Food for Thought
               

  Just some food for thought:

On Life:

"You're only here for a short visit.  Don't hurry.  Don't worry.  And be sure to smell the flowers along the way." --Walter C. Hagen

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday.  You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity." --Barbara De Angelis

"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little." --Montaigne

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." --George Bernard Shaw

On Trust:

"The best proof of love is trust." --Joyce Brothers

"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." --Frank Crane

"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it." --Goethe 

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Choice:

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.  It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." --William Jennings Bryan

"Choose your love, Love your choice." --Thomas S. Monson

"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength."  --Hasidic saying

"Make decisions from the heart and use your head to make it work out." --Sir Girad

On Learning:

"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten days of contentment." --Merle Shain

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." --Dale Carnegie

"We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined not to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process." --Ted W. Engstrom

"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes.  The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future." --Dale Turner

On Self-Image:

"The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." --Mahatma Gandhi

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." --Doris Mortman

"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself." --Barbara De Angelis

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich." --Tao Te Ching

On Love:

"Forgiveness is the final form of love." --Reinhold Niebuhr 

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom." --Charles Dickens

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present." --Barbara De Angelis

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." --Henry Drummond

"For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it." --Ivan Panin