To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." Robert Muller
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. -Mary Tyler
"Effort without talent is a depressing situation....but talent without effort is a tragedy." - Mike Ditka
Farewell
Two of the granddaughters of Senator Edward Kennedy, Grace Allen and Kiley Kennedy, seek solace in a hug near his coffin towards the end of his funeral at Arlington National Cemetery on Aug. 29. "It was getting dark by the time the ceremony began," explains photographer Doug Mills. "A light was brought in by the Secret Service so that people could see where they were walking. But they didn't turn it on until the end, and when they did, people immediately started going toward the casket and one another."
"Happiness is in itself a kind of gratitude." ~Joseph Wood Krutch
Tent City
Homeless people sleep in an encampment on Capitol Hill in Seattle. "I had been wanting to take pictures of homelessness," says photographer Aaron Huey. "I see alot of it in Seattle and I'm always torn. I went to this tent city for the homeless, which is near St. Mark's Cathedral, on a quick assignment — I had only two days. But on the first day I shot very few photos. I used the time to get to know people there so they would be comfortable with me coming in with a camera. The second evening is when I made most of my pictures, including this one. I wanted a shot with the Seattle skyline in the background to give context to this homeless encampment juxtaposed against the larger, more affluent city. But I wasn't sure if I'd be able to see that from the tent city. Then I found a janitor who allowed me to go up to the top of the cathedral. I made it up to the roof, and by crawling through some windows, I was able to get that shot."
The wheel was once square, but they kept persevering. ~ Marcela Bennett
Audience
Cadets at the military academy at West Point listen to President Obama's speech announcing troop increases in the war in Afghanistan.
Aim for service and success will follow. -Albert Schweitzer
Clash of the Yellowhammers
"The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it." - Lord Macaulay
Osprey catching a fish in Finland
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure... for CURIOSITY." ~Ellen Parr
Causeway to Saint John's hermit in Gaztelugatxe, Biscay, Spain
Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893
He conquers who endures. ~Persius
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
Poland's Janek Galek performs slacklining, in which nylon webbing is stretched tight between two anchor points, in Warsaw.
Mark Twain
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
Francois de Fenelon
"Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love."
Sylvia Plath
"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."
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