just a few nice quotes I found ( Archived) (22)

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.
–William E. Gladstone

To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.
–Leo Buscaglia

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
–George Bernard Shaw

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
–Dan Millman

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
–Thomas Carlyle

Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons.
–Ann Ruth Schabaker

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
–George Bernard Shaw

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
–Albert Einstein

When I take on a new problem, I'm not interested in how it's been done before. I only want to know, of all the constraints people tend to assume, which ones are actually fundamental and which ones are just habit?
–Jeff Bonwick, Sun Microsystems

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.
–Clement of Alexandria

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
–William Adams

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
–Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
–Buckminster Fuller

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
–Jonathan Winters

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
–Harold B. Melchart

Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait... and peace will appear.
–Guy Finley

"The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy."
–Benjamin E. Mayes

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action."
–Henry Miller

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
–Henry Miller

"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
—Sir Josiah Stamp

BUBBLY - oh how brilliant to see you
I have been meaning to write back - not been around much myself of late

I thought you had already done the Greece trip - silly me - I cant keep up with your travels

so true Matt

awww Nightingale, Im touched - Thank YOU