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Colton on Contentment

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:08 — patricia

"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."

— Charles Caleb Colton

Power on Dreams

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

— J.M. Power

Mann on God's Dream

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates."

— Stella Terrill Mann

Discouraged By a Failure

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."

— John Keats

Aiming for Goals

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."

— Arnold Toynbee

Only True Happiness

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

— William Cowper

Addisono on True Happiness

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

— Joseph Addison

Keller on True Happiness

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

— Helen Keller

Dreams Come True

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

— John Updike

Martin Luther King on Equality

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Dreams Coming True

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't."

— Brett Butler

Schiller on Dreams

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 20:07 — patricia

"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth."

— Friedrich von Schiller
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