"If you don't control your life, someone else will." -John Atkinson

"No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning." -Barbara De Angelis

"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by." -Annie Dillard, (The Writing Life)

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscience effort." -Henry David Thoreau

"Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation." -Laura Schlessinger Ph.D

"A human being feels able and competent only so long as he is permitted to contribute as much as, or more, than he has contributed to him." -Elbert Hubbard

"I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I woke and saw that life was Duty. I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy." -Rabinranath Tagore (Nobel Prize-winning Poet)

"The nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly like pearls slipping off a string." -Lucy M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." -Ray Bradbury

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." -Galileo

"There is an Indian Belief that everyone is in a house of four rooms: A physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete." -Rumer Godden (House of Four Rooms)

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