Inspiring Words

"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
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.  Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle."The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours" -Ayn Rand
"When anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent."-St. John of the Cross
"Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily." -Abebe Bikila
For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says, 'The stone that you builders rejected has now become the cornerstone.' -Acts 4:11.
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."—1 Corinthians 13:11
 
 "Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten" -???
"It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.” -Sir Philip Sidney