Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Common sense is the genius of humanity."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life."

Epicurus

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Norman Vincent Peale

"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship."

Gottfried Leibniz

"Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnec-
tion of all things with one another."

Francis Bacon

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."

The Book of Joshua

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified, do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go." (Joshua 1:9)

Mahatma Gandhi

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Emile Coue

"Think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so."

Abraham Lincoln

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

Martin Buber

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."

Thomas Carlyle

"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

William James

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

Meister Eckhart

"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

Plato

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Sir Winston Churchill

"If you're going through hell, keep going!"

T.S. Eliot

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

The Buddha

"The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task."

--The Buddha

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life consists in what a man is thinking about all day."

Bertrand Russell

"Boredom is . . . a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

Confucius

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."