Blaise Pascal

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

The Talmud

"Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'"

Golda Meir

"Don't be humble; you're not that great."

Emily Dickinson

"Life is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

Francis Bacon

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."

Albert Camus

"Freedom is not a reward or decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh, no! It's a long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting."

Henry Miller

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unprece-
dented act without the benefit of experience."

Anais Nin

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to our courage."

Simone Weil

"Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light, that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul."

Albert Einstein

"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

e. e. cummings

"Be of love a little more careful than of anything."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose ~ a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

Padre Pio

"Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."