Dream New Year's Dreams!

“This new year we must make sure not to crush the gossamer wings of hope our loved ones extend as they dream their dreams. We must help them to lift gently into the air and fly high knowing we are there to catch them if they fall, and then help them to fly again!"

—Edmond Danken Sailer; poet, author, philosopher

You Decide Where to Go

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”

—Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991); Writer, Cartoonist, Animator

Ideas have Momentum

“Ideas have momentum. When an idea is first thought of it begins moving. When it is written down it increases in speed. When it is shared it gains a significant surge forward. When it is put into action its conclusion is almost inevitable.”

—Edmond Danken Sailer; poet, author, philosopher

Do the Right Thing!

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”

—W. Clement Stone (1902-2002); Author, businessman author

Don't Give Up!

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1886); author

Change!

“Change cannot be stopped; it is inevitable. Only how you guide and embrace change can be accomplished. And that, is entirely within your control!”


—Edmond Danken Sailer; poet, author, philosopher

Involve Me!!

“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”

—Chinese Proverb

Give What You Can!

“Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.”

—Tom Krause (born 1934); motivational speaker, teacher, and coach

Excellence is a Habit

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

—Aristotle (384-322); philosopher

Rise to the Occasion!

“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”

—Abigail Adams (1744-1818);
U.S. First Lady (1797-1801)

Open Yourself to a World of Possibilities!

“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”

—Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997);
marine biologist, diver, explorer

Take Chances!

“The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them."

—Unknown

Risk it!

“Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out."

—James Bryant Conant

Do What You Think You Can't

“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.”

—Oprah Winfrey
(1954-); Television Host, Actress, Philanthopist

Determination

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940); author

Love and Compassion

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”

—Dalai Lama

Remember to Notice the Beautiful!

“A "person" should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of "their" life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832); Writer, Polymath

Weed Your Garden

“We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.”

—Dorothy Day
(1897-1980); journalist, social activist

Replant Your Garden!

“We need to support each other. I look at this as replanting your garden so that future generations will have a full bounty of crops."

—Thomas Steyer (1957-) American asset manager, philanthropist and environmentalist

Saints and Sinners

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic

No One's Listening

“Anybody can talk to the dead, it's hearing back that's the problem.”

—Jim Underdown

You Have a Choice

“With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.”

—Oprah Winfrey
(1954-); Television Host, Actress, Philanthopist

Don't Argue!

"Why get into an argument about something that in 30 minutes, what's it gonna matter."

—Karherine Ballantyne

Be Bold!

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832); Writer, Polymath

Your Life is Happening Now!

“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”

—Alfred D. Souza
(-2004) writer, philosopher

Your Thoughts Matter

“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.”

—Bill Meyer
(1892-1957); baseball manager, coach

Everyone Can Be Great!

“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

—Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929-1968); Minister, Civil Rights Activist

Live in a Merrier World

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

—J.R.R. Tolkien
(1892-1973); Writer, Poet, Philologist, University Professor

Creativity

“Creativity is putting your imagination to work.

—Sir Ken Robinson (1950-); author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies

Talk to Someone in Their Language

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
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—Nelson Mandela (1918-); Former President Of South Africa

Today is for Action!

“I only have to have enough energy for today.”
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--Edmond Danken Sailer

Immortality!

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

—Albert Pike
(1809-1891); Attorney, Writer, Soldier

Be Open to Truth

“If you will be as open to scientific inquiry as you are to unverified information, you will be a wiser person.”
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--Edmond Danken Sailer