"Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!"

Le Mon, Cal on Assertiveness
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"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account."

Euripides on Attitude
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"The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others."

Bower, Sharon Anthony on Assertiveness
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"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal."

Anspacher, Louis K. on Marriage
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"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on Friends and Friendship
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"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures"

Addison Joseph on
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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

Orwell, George on Liberty
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"Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."

Unknown, Source on Vision
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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."

Socrates on Death and Dying
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"The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."

Ouida on Absence
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"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

Erasmus, Desiderius on Habit
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"The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men."

Erasmus, Desiderius on Fools and Foolishness
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"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

Roux, Joseph on Experience
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"Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash."

Aragon, Louis on Opposites
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"There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him."

Miller, Henry on Fear
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"The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal."

Miller, Henry on Dreams
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"The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself."

Miller, Henry on Enemies
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"No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance."

Miller, Henry on Destiny
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"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

Mandino, Og on Happiness
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"Only the insecure strive for security."

Dyer, Wayne on Security
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"A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

Shaw, George Bernard on Dance and Dancing
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"We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on Dance and Dancing
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"And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."

Gregory, Dick on Dance and Dancing
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"Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion."

Graham, Martha on Dance and Dancing
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"She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words"

Ford, Corey on Flirting
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"I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts."

Byron, Lord on Dissent
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"Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues."

Neruda, Pablo on Love Ended
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"The Eighth of September

This day, Today, was a brimming glass.
This day, Today, was an immense wave.
This day was all the Earth.

This day, the storm-driven ocean
lifted us up in a kiss
so exalted we trembled
at the lightning flash
and bound as one, fell,
and drowned, without being unbound.

This day our bodies grew
stretched out to Earth's limits,
orbited there, melded there
to one globe of wax, or a meteor's flame.

A strange door opened, between us,
and someone, with no face as yet,
waited for us there."

Neruda, Pablo on Wonder
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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on Love
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"My Soul is Heavy Laden with Its Fruits: Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking"

Gibran, Kahlil on
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"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

Gibran, Kahlil on Faith
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"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. "

Fosdick, Henry Emerson on
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"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."

Thucydides on Ignorance
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Change
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"If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place."

Bellin, Gita on Change
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"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

Mill, John Stuart on Conservatives
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"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."

Mill, John Stuart on Opinions
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"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."

Mill, John Stuart on Eccentricity
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"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

Mill, John Stuart on Dissent
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