Say What? by Sandy Foster (best black authors txt) 📖

become diverse. God made us that way.” – Glen A. Johnson, Guideposts reader
769. “Happiness is not the end of the road; it is the beginning.” – Richard Carlson
770. “Things happened in my life where I thought I knew what I was going to do, but instead, other things happened. I call them the Lord’s accidents. They’re not accidents to Him at all. He’s got it all planned. It turns you around, and suddenly you’re doing something you didn’t think you were going to do.” – Jane Russell
771. “I’m a big push through kind of person. Something happens and I don’t look at it as anything that’s going to stop me from doing what I’m going to do.” – Christina Applegate
772. “If you do what you fear, you won’t fear what you do.” – Gordon Morton
773. “Adversity is wisdom’s testing ground.” – Henry Alford
774. “When you feel down, look up. God is there with you.” – Amber Fly, Guideposts reader
775. “Always remember that ‘dead last’ is better than ‘did not finish’, which is better than ‘did not start’.” – Tara Parker-Pope
776. “If you live your life worried about the ‘what ifs’, you’ll never enjoy the ‘what’s happenings’.” – Cindy Kerbaugh, Guideposts reader
777. “There is a subtle difference between a mission and a promise. A mission is something you strive to accomplish. A promise is something you are compelled to keep. One is individual; the other is shared. When a mission and a promise are one and the same, that’s when mountains are moved and races are won.” – Hala Moddelmag
778. “I call you Far Rider, not because of your great races and your fine pony, but because you are one who rides far from himself, and wishes not to look home. Until you do, you are neither white man nor Indian.” – Chief Eagle Horn to John Hopkins, Hidalgo
779. “.....God made us all in pairs; each has his mate somewhere or another; and it is our duty to find each other out, since no creature was ever intended to be miserable.” – Thomas Paine
780. “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.” – Anne Frank
781. “And the little prince added, ‘and the eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.’”
782. “A wise person once told me that depression is anger turned inward.”
783. “Inspiration follows aspiration.” – Rabindranath Tagore
784. “Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.” – Richard Bach
785. “Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life.” – Foster C. McClellan
786. “Calmness is the cradle of power.” – Josiah Gilbert Holland
787. “If I won't be myself, who will?” – Alfred Hitchcock
788. “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” – Charles Caleb Colton
789. “To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.” – Bette Davis
790. “Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.” – Anandibai Joshee
791. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” – Anais Nin
792. “There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” – Booker T. Washington
793. “The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” – William Connor Magee
794. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle
795. “Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch – what makes you go beyond the norm.” – Cicely Tyson
796. “Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.” – Dame Flora Robson
797. “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lord
798. “Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it's harvest time.” – Yiddish saying
799. “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.” – Doug Larson
800. “Age is all imagination. Ignore years and they'll ignore you.” – Ella Wheeler-Wilcox
801. “Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.” – Anonymous
802. “Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.” – Will Rogers
803. “Consistency is only a paste jewel that cheap men cherish.” – William Allen White
804. “Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.” – Joan Ganz Cooney
805. “Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.” – Mary Tyler Moore
806. “Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” – Miguel de Cervantes
807. “When thinking won't cure fear, action will.” – William Clement Stone
808. “Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.” – Doris Lessing
809. “Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask.” – Billy Graham
810. “Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.” – Lauren Bacall
811. “The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.” – Bruce Springsteen
812. “Service is the rent you pay for room on this planet.” – Shirley Chisholm
813. “I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.” – Julia Cameron
814. “I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism, and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.” – Armando “Chick” Corea
815. “There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.” – Katharine Butler Hathaway
816. “We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in love with God.” – Mother Teresa
817. “I learn by going where I have to go.” – Theodore Roethke
818. “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” – Peter Marshall
819. “I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.” – Etty Hillesum
820. “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
821. “Kindness makes a fellow feel good, whether it's being done to him or by him.” – Frank A. Clark
822. “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” – Gilda Radner
823. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie
824. “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” – Susan J. Bissonette
825. “Spring is nature's way of saying, ‘Let's party!’” – Robin Williams
826. “Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.” – Erich Fromm
827. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – M. Kathleen Casey
828. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
829. “Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.” – Seneca
830. “Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.” – Maurice Setter
831. “Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
832. “One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.” – Rebecca Falls
833. “Character is simply habit long enough continued.” – Plutarch
834. “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” – Chinese Epigram
835. “We never know how high we are till we are called to rise and then, if we are true to plan our statures touch the skies.” – Emily Dickinson
836. “Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.” – Katherine Mansfield
837. “No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.” – Helen Keller
838. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
839. “Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.” – Robert Orben
840. “Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.” – Chaim Weizmann
841. “Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” – James Beard
842. “The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no valleys to traverse.” – Helen Keller
843. “Life is too complicated not to be orderly.” – Martha Stewart
844. “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain
845. “If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
846. “Make voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else…” – Tennessee Williams
847. “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.” – General George S. Patton
848. “Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” – Brendan Francis
849. “The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
850. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
851. “What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.” – Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong
852. “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says turn back.” – Erica Jong
853. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett
854. “He who forgives ends the quarrel.” – African proverb
855. “If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.” – Gail Sheehy
856. “Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.” – Mary Ritter Beard
857. “Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey
858. “Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” –