"No matter what a person's past may have been, his future is spotless."
--- John R. Rice

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
--- Albert Schweitzer

"When you hug someone, never be the first to let go." --- H. Jackson Brown, Jr

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."--- Antoine de St. Exupery

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"If you want to have the rainbow, you're gonna have to deal with the rain."-- Anon.

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this."--- Henry David Thoreau

"I want to die like my grandfather; peacefully in my sleep. Not screaming like his passengers."  -- Anon.

"As long as I'm faced in the right direction, it does not matter the size of my steps."--- Erica Lawrence 

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."--- Confucius 
 

UU Links and Related Resources Songs are from Singing the Living Tradition   'Tis a Gift to Be Simple Morning Has Broken All Beautiful the March of Days Nearer, My God to Thee Forward through the Ages This is My Song All Creatures of the Earth & Sky Amazing Grace! Source: Williamsburg UU Music Page

"Obstacles are what you see when you lose sight of your goal."--- Unknown 

"It's not where you start that matters, but where you finish."-- Anon.

"Fear always springs from ignorance."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"There are two ways to live your life...
  (1) As if nothing is a miracle, and
  (2) As if everything is a miracle."
--- Albert Einstein 

"The tragedy of life is not that it is so short... but that we take so long to begin living it." --- Anon.

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."-- Groucho Marx 

"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own."-- Chinese proverb 

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."-- Chinese proverb 

"Those who cannot learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Next semester."-- My history teacher in college.

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."-- Oscar Wilde

"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other."  -- Donald G. Smith

"Wisdom begins in wonder."  -- Socrates

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."-- Dylan Thomas

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." 
-- Jules Renard

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