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Would never turn to day Who said the winter's bleakness Would never pass away
Who said the fog would never lift
Why should we ever entertain
When we know beyond all questioning
For no one sheds a teardrop
And every burden born today
"Cherish every wish in your heart, however trivial it may seem." "A poet is someone who is astonished by everything." -Anon "Poetry is what gets lost in translation." -Robert Frost "I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world." -Russell Baker "Vigny, more secret As if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon." N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. -Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Pensees d'Aout "A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm, arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland." -Kahlil Gibran, "The Poet of Baalbek" "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." -Don Marquis "Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gumble song, Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before." -Shel Silverstein "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." -Charles Simic Some of the most popular books on Poetry are: 1. Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Book and 3 Audio CDs) -- by Elise Paschen (Editor), Rebekah Presson Mosby (Editor); 2. The Best American Poetry 2002 (Best American Poetry (Paper)) -- by Robert Creeley, David Lehman (Editor);
3. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
(8th Edition) -- by X. J. Kennedy (Editor), Dana Gioia (Editor); "I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are." -Milton Berle "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." -Albert Camus "Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow." -Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore" "The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers." -Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore" "An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather." -Washington Irving "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." -Helen Keller "A will finds a way." -Orison Swett Marden "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." -Reinhold Niebuhr "She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world." -Adlai Stevenson, Eulogy of Eleanor Roosevelt, November 7, 1962 "Every exit is an entry somewhere." -Tom Stoppard "The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windemere's Fan" "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Ziggy Some Famous Books on Attitude are: 1. Attitude Is Everything: Change Your Attitude... and You Change Your Life -- by Jeff Keller; 2. Literacy With an Attitude: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest -- by Patrick J. Finn;
3. Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude -- by Napoleon
Hill, W. Clement Stone; A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it." -Anon "We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd." -Anon "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." -William Blake "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Les Brown "You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do." -Henry Ford "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -Anatole France "The best way out is always through." -Robert Frost "Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." -Oscar Wilde "Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -David Lloyd George "Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood." -Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom" "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes "An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition." -Michael Korda "The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen." -Robert L. Schwartz "The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." -Harold Taylor "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 "If you can imagine it, You can achieve it. If you can dream it, You can become it." -William Arthur Ward Some famous Books on Ambition are: 1.Grand Ambition: A Novel by Lisa Michaels [Amazon corp..] 2.A Rage of Ambition by Helen Foley, J. Allen Kirsch (Editor) 3.Burning Ambition by Margaret Thomson, Margaret Thomson Davis 4.Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982-1988 (Poets on Poetry) - by Donald Hall (Paperback - August 1988) 5.Ambition by Julie Burchill (out of print now..limited copies only available all over)
6.Ocean of Ambition by Ikam-Anthony Igbojekwe ((out of print now..limited
copies only available all over) "You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." -Anon. "If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were." -Anon. "Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything." -Anon.
"Ama me fideliter! Fidem meam noto: De corde totaliter Et ex mente
tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota."
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"Love me faithfully! "Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up." -James Baldwin "Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." -James Baldwin "Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life." -Smiley Blanton "The best proof of love is trust." -Joyce Brothers "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -H. Jackson Brown Jr. "We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together." -La Bruyere "Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." -Leo Buscaglia "Where there is great love, there are always wishes." -Willa Cather
"A relationship is like a rose, "Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -Charles Caleb Colton "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life." -Joseph Conrad "Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin "Love builds bridges where there are none." -R. H. Delaney "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." -Benjamin Disraeli
"Come live with me, and be my love, "You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." -Henry Drummond
"Footfalls echo in the memory "The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." -Albert Ellis "All mankind loves a lover." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do." -Nan Fairbrother "In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." -Erich Fromm "Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" -Erich Fromm "Where there is love there is life." -Mahatma Gandhi "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." -Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision" "Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so." -David Grayson "There is only one terminal dignity -- love." -Helen Hayes "The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." -Victor Hugo "Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." -Javan "The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed." -J. Krishnamurti "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao-Tzu "The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life." -Lydia Maria Child "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished." -Og Mandino "Do all things with love." -Og Mandino "The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." -Anais Nin "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." -Plato "We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection." -Sidney Poitier "There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not." -La Rochefoucauld "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." -Bertrand Russell "Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are." -Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve "I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it." -Kyle Schmidt "Love means never having to say you're sorry." -Erich Segal
"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." -Stendhal "To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be." -Anna Louise Strong "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Theresa
"Nunc scio quit sit amor." Some Popular Books on Love: 1. The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate -- by Gary Chapman 2. Parenting With Love and Logic : Teaching Children Responsibility -- by Foster W. Cline, Jim Fay 3. A Love of My Own -- by E. Lynn Harris 4. Kama Sutra of Sexual Positions: The Tantric Art of Love by Kenneth Ray Stubbs 5. The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival by Mona Golabek, Lee Cohen 6. Don't Be Afraid To Ask : How To Date A Beautiful Woman by Bob Lott 7. Customer Satisfaction Is Worthless, Customer Loyalty Is Priceless : How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know by Jeffrey Gitomer 8. How to Give Her Absolute Pleasure: Totally Explicit Techniques Every Woman Wants Her Man to Know by Lou Paget 9. Follow Your True Colors To The Work You Love: The Workbook by Carolyn Kalil 10. How to Be a Great Lover: Girlfriend-to-Girlfriend Time-Tested Techniques That Will Blow His Mind by Lou Paget 11. Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships by John Gray
12. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Mordechai Gottman,
Nan Silver "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." -Chinese Proverb "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." -Marcus Aurelius "Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love." -George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss "The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough." -Bede Jarrett, The House of Gold "He who angers you conquers you." -Elizabeth Kenny "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." -William Congreve, "The Mourning Bride" "One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end." -William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats Memoirs Some Famous Books on Anger: 1. The Anger Habit -- by Carl Semmelroth, Donald E. P. Smith. 2. The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships -- by Harriet Lerner 3. Beyond Anger: A Guide for Men: How to Free Yourself from the Grip of Anger and Get More Out of Life -- by Thomas J. Harbin 4. 104 Activities That Build: Self-esteem, Teamwork, Communication, Anger Management, Self-discovery, and Coping Skills by Alanna E. Jones 5. Anger Management Workbook for Kids and Teens by Anita Bohensky 6. Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh 7. Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Moments: Practical Solutions for Tantrums, Rage, and Meltdowns by Brenda Smith Myles, Jack Southwick 8. When Chicken Soup Isn't Enough: Managing Your Anger in an Increasingly Angry World by Bradley P., Ph.D. Barris 9. Escaping Emotional Entrapment : Freedom from negative thinking and unhealthy emotions by Daniel Rutley 10. Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out: The Anger Management Book by Jerry Wilde 11. Forgive for Good: A Proven Prescription for Health and Happiness by Frederic Luskin, Fred Luskin
12. You Can Choose to Be Happy: 'Rise Above' Anxiety, Anger, and Depression
by Tom G. Stevens "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." -Anon. "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." -Scottish Proverb "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." -Robert Anthony "...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..." -Aristotle "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." -H. Jackson Brown, Jr. "To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance." -Buddha "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." -Benjamin Disraeli "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." -Ben Franklin "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." -Johann von Goethe "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." -Burton Hills "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -Helen Keller "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." -Henry Miller "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." -Cynthia Nelms "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." -William Makepeace Thackeray "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -Mark Twain "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde Some Famous Books on Happiness 1. The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living -- by Dalai Lama, Howard C.Cutler 2. Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment -- by Martin E. P. Seligman 3. Happiness Is an Inside Job -- by John S. J. Powell 4. Present Moment Awareness by Shannon Duncan 5. There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem by Wayne W. Dyer 6. Working on Yourself Doesn't Work: A Book About Instantaneous Transformation by Ariel Kane, Shya Kane 7. Open Your Mind, Open Your Life: A Book Of Eastern Wisdom by Taro Gold, Matthew Taylor (Illustrator) 8. The Blue Day Book by Bradley Trevor Greive 9. I'm Rich Beyond My Wildest Dreams. I am. I am. I am. by Thomas L. Pauley, et al 10. The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser
11. Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
"One thing you can't recycle is wasted time." -Anon. "With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown." -Chinese Proverb "Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you." -"Cheers" "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present." -Roger Babson "You can never plan the future by the past." -Edmund Burke "You may delay, but time will not." -Benjamin Franklin "Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration." -Kahlil Gibran, "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes" "Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." -M Scott Peck "Time is the fire in which we burn." -Gene Roddenberry "Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough." -George Bernard Shaw "The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." -Paul Valery Some Famous Books based on Time: 1. A Mind at a Time -- by Mel Levine 2. A Wrinkle in Time -- by Madeleine L'Engle 3. Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10) -- by Robert Jordan 4. Customers for Life : How to Turn That One-Time Buyer into a lifetime customer by Carl Sewell, et al 5. Present Moment Awareness by Shannon Duncan 6. The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition by Stephen W. Hawking 7. MicroC OS II: The Real Time Kernel (With CD-ROM) by Jean J. Labrosse 8. Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, Book 10) by Robert Jordan 9. The Minimalist Cooks at Home: Recipes That Give You More Flavor from Fewer Ingredients in Less Time by Mark Bittman
10. Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning by Joseph
De Chiara (Editor), Julius Panero (Editor) "One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force." -David Borenstein, October 26, 1999 "All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own." -Oscar W. Firkins, Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters "Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war." -John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses "But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in." -D. H. Lawrence, Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence "There is no way to peace; peace is the way." -A. J. Muste "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence,confidence, justice." -Baruch Spinoza Some Famous Books on Peace 1. Peace Like a River -- by Leif Enger 2. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East -- by David Fromkin 3. A Separate Peace -- by John Knowles 4. Create A Life That Tickles Your Soul : Finding Peace, Passion, & Purpose by Suzanne Willis Zoglio 5. Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh, Arnold Kotler (Editor) 6. The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, & Liberation: The Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and Other by Thich Nhat Hanh
7. Awaken to Superconsciousness: How to Use Meditation for Inner Peace,
Intuitive Guidance, and Greater Awareness by J. Donald Walters "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." -Thomas Carlyle "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't." -Anatole France "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." -Robert Frost "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." -Gail Godwin "No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure." -Emma Goldman "The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving." -Russell Green "There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics." -Richard Livingstone, On Education "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -B. F. Skinner "I never let schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards." -Mark Twain Some Famous Books on Education 1. Experience and Education -- by John Dewey 2. Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding 3. School Crisis Survival Guide: Management Techniques and Materials for Counselors and Administrators by Suni Petersen, Ronald L. Straub 4. Designing Web-Based Training: How to Teach Anyone Anything Anywhere Anytime by William K. Horton
5. An Incomplete Education -- by Judy Jones, William Wilson "When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy." -Anon. "The road to a friend's house is never long." -Danish proverb "Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." -Muhammad Ali "A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely." -Pam Brown "Friends are treasures." -Horace Bruns "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." -Buddha "The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He who has a thousand friends "A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." -Elbert Hubbard "The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?" -Eugene Kennedy "We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." -Joseph Roux "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." -George Washington "True friends stab you in the front." -Oscar Wilde Some Famous Books on Friendship 1. How to Win Friends and Influence People -- by Dale Carnegie, et al 2. Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children -- by Michael Thompson, et al 3. How to Lose Friends & Alienate People -- by Toby Young 4. Making & Keeping Friends: Ready-To-Use Lessons, Stories, and Activities for Building Relationships: Grades 4-8 by John J. Schmidt 5. True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism-For Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals by Mildred L. Brown, Chloe Ann Rounsley 6. The Fourteen Friends Guide to Eldercaring by Fourteen Friends Llc, et al
7. The Relationship Cure: A Five-Step Guide for Building Better Connections
with Family, Friends, and Lovers by John M. Gottman, Joan Declaire "I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time." -Charlie Brown "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." -Frank Herbert, Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965 "You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." -Eric Hoffer "Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." -Michael Pritchard "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -Ambrose Redmoon "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." N.B.: "Fear itself." See also H. D. Thoreau. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, First inaugural address "The basis of optimism is sheer terror." -Oscar Wilde Some Famous Books on Fear 1. Art & Fear -- by David Bayles, Ted Orland 2. Love Is Letting Go of Fear -- by Gerald G., Jampolsky, et al 3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream -- by Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman (Illustrator); 4. In The SpotLight: Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing by Janet E. Esposito, Janet E. Esposito M.S.W 5. New Talkpower: The Mind-Body Way to Speak Without Fear by Natalie H. Rogers 6. Fear No Evil: The Pathwork Method of Transforming the Lower Self by Eva Pierrakos, Donovan Thesenga
7. Play to Win!: Choosing Growth over Fear in Work and Life by Larry Wilson,
Hersch Wilson "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryan "I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves." -George Gordon Byron "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth." -Joseph Conrad, Chance "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny." -Kim Hubbard "And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own." -André Malraux, The Voices of Silence "Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him." -Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." -William Shakespeare "One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be." -Oscar Wilde, De Profundis Some Famous Books on Fate/Destiny 1. Fate Is the Hunter -- by Ernest Kellogg Gann 2. The Fate of the Mammoth: Fossils, Myth, and History -- by Claudine Cohen
3. The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." -Aristotle, Politics
"To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: "Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything." -Willa Cather, Shadows on the Rock, 1931 "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong." -Sir Winston Churchill "To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet." -Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825 "He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts." -Fletcher, Love's Cure, 1647 "He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything." -Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647 "Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character." -James Russell Lowell, Among My Books, 1870 "A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man." -Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, 1911 "Solitude is the playfield of Satan." -Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 1962 "Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone." -Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude, 1950 "There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire." -Jules Renard, Journal, December, 1900 "Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream." -Roger Rosenblatt, The Man in the Water, 1994 "Solitude vivifies; isolation kills." -Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886 "One can acquire everything in solitude except character." -Stendhal, On Love, 1822 "He who lives in solitude may make his own laws." -Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will." -Henry David Thoreau, Walden "Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude." -Miguel de Unanimo, Essays and Soliloquies, 1924 "We are rarely proud when we are alone." -Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 Some Famous Books on Solitude 1.Learning to Love: Exploring Solitude and Freedom (Journals of Thomas Merton, Vol 6) by Thomas Merton, Christine M. Bochen 2.Solidarity, Solitude: Essays by Adam Zagajewski by Adam Zagajewski, Lillian Vallee (Translator) 3.Silence & Solitude: Yellowstone's Winter Wilderness by Tom Murphy, Tim Cahill 4.Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) by Gene H. Bell-Villada (Editor)
5.Wonders of Solitude by Dale Salwak (Editor), Dale Salwalk (Editor) "Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there." -E. M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist "We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake." -Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language "One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." -E. V. Lucas, 365 Days and One More "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." -Orison Swett Marden "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." -Anais Nin, The Diaries of Anaïs Nin "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -Eleanor Roosevelt "Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." -Tupac Shakur "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." -Henry David Thoreau Some Famous Books on Dreams 1. Sylvia Browne's Book of Dreams -- by Sylvia Browne, et al 2. Einstein's Dreams -- by Alan P. Lightman 3. The Complete Dream Book: Discover What Your Dreams Tell About You and Your Life -- by Gillian, Ph.D. Holloway
4. Ketamine : Dreams and Realities by Karl Jansen "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." -Mary Kay Ash "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -Dale Carnegie "If you have a lemon, make lemonade." -Howard Gossage "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." -Vaclav Havel "Beware how you take away hope from another human being." -Oliver Wendell Holmes "Hope is the denial of reality." -Margaret Weis, Dragons of Winter Night Some Famous Books on Hope : 1. I Hope You Dance -- by Mark D. Sanders, Tia Sillers 2. Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale -- by Rick Page 3. Choose Hope: Your Role in Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age -- by David Krieger 4. Forever: A Novel of Good and Evil, Love and Hope by Jude Deveraux
5. Forgiveness Is a Choice: A Step-By-Step Process for Resolving Anger and
Restoring Hope (Apa Lifetools) by Robert D. Enright "If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us." -Francis Bacon "It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer." -William Blackstone "Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." -Edmund Burke "The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be." -Raymond Chandler "When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty." -Norm Crosby "There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court." -Clarence Darrow "A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever." -Henry Waldorf Francis "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer." -Robert Frost "Justice delayed is justice denied." -William Gladstone "Justice is incidental to law and order." -J. Edgar Hoover "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." -Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 "The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence." -H. L. Mencken "Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense." -Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis "The more laws, the less justice." -Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis "We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read." -Mark Twain Some Famous Books on Justice: 1. Street Justice -- by Chuck Zito, et al 2. And Justice There Is None -- by Deborah Crombie 3. Young Justice: A League of Their Own -- by Peter David 4. Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
5. The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are
Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice by Paul Craig Roberts,
Lawrence M. Stratton "Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable." -Anon. "Nobody ever died of laughter." -Max Beerbohm "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." -Victor Borge "The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed." -Sebastian R. N. Chamfort "Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." -Thomas Hobbes "If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old." -Edward W. Howe "Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." -Friedrich Nietzsche "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." -George Bernard Shaw "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." -Mark Twain Some Famous Books on Laughter: 1. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting -- by Milan Kundera, Aaron Asher (Translator) 2. Not Without Laughter -- by Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou (Introduction) 3. The Son of Laughter -- by Frederick Buechner 4. Laughter Therapy: How to Laugh About Everything in Your Life That Isn't Really Funny by Ph.D., M.F.T. Annette Goodheart 5. Nelson's Big Book Of Laughter Thousands Of Smiles From A To Z by Lowell Streiker
6. Married to Laughter: A Love Story Featuring Anne Meara by Jerry
Stiller "When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it." -Bernard Bailey "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up." -Dizzy Dean "Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up." -Jesse Jackson "Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself." -J. B. Priestley, All About Ourselves and Other Essays Some Famous Books on Pride 1. Pride and Joy (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories) by Gay G. Gunn, Gay C. Gunn 2. Pride in Performance: Keep It Going by Les Schwab
3. Destination Branding, Creating the Unique Destination Proposition by Nigel
Morgan (Editor) "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -Henry Ford "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." -Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War, 1521 "This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything." -Scott Reed "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." -Ben Stein "Not all who wander are lost." -J. R. R. Tolkien Some Famous Books on Goals: 1. Incorporating Social Goals in the Classroom: A Guide for Teachers and Parents of Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome -- by Rebecca A. Moyes, Susan J. Moreno 2. Goals: Setting and Achieving Them on Schedule [ABRIDGED] -- by Zig Ziglar
3. Switching Goals (Mary-Kate & Ashley) -- by Lisa Fiedler, Mary-Kate Olsen
"Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written." -Anon. "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research." -Anon. "The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything." -Walter Bagehot "The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it." -James Bryce "If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers." -Irvin S. Cobb "In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is." -Geoffrey Cottrell "There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one." -James T. Farrell "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." -Gene Fowler "The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop." -Alfred Hitchcock "Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications." -Fran Lebowitz "Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come." -Montesquieu Some Famous Books on Writing 1. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction 2. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft -- by Stephen King 3. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within -- by Natalie Goldberg, Judith Guest 4. Meditations, With Distractions: Poems, 1988-98 by James J. McAuley 5. The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers (14th Edition) by John Grossman
6. A Writer's Reference: With 2001 Apa Guidelines by Diana Hacker |