The Small and the Great

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

The Business of Heaven

Joy is the serious business of heaven.

C.S.Lewis

A Know-it-All

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Wooden

Becoming

It’s not what you are doing but what you are becoming.

Strong, Rich, Learned, Integrity

It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Frances Bacon

It's Just Not

It’s not rocket surgery.

A Happy Childhood

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.

Love Thy Neighbor

It's easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

Eric Hoffer

When to Quit

It’s always too soon to quit.

V. Raymond Edman

Building on Rock

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

Madeleine L'Engle

Faith and Faithfulness

Researchers at Florida State University set up an experiment to explore prayer and fidelity. Their findings are published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The conclusion: people worried about potentially cheating spouses may find praying together a better safeguard against adultery than constant vigilance. The researchers believe that the act of praying about romantic partners leads people to view their relationship as something sacred and not to be damaged.

Stephen Goforth

Becoming You

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e.e. cummings

In Change There is Power

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen