Mrs. Isenberg

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"People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun 
is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if 
there is a light from within." -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, 
passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing 
them gratified." -- Samuel Johnson

"To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply 
gives you courage." -- Lao-Tzu

"Success is never final, failure is never fatal, it's courage that counts." --
 Sir Winston Churchill

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing 
himself." -- Leo Tolstoy

"We don't see things as they are.  We see things as we are."  -- Anais Nin

"They can because they think they can." -- Virgil

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." - Henry Ford

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure 
to succeed."  -- Abraham Lincoln

"I know the price of success:  dedication, hard work and an unremitting 
devotion to the things you want to see happen." -- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.  Dream deep, for every dream 
precedes the goal."  -- Pamela Vaull Starr

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune 
without words and never stops at all."  -- Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the anchor of the soul, the stimulus to action, and the incentive to 
achievement."  -- Anon.

"Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the 
requisites for success." -- Alonzo Newton Benn

"Life only demands from you the strength you posssess."  -- Dag Hammarskjold

"In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue 
and to endure."  -- Heart Warrior Chosa

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is 
invisible to the eye." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Hold fast to dreams/For if dreams die,/Life is a broken-winged bird/That 
cannot fly."  - Langston Hughes

"Goals determine what you're going to be."  -- Julius Erving

"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."  - William Blake

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody 
everything every night before you go to bed."  - Ann Landers

"Failure is an event, never a person."  - William D. Brown

"It isn't failing that spells one's downfall; it's running away, giving up." -
 Michel Greco

"In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of 
each night there is a smiling dawn."  - Kahlil Gibran

"What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each 
other?"  - George Eliot

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to 
start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Go the extra mile.  It's never crowded."  - Executive Speechwriter Newsletter

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's
eyes for an instant?" - Henry David Thoreau

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his 
point of view." - Harper Lee

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read." - 
Mark Twain

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor 
Roosevelt

"Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: 
Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!" - W. Somerset Maugham

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to 
improve the world." - Anne Frank

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single 
word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope." - Sir Winston Churchill

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible 
summer." - Albert Camus

"Your vision will become clear when you look into your heart." - Carl Jung

"Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. 
Try to be better than yourself." - Willam Faulkner

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, 
music - the world is so rich - simply throbbing with rich treasures, 
beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." - Henry Miller

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

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in 
harmony." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did 
it wrong." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We take on the strength of that which we overcome."  -- Anonymous

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else." -- Emerson

"The best and most beautiful things in the world must be felt with the heart."
 -- Helen Keller

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's 
foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." 
 -- Aldous Huxley

"The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.  The tragedy lies 
in having no goal to reach."  -- Benjamin E. Mays

"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process." — Thomas 
Edison (19th/20th-century American inventor), responding to a reporter who 
asked how it felt to fail 2000 times before successfully inventing the light 
bulb

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do 
not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set 
about remedying them — every day begin the task anew." — Saint Francis de 
Sales

"What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what 
happens to us." — Jean-Paul Sartre, 20th-century Nobel Prize-winning, French 
existentialist writer

"Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping 
on the worse; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what 
cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes 
ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead 
of "cursing the darkness." -- Anonymous

"Courage. . . is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, 
fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life, with all its 
sorrows, is good; that everything is meaningful, even if in a sense beyond 
our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow."  -- Dorothy Thompson

"What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through 
them.  We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing." 
 -- Rosa Parks

"The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered 
acts of kindness and love." -- William Wordsworth

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to 
what lies within us." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing 
it at someone else; you are the one getting burned." -- Buddha

"Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not 
emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring 
of one's whole being into the being of another." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"But only in their dreams can men be truly free.  'Twas always thus, and 
always thus will be."  -- "Dead Poet's Society" movie

"That which we are, we are; -- One equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak 
by time and fate, but strong in will.  To strive, to seek, to find, and not 
to yield."  -- Lord Alfred Tennyson

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

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
 -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's not whether you get knocked down.  It's whether you get up."
 -- Vince Lombardi

"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, 
when all they need is one reason why they can."  -- Willis Whitney

"Success is a journey, not a destination."  -- Deepak Chopra

"Time is the coin of your life.  It is the only coin you have, and only you 
can determine how it will be spent.  Be careful lest you let other people 
spend it for you."  -- Carl Sandburg

"One kind word can warm three winter months."  -- Japanese Proverb

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is.  But if you 
treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what 
he ought to be and could be."  -- Goethe

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that happens to it." -- C.C. Scott

"It's not about how much you do, but how much love you put into what you do 
that counts.  Life isn't worth living, unless you live for other people."
 -- Mother Teresa

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."  -- Epicurus

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."  -- Norman Vincent Peale

"Silence is also speech."  -- African Proverb

"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original 
dimensions."  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached 
in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."
 -- Booker T. Washington

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Mrs. Isenberg

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