"Enjoy your life without comparing it with that of another" - Marquis de Condorcet

"It is not ours to seperate, the tangled skein of will and fate" - John Greenleaf Whittier

"The future is no more uncertain than the present" - Walt Whitman

"There is no good arguing with the inevitable.  The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat" - James Russell Lowell

"This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin" - John Greenleaf
Whittier

"The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun, the brightness of our life is gone" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"One chose my time,
And I must live it.
One gave me gifts,
So I must give it.
To sit and ponder,
For what reason.
The answer comes
In its due season.
So watch my soul,
And let us see.
To know my heart
And let it be"  -Mark Abbott (Choctaw)

"Let us then be up and doing with a heart for any fate" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The heart has its arguments, with which the understanding is not acquainted" -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it" - Jean de la Fontaine

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes" - Marcel Proust

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden" - Goethe

"Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world; shapes that bring the world into focus, corral ideas, hone thoughts. They paint watercolors of perception" - Diane Ackerman

"We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree" - Pablo Casals

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible" - Jonathon Swift

"We all live under the same sky, but we dont all have the same horizon" - Konrad Adenauer

"Some things have to be believed to be seen" - Ralph Hodgson

"Never a daisy grows but a mystery guides the growing" - Richard
Realf

"Words are the clothes that thoughts wear" - Ronald Geller

"In the end, the poem is not a thing we see, it is, rather, a light by which we may see- and what we see is life" - Robert Penn Warren

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" - Mark Twain

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it" - Langston Hughes

"Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child" - Laurens Van Der Post

"The sky pulled a dark sheet over us and pinned it with stars" - Bryce
Courtenay

"If at first you dont succeed, deny you were even trying" - Irv Kupcinet

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is because man is disunited with himself" - Emerson

"But only in their dreams can men be truly free.  Has always been thus, and always thus will be" - Dead Poet's Society