Better than...

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
- Richard Whately

Surround System

Best interest

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

~ Benjamin Franklin

Looking at mankind

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
-Lord Byron, poet (22 Jan 1788-1824)  

Moments...

"We don't remember days … we remember moments."

~ Cesare Pavese

What you can...

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

~ John Wooden

Easy to speak

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."

~ Mother Teresa

Donate books

Donate old books to the library.

It may very well become someone else's all-time favorite.  

One can

Let us remember:

One book,

one pen,

one child, and

one teacher can change the world."

~ Malala Yousafzai

Defeat & Victory

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
- Edwin Markham

impossible to fail

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Charles Kettering

So much reluctance

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
- Joseph Addison

Extract from...

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

- Henry Ward Beecher

3Cs

"Curiosity Creates Creativity"

Happy New Year

Starting Today

"Your past is not your future. You have the power to make new decisions for your life starting today."

~ Deb Sofield

Best Wishes