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Opportunity/Possibility

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from  now and make a brand new ending." ~ Carl Bard 
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the 'atomic age' - as in being able to remake ourselves." ~ Gandhi 
"Even in the bleakest times there are gifts to be discovered." ~ Jann Mitchell 
"Always have faith in yourself.  It is not easy to live life sometimes and face the world with a smile when you're crying inside.  It takes a lot of courage to reach down inside yourself.  Hold on to that strength that's still there and know that tomorrow is a new day with new possibilities.  If you can just hold on long enough to see this through, you'll come out a new person - stronger, with more understanding and with a new pride in yourself from knowing you made it." ~ Kathy Obara 
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."  ~ Nido Qubein 
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."  ~ Seneca 
"It’s never too late – in fiction or in life – to revise."  ~ Nancy Thayer 
"Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us."  ~ Pierre ElliottTrudeau 
"Dreams are renewable.  No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." ~ Dale E. Turner
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." ~ John Hoyer Updike

Choice and Faith

Choice

"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”  ~ Kofi Annan 
“Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there.  What you choose to do with them is up to you.  ~ Richard Bach 
We can become bitter or better as a result of our experiences."  ~ Eric Butterworth 
“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.”  ~ Stephen R. Covey 
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”  ~ Joanne
Kathleen Rowling 

Faith

"Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
Come to the edge.
No, we will fall.
They came to the edge.
He pushed them, and they flew."  ~ Apollinaire 
“Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of faith is to see what we believe.”  ~ St. Augustine
"Surrender control to the supreme wisdom and authority of God and to the Divine in your soul.  Step into the void with courage.  Learn to say, "I don't know."  That's not blind faith.  It's pure faith that will allow God and your spirit to lead you wherever your soul wants and needs to go." ~ Melody Beattie 
"Faith is not something to grasp.  It is a state to grow into." ~ Gandhi 
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. 

"When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly"  ~ Patrick Overton 
"Faith is like love:  it cannot be forced." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer 
"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." ~ Rabindranath
Tagore
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations." 
~ Elton Trueblood
"Vision looks upward and becomes faith."  ~Stephen S. Wise 

Happiness

Happiness

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul." ~ Aristotle 
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." ~ Henry Ward Beecher 
"What is happiness and unhappiness?  It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person.  I am grateful for every day... and that makes me happy." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer 
"Earth laughs in flowers." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 
"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight on you." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne 
"Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.”  ~ Vernon Howard 
"It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves."  ~ Helen Keller 
"You don't become happy by pursuing happiness.  You become happy by living a life that means something."  ~ Harold S. Kushner 



"Realize that true happiness lies within you.  Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.  Remember that there is no happiness in getting, but only in giving.  Reach out.  Share.  Smile.  Hug.  Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."  ~ Og Mandino 
"Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it.  They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.”  ~ Orison S. Marden 
"Realize that if you want joy in your soul, you will have to choose to bring it there."  ~ Joseph J. Mazzella 
"Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind."
~ Alice Meynell 
"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats." ~ Iris Murdoc 
"To be happy is easy enough if we forgive ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving.  No self-centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy.  Life is giving, not getting." ~ Joseph Fort Newton 
"The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. First of all, happiness must be shared. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one’s self. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience." ~ William Ogden 
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet."
~ James Oppenheim
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."  ~ Agnes Repplier 
"Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves.  It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire.  Happiness is something we are."
~ John B. Sheerin 



"Happiness is a warm puppy." ~ Charles Schulz
"It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world.  Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him."
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."  ~ Mother Teresa
"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour." ~ Unknown 
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." ~ Denis Waitley