Archives
Categories
- Making a Difference (40)
- News of Courage (26)
- Quotes (79)
- Stories that make a Difference (16)
-
The latest…
Topics
- 9/11
- act
- art
- autism
- beads
- bravery
- Buddha
- california
- cancer
- car
- cause
- change
- children
- choice
- coffee
- compassion
- confidence
- courage
- Dalai Lama
- dollar
- dream
- encourage
- example
- experience
- family
- fear
- feed
- fire
- food
- friend
- friendship
- garden
- give
- giving
- happiness
- happy
- health
- heart
- help
- hero
- high school
- homeless
- hope
- horse
- hospice
- humanity
- hungry
- inspire
- insurance
- John Wayne
- kids
- kindness
- life
- light
- Love
- Mark Twain
- military
- mistake
- necessities
- new
- news
- plant
- politics
- poor
- postaday2011
- postaweek2012
- rescue
- school
- share
- shine
- strength
- strive
- TACA
- teen
- train
Search this blog
One Lovely Blog Award
Versatile Blogger Award
Candle Lighter Award- 2011
7×7 Award
365 Days of Courage
-
Blog visits
- 4,815 hits
Category Archives: Quotes
Long term friends
“Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don’t regard others as strangers.” Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai … Continue reading
Astound yourself
“If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” Thomas Edison (1847-1931) – American inventor and businessman
The courage of our questions
“We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.” Carl Sagan (1934-1996) American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science educator in astronomy and natural sciences
Love deeply
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu – Chinese Taoist Philosopher (600 BC)
Care a whole awful lot….
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not!” Dr. Seuss (1904-1991), American writer, poet, and cartoonist- from The Lorax
See the need and respond
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I … Continue reading
Applaude the good
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn – US (Polish-born) movie producer (1882 – 1974)
Draw your family circle
“The problem with the world is that we draw our family circle too small.” Mother Teresa – founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India -(1910 – 1997)
Kindness now
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. “ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)- American essayist, lecturer, and poet
Your mission on earth
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” Richard Bach (born 1936) American writer, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull