"We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own." - Michael Crichton, Prey.

"The first and most important point is that our oaths to the gods prevent us from being enemies of each other." - Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, Page: 123.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." ~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter." - Nicholas Sparks ,The Rescue

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." ~ Andre Gide

"The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love." (I just LOVE this quote) ~by W.S.Coffin

" What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness." " One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them." ~by Ivo Andric

"The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it." ~by Marcel Proust ,"Swann's Way"

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." ~ by Martin Luther King, Jr.

''Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, Old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.'' Walt Whitman,"Song of the Open Road",verse 12

"You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the god's gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them." - Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, Page: 146.

"I carried inside me a cut and bleeding soul, and how to get rid of it I just didn't know. I sought every pleasure - the countryside, sports, fooling around, the peace of a garden, friends, and good company, sex, reading. My soul floundered in the void - and come back upon me. For where could my heart flee from my heart? Where could I escape from myself?" *Augustine's Quote - Thomas Cahil, How the Irish Saved Civilization.

"You will never have the hearts of your children if you talk with them only when something has gone wrong." - Tedd Tripp, Shepherding a Child's Heart, Page: 93.

"You must not warn...[of impending discipline]. If you do, you are training them to wait for the warning before they obey. Your children must understand that when you speak for the first time, you have spoken for the last time." - Tedd Tripp, Shepherding a Child's Heart, Page: 151.

"Seemingly senseless pain and trauma engulfs much of life. If you seek to follow Him, you must be content to trust His character rather than your ability to understand. The difference between a knife in the hand of an assassin and a knife in the hand of a surgeon is intent: both inflict severe pain. You must decide whether God is an assassin or a surgeon. But remember, your choice does not change God, only your opinion." - Walter A. Henrichsen, Thoughts From the Diary Of A Desperate Man, Page: January 12.

"Try to discover who I am from my choice of words and colors, as attentive people like yourselves might examine footprints to catch a thief." Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

Our Deepest Fear Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,gorgeous,handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone. And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear,our presence automatically liberates others. By Marianne Williamson

"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with the sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause... his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt, "Man in the Arena" Speech, (April 23, 1910).

"My own experience is that for human beings certainty does not exist, has never existed, will not - in our finite states..." Daniel Taylor, The Myth of Certainty, Page: 94.

"The greatest obstacle to building truly good relationships is [a feeling of ] justified self-centeredness, a selfishness that, deep in our souls, feels entirely reasonable..." Larry Crabb, Man and Women, Page: 65.