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Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation. –Cherrie Moraga

A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart. –Author Unknown

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4646774

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. –Charles Kuralt

http://www.helpothers.org/story.php?sid=9190

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. –Lao Tzu

http://www.sekoyamag.com/nouveausite/SPIP/breve.php3?id_breve=536

But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. –Thomas Paine

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2007-05-10-honda-fuel-cell_N.htm

We are blessed — or cursed — to live with each other. And I prefer the first. –Daniel Barenboim

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944235.html

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life. –Jean Arp

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/st_thompson

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. –Mark Twain

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0613/p09s01-coop.html

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. –Abraham Lincoln

http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/54/the-gospel-according-to-adam-smith/all

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. –William James

http://www.kentucky.com/211/story/420950.html

Some men see things as they are and say, ‘Why?’ Others dream of things that never were and say, ‘Why not?’ –George Bernard Shaw

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/11/60minutes/main1611936.shtml

Let him who would move the world first move himself. –Socrates

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061202112_pf.html

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. –Greg Anderson

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=413

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking. –Mariannne Williamson

http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/reviews/2005-11-27-resonant-book-usat_x.htm

If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that — then that will take you as far as you can go. –Pema Chodron

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/fostering_high_quality_connections/

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. –Seneca

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91692169

One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything. –Georg C. Lichtenberg

http://www.charityfocus.org/blog/view.php?id=1880

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. –Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/achieving_breakthrough_performance/

We can’t change the cards we’re dealt, just how to play the hand. –Randy Pausch

http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121701813179885643.html