Tomorrow

Everything I Do...
Everything I say...
Changes the world in some small way.
...Am I making it better?...

What will I do today that will matter tomorrow?

Smile

"If you're not using your smile,
you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook."
Les Giblin

Hero

"A hero is someone who has given his or her life
to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength
to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
Christopher Reeve

Muisc to my ears

"Music is only love looking for words."
Lawrence Durrell

mental wellness

"The ability to be in the present moment
is a major component of mental wellness."
Abraham Maslow

The Now

"There is never time in the future
in which we will work out our salvation.
The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
James Baldwin

Virtue

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
—George Washington

"How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey
if you take the road to another man's city?"
Thomas Merton

The Great Debaters

We do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do.

Dr. Mardy Grothe

"If you want to have love in your life,
don't forget to put some life in your love."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth."

Virginia Woolf

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people."

Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Thomas Carlyle

"If what you have done is unjust,
you have not succeeded."

Rita Mae Brown

"If the world were a logical place
men would ride side-saddle"

Henry Ward Beecher

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without
springs; jolted by every pebble in the road."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures."

Charles Bukowski

"My ambition is handicapped by my laziness."

"Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality."

"Of course, it's possible to love a human being--
if you don't know them too well."

"If you're losing your soul and you know it,
then you've still got a soul left to lose."

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way.
An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."

Wayne Gretzsky "The Great One"

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you
never take."

Edith Wharton

"There are two ways of spreading light:
to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it."

Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.
 The weak can never forgive." 
   

Peaceful Warrior

Socrates: I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles
we fight are on the inside
Dan Millman: The journey is what brings us happiness not
the destination
Dan Millman: The ones who are hardest to love are usually
the ones who need it the most.

The Illusionist

Eisenheim: i thought we might end this evening with a discussion
of the soul. All of the greatest religions speak of the soul’s
endurance before the end of life. So what then does it mean to die? Eisenheim: From the moment we enter this live we are in the flow of it. We measure it and We mock it, but we cannot defy it. We cannot even speed it up or slow it down. Or can we? Have we not each experienced the sensation that a beautiful moment seemed to pass to quickly, and wished that we could make it linger? Or felt time slow on a dull day, and wished that we could speed things up a bit?

American History X

Danny Vinyard: So I guess this is where I tell you what I learned
- my conclusion, right? Well, my conclusion is: Hate is baggage. Life's too
short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. Derek says it's
always good to end a paper with a quote. He says someone else has already
said it best. So if you can't top it, steal from them and go out strong.
So I picked a guy I thought you'd like. 'We are not enemies, but friends.
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must
not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will
swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.'

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Own only what you can carry with you; know language,
know countries, know people. Let your memory be
your travel bag.

Ingrid Bengi

For me, words are a form of action, capable of
influencing change.

Edward Cole Bucket List

Here's something to remember when you're older
Thomas - never pass up a bathroom, never waste a
hard-on, and never trust a fart.

Bucket List - Edward Cole

You measure yourself by the people who measure
themselves by you.

Albert Schweitzer

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame
by an encounter with another human being.  We should all be thankful for those
people who rekindle the inner spirit.