motivational quotes and pictures

Tears are Summer showers to the soul. ~Alfred Austin, Savonarola



Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. ~George Bernard Shaw



Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights.... Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven. ~William T. Piper



Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. ~Edwin Keith



Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. ~Dandemis



The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals. ~Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead



While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings. ~Dave Barry



A passion, an obsession, a romance, a nice acquaintanceship with trees, sand, and water. ~Bob Ryan



Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836



He was the only man I ever saw who ran his own interference. ~Steve Owen, about Bronko Nagurski



I skip to the heartbeat of my angel. ~Astrid Alauda



When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The truth needs so little rehearsal. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



A smile can brighten the darkest day. ~Author Unknown



People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. ~Chris Adams



Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. ~Walter Cronkite



A man's kiss is his signature. ~Mae West



Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men. ~Theodore Roosevelt



Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life, 1977



My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms - will it return to my body when they scatter? ~Kotomichi