Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

Source Unknown

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Margaret Chase Smith

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.

Charles H. Duell, 1899

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

Jodi Picoult

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Joyce Brothers

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette, The Pure and the Impure

Otani: Oh... I didn't get you a Christmas present. Risa: But you already gave me something.Otani: Huh? I didn't give you anything.Risa: It was something wonderful. 'I seem to like you much more than I realized'.

Atsushi Otani

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing exists without its opposite.

Chris Crutcher

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Joseph Kosinski

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.

Steve Maraboli