Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson~

'Tis better to have loved and lost,
than to have never loved at all.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson~

I am a part of all that
I have met.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson~

Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

I am a little pencil
in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter
to the world.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

I have found the paradox
that if I love until it hurts,
then there is no hurt,
but only more love.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

God speaks
in the silence of the heart.
Listening is the
beginning of prayer.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

It is a poverty to decide 
that a child must die 
so that you may live as you wish.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

Joy is very infectious;
therefore, be always full of joy.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

Let no one ever come to you
without leaving better and happier.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

Do not wait for leaders;
do it alone,
person to person.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

I know God will not give me anything
I can't handle. I just wish that
He didn't trust me so much.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

Smile at each other,
smile at your wife, smile at your husband,
smile at your children, smile at each other --
it doesn't matter who it is --
and that will help you to grow up
in greater love for each other.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

If faith is lacking,
it is because there is too much selfishness,
too much concern for personal gain.
For faith to be true,
it has to be generous and loving.
Love and faith go together,
they complete each other.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

We shall never know all the good
that a simple smile can do.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

It is easy to love the people far away.
It is not always easy to love those close to us.
It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger
than to relieve the loneliness and
pain of someone unloved in our own home.
Bring love into your home
for this is where our love for
each other must start.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

To keep a lamp burning
we have to keep putting oil in it.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

We cannot all do great things,
but we can do small things with great love.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

What can you do to promote world peace?
Go home and love your family.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

Spread love everywhere you go:
First of all in your own house...
let no one ever come to you without
leaving better and happier. Be the
living expression of God's kindness;
kindness in your face,
kindness in your eyes,
kindness in your smile,
kindness in your warm greeting.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

Be faithful in small things
because it is in them that your strength lies.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

People are unreasonable, illogical,
and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good,
people may accuse you
of selfish motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful,
you may win false friends
and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today
may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and transparency
make you vulnerable.
Be honest and
transparent anyway.
What you spend years building
may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People who really want help
may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.
Give the world the best you have
and you may get hurt.
Give the world your best
anyway.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

We need to find God, 
and He cannot be found in noise 
and restlessness. 
God is the friend of silence. 
See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--
grows in silence; 
see the stars, the moon and the sun, 
how they move in silence..
.we need silence to be able to touch souls.
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu~

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. 
They are every human being's entitlement 
by virtue of his humanity. 
The right to life does not depend, 
and must not be contingent, 
on the pleasure of anyone else, 
not even a parent or sovereign. ... 
You must weep that your own government, 
at present, seems blind to this truth. 
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu~

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness 
than work miracles in unkindness. 
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu~

If you can't feed a hundred people, 
then feed just one. 
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu~

If you judge people, 
you have no time to love them. 
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu~

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, 
but their echoes are truly endless. 
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu~ 

Love is a fruit in season at all times, 
and within the reach of every hand. 
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu~ 

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion 
because if a mother can kill her own child, 
what is left for me to kill you 
and you to kill me? 
There is nothing between. 
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu~

Words which do not give the light of Christ 
increase the darkness. 
~Mother Teresa....Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu~ 

Steve Tesich

No birth certificate is issued when friendship is born. 
There is nothing tangible. There is just a feeling 
that your life is different and that your capacity to love 
and care has miraculously been enlarged 
with out any effort on your part. 
It's like having a tiny apartment 
and somebody moves in with you. 
But instead of becoming cramped and crowded, 
the space expands, and you discover rooms 
you never knew you had 
until your friend moved in with you. 
~Steve Tesich~ 

William Makepeace Thackeray

Under the magnetism of friendship 
the modest man becomes bold; 
the shy, confident; 
the lazy, active; 
and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful. 
~William Makepeace Thackeray~

'Tis not the dying for a faith 
that's so hard, Master Harry -- 
every man of every nation has done that -- 
'tis the living up to it that's difficult. 
~William Makepeace Thackeray~

Margaret Thatcher

Standing in the middle of the road 
is very dangerous; 
you get knocked down by the traffic 
from both sides. 
~Margaret Thatcher~ 

Phyllis Theroux

To send a letter
is a good way to go somewhere
without moving anything but your heart.
~Phyllis Theroux~

Danny Thomas.

All of us are born for a reason, 
but all of us don't discover why. 
Success in life has nothing to do with 
what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. 
It's what you do for others.
~Danny Thomas~

Joann Thomas

Sometimes the best helping hand you can give
is a good, firm push.
~Joann Thomas~

Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
~Henry David Thoreau~

We should distrust any enterprise
that requires new clothes.
~Henry David Thoreau~

The price of anything is the amount
of life you exchange for it.
~Henry David Thoreau~

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~Henry David Thoreau~

If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation
in every disappointment.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Associate reverently,
and as much as you can,
with your loftiest thoughts.
~Henry David Thoreau~

As a single footstep will not
make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not
make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path,
we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path,
we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts
we wish to dominate our lives.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Beware of all enterprises that require
new clothes.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Water is the only drink for a wise man.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Gardening is civil and social,
but it wants the vigor and freedom
of the forest and the outlaw.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Experience is in the fingers and head.
The heart is inexperienced.
~Henry David Thoreau~

True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
~Henry David Thoreau~

A truly good book teaches me better
than to read it.
I must soon lay it down,
and commence living on its hint....
What I began by reading,
I must finish by acting.
~Henry David Thoreau~

As if you could kill time
without injuring eternity.
~Henry David Thoreau~

The language of friendship is not words
but meanings.
~Henry David Thoreau~

I know of no more encouraging fact
than the unquestionable ability of man
to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
~Henry David Thoreau~

There is no value in life except
what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place
except what you bring to it yourself.
~Henry David Thoreau~

It is a characteristic of wisdom
not to do desperate things.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Go confidently in the direction
of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined.
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe
will be simpler.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Our life is frittered away by detail... 
Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... 
Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.
~Henry David Thoreau~

I have learned,
that if one advances confidently 
in the direction of his dreams 
and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, 
he will meet with a success 
unexpected in common hours.
~Henry David Thoreau~

Dreams are the touchstones 
of our character. 
~Henry David Thoreau~

I have received no more than one or two 
letters in my life that were worth the postage. 
~Henry David Thoreau~

I never found a companion 
that was so companionable as solitude. 
~Henry David Thoreau~

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. 
~Henry David Thoreau~

Nature is slow, but sure; 
she works no faster than need be; 
she is the tortoise that wins the race 
by her perseverance. 
~Henry David Thoreau~ 

Things do not change; we change. 
~Henry David Thoreau~

We are sometimes made aware of 
a kindness long passed, 
and realize that there have been times 
when our friends' thoughts of us 
were of so pure and lofty a character 
that they passed over us like the winds 
of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us 
not as what we were, 
but as what we aspired to be. 
~Henry David Thoreau~ 

James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger,
nor forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
~James Thurber~

Howard Thurman

Commitment means that it is possible for a man 
to yield the nerve center of his consent 
to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, 
which may be more important to him 
than whether he lives or dies. 
~Howard Thurman~ 

Frank Tibolt

We should be taught not to wait 
for inspiration to start a thing. 
Action always generates inspiration. 
Inspiration seldom generates action. 
~Frank Tibolt~ 

Paul Johannes Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen.
~Paul Johannes Tillich~

Language has created 
the word "loneliness" to express 
the pain of being alone, 
and the word "solitude" to express 
the glory of being alone. 
~Paul Johannes Tillich~

Time.com in an article about Person of the Week: 
Gen. Tommy Franks

Franks has been exactly 
what this war effort has required: 
Insistently realistic, never gloating, 
understated about victory and reassuringly honest 
about its inevitable costs. 
Throw in a touch of folksiness, 
some of the aw-shucks 
collar-tugging of an old artillery man 
blinking in the spotlight's white glare, 
and you have a fine war hero indeed. 
A real general, 
with real American soldiers 
on the ground under his command, 
— who realizes how fragile and 
precious a cargo that is.... 
~Time.com in an article about Person of the Week: 
Gen. Tommy Franks~ 

Harry Moyle Tippett

The Pilgrims came to America 
not to accumulate riches but to worship God, 
and the greatest wealth they left unborn generations 
was their heroic example of sacrifice 
that their souls might be free. 
~Harry Moyle Tippett~

Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de Tocquevill

Democracy and socialism 
have nothing in common but one word, 
equality. But notice the difference: 
while democracy seeks equality in liberty, 
socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. 
~Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de Tocqueville~

Alexis de Tocqueville

We succeed in enterprises which demand 
the positive qualities we possess, 
but we excel in those which can also 
make use of our defects. 
~Alexis de Tocqueville~

Eckhart Tolle

Where ever you are, be there totally. 
~Eckhart Tolle~

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, 
but no one thinks of changing himself. 
~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy~ 

Henry Tor

Enthusiasm is the yeast 
that makes your hopes rise to the stars. 
Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, 
the swing in your gait, 
the grip of your hand, 
the irresistible surge of will and energy 
to excite your ideas. 
~Henry Tor~

Brian Tracy

The more you seek security, 
the less of it you have. 
But the more you seek opportunity, 
the more likely it is that you will achieve 
the security that you desire. 
~Brian Tracy~

You cannot control what happens to you, 
but you can control your attitude toward 
what happens to you, and in that, 
you will be mastering change 
rather than allowing it to master you. 
~Brian Tracy~

Tini Tran

Sir Galahad's precious cargo - 
100 tons of water and 150 tons 
of rice, lentils, cooking oil, tomato paste, 
chick peas, sugar, powdered milk, and tea 
stacked from floor to ceiling in the ship's hold - 
is the first massive shipment of aid to reach Iraq. 
Medical supplies, blankets and ration packs also are aboard. 
The British ship takes its name from Sir Galahad, 
the hero of King Arthur's round table 
who was renowned as being 
the noblest and purest of knights. 
~Tini Tran~ 

Arthur Trudeau

Character is the final decision to reject 
whatever is demeaning to oneself 
or to others and with confidence and 
honesty choose what is right. 
~Arthur Trudeau~ 

Elton Trueblood

Faith is not belief without proof, 
but trust without reservation. 
~Elton Trueblood~ 

Harry S. Truman

We must have strong minds,
ready to accept facts as they are.
~Harry S. Truman~

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties 
of his opportunities and an optimist is one who 
makes opportunities of his difficulties. 
~Harry Truman~

In reading the lives of great men, 
I found that the first victory 
they won was over themselves... 
self-discipline with all of them came first. 
~Harry S. Truman~ 

It is amazing what you can accomplish 
if you do not care who gets the credit. 
~Harry S. Truman~ 

The absence of war is not peace. 
~Harry S. Truman~ 

When the decision is up before you-- 
and on my desk I have a motto which says 
"The buck stops here"-- 
the decision has to be made. 
~Harry S. Truman~ 

Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. 
Without books, history is silent, 
literature dumb, science crippled, 
thought and speculation at a standstill. 
They are engines of change, 
windows on the world, 
lighthouses erected in the sea of time. 
~Barbara W. Tuchman~ 

Dale Turner

If our vocabulary did not contain the words 
trouble, adversity, calamity and grief, 
it could not contain the words, 
bravery, patience and self-sacrifice. 
Those who know no hardships 
will know no hardihood. 
Those who face no calamity 
will need no courage. 
Mysterious though it is, 
the human characteristics we admire most 
grow in a soil with a strong mixture of trouble. 
~Dale Turner~

It is the highest form of self-respect 
to admit our errors and mistakes 
and make amends for them. 
To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, 
but to adhere to it when it is discovered 
shows infirmity of character. 
~Dale Turner~ 

Art Turock

There's a difference between interest and commitment. 
When you're interested in doing something, 
you do it only when circumstance permit. 
When you're committed to something, 
you accept no excuses, only results. 
~Art Turock~ 

~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

It is curious 
that physical courage should be 
so common in the world 
and moral courage so rare.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. 
Truth isn't.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

The difference between the right word
and the almost right word is
the difference between lightning
and a lightning bug.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

The best way to cheer yourself up
is to try to cheer somebody else up.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

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....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Whenever you find yourself
on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

I am pushing sixty.
That is enough exercise for me.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Why is it that
we rejoice at a birth
and grieve at a funeral?
Is it because we are not
the person involved?
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

It is curious that physical courage
should be so common in the world
and moral courage so rare.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

When you ascend the hill of prosperity,
may you not meet a friend.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

If you tell the truth,
you don't have to remember anything.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

It is not best that we all should think alike,
it is differences of opinion that make horse races.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Keep away from people who try
to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, 
but the really great make you feel that you, too,
can become great.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Kindness is the language
which the deaf can hear
and the blind can see.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

All say,
"How hard it is that we have to die" -
a strange complaint to come
from the mouths of people
who have had to live.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

I'm quite sure that ...
I have no race prejudices,
and I think I have no color prejudices
nor caste prejudices
nor creed prejudices.
Indeed, I know it.
I can stand any society.
All that I care to know is that a man is
a human being--that is enough for me
he can't be any worse.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

The time to begin writing an article 
is when you have finished it to your satisfaction.
By that time you begin to clearly and logically 
perceive what it is you really want to say.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Twenty years from now 
you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do 
than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

We should be careful to get out of an experience
only the wisdom that is in it and stop there;
lest we be like the cat that sits on a hot stove-lid;
he will never sit on a hot stove-lid again--
and that is well; but also she will never
sit on a cold one anymore.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella
when the sun is shining, but wants it back
the minute it begins to rain.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Do something every day 
that you don't want to do;
this is the golden rule for acquiring 
the habit of doing your duty without pain.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Good breeding consists of 
concealing how much
we think of ourselves 
and how little we think
of the other person.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

It is better to keep your mouth closed 
and let people think you are a fool 
than to open it and remove all doubt.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

I am opposed to millionaires,
but it would be dangerous
to offer me the position.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

I have never let my schooling 
interfere with my education.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

To get the full value of joy
you must have someone to divide it with.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Love: The irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

True love is the only heart disease
that is best left to "run on"--
the only affection of the heart for which
there is no help, and none desired.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

It is better to deserve honors
and not have them than to have them
and not deserve them.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

The right word may be effective,
but no word was ever as effective
as a rightly timed pause.
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

In Boston they ask,
how much does he know?
In New York,
how much is he worth?
In Philadelphia,
who were his parents?
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

Good friends, good books
and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
~Mark Twain~

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. 
No man or woman really knows what perfect love is 
until they have been married a quarter of a century. 
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~ 

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, 
not to its institutions or its office-holders. 
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~

There are some books 
that refuse to be written. 
They stand their ground year after year 
and will not be persuaded. 
It isn't because the book is not there 
and worth being written -- 
it is only because the right form of the story 
does not present itself. 
There is only one right form for a story 
and if you fail to find that form 
the story will not tell itself. 
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~ 

Work and play are words used to describe 
the same thing under differing conditions. 
~Mark Twain....Samuel Langhorne Clemens~ 

Howard Twilley

When I was younger, 
I thought that the key to success 
was just hard work. 
But the real foundation is faith. 
Faith--the idea that "I can do it"--
is the opposite of fear ("What if I fail?"). 
And faith creates motivation which in turn 
leads to commitment, hard work, preparation ... 
and eventually success. 
~Howard Twilley~

song playing....White Rabbit

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