Quotes

"Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." - Plato

"A complaint is just a covert request!"

“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
~Wayne Dyer

"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something (or someone) you dont know anything about."
~Wayne Dyer

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
~St. Augustine

" Great spirits have always been violently oppressed by mediocre minds. "
~Albert Einstein

"I have given up on Christianity to follow Jesus"
~ Shane Claiborne

"Regardless of how absurd my inner callings might seem, they're authentically mine. The willingness to listen and act on my inspiration, independent of the OPINIONS of others, is imperative." ~Wayne W. Dyer

" Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be certified, but the child MUST learn. In a public school environment, the teacher MUST be certified, but the child need NOT learn."
~Gene Royer

"When you walk through the world feeling you are "more than" rather than "less than" more will come to you.
confidence is contagious, it will bring more into your life."
~Suze Orman

"A broken promise is a cry for help."
~?

"She seldom reflects on the days of her life, because God keeps her occupied with gladness of heart."
~Ecc 5:20 (This one makes me :-D)

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." ~ Elbert Hubbard

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
~Winston Chruchill

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who matter dont mind and those who mind dont matter"
~Dr. Seuss

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
~Thomas Jefferson

 You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. ~Ann Lamott (this sums up my experience with modern day christianity and man made religions)

Romans 12:18
"If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people. "

"The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choices words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech. "
~Edwin H. Friedman

Proverbs 18:13
"What a shame, what folly, to give advice before listening to the facts!"