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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
Bernard Beckett
Future
Confidence
Fear
Problems
Face
Differences
Resolved
Type
Solved
Ability
Spirit
Uncertainty
Superstition
Optimism
Curiosity
Human
Belief
Human Spirit
Fragile
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
Experience
Others
Ability
Having
Remarkable
Almost
Also
Learn
Human
Human Beings
Apparent
Who
Unique
Beings
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas Adams
Seldom
Almost
Always
Go
End
Up
Where
Wanted
Need
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
You
Will
More
Know
Learn
Read
Go
Places
Things
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Revenge
Men
Slight
Destroyed
Take
Generously
Because
Heavy
Cannot
Either
Should
Injuries
Treated
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire
Good
Patriotism
Enemy
Rest
Become
Must
Patriot
Mankind
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley
You
Determination
Before
Resolve
Gives
Lay
Spite
Roadblocks
Going
Keep
Keep Going
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Denis Waitley
Future
Time
Day
Persistence
Will
Long
Own
Our
Destiny
We Cannot
Pursuit
Continue
Bloom
Cannot
Happens
Choose
Fully
Grow
Deepest
You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Dr. Seuss
Good
You
Pretty
Pretty Good
Good Shape
Shape
Only you can control your future.
Dr. Seuss
Future
You
Control
Only
Your
The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.
Ellen G. White
Life
Humble
Simplicity
Christ
Example
Our
All Things
Exalted
Mission
How
His
Infinitely
Things
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin
Art
Envy
Own
Other
Instead
Counting
Blessings
Fellow
Your
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
Jane Austen
Good
Great
Conversation
People
Great Deal
Clever
Idea
Call
Well-Informed
Deal
Who
Good Company
Company
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert
Humanity
Flower
Politeness
He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Power
Must
Obeyed
He
Wishes
Know
How
Command
Who
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
People
Will
Sail
Few
Rudder
Willing
Steer
Take
Most
Mount
Flag
Which
Use
Sermon
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Friendship
Rose
Every
Fold
Breathing
Sweets
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
Rudyard Kipling
You
Backwards
Fall
Down
Never
Look
Stairs
We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.
Stan Lee
Respect
Peace
World
Live
Society
Other
Must
Diverse
Fact
Learn
In Fact
Each
These are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas Paine
Try
Men
Souls
Times
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Washington Irving
Adversity
Woman
Heart
Dark
Prosperity
Fire
Every
Broad
Lies
True
Daylight
Hour
Up
Heavenly
Which
Dormant
Spark
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward
Learning
Curiosity
Candle
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley
Promises
Winners
Make
Always
Losers
Commitments
Often
Break
Keep
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
Will
Universe
States
Bizarre
Exactly
Exactly What
Something
More
Disappear
Instantly
Another
Inexplicable
Discovers
Replaced
Anyone
Happened
Which
Theory
Even
Why
Ever
Here
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
Ellen G. White
Lion
Faith
Prayer
Christ
Devil
Our
Those
Seeking
Steadfast
About
He
Roaring
Like
Adversary
Unto
Devour
Coming
May
Sober
Should
Who
Preparing
Whom
Watch
Resist
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy
Worship
Also
Form
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