Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. read more

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking read more

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as read more

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, read more

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks. -Richard Bach.

, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the read more

, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships. -John Gottman.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I read more

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. -John Wesley.