"Rain may pour down from the heavens, but if you only hold up a thimble, a thimbleful is all you receive." 

Ram Dass

"All truth passes through three stages.  First, it is ridiculed.  Second, it is violently opposed.  Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." 

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." 

Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life...we can never help another without helping ourselves." 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whether you think you can or you can't.  Either way you're right." 

Henry Ford

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.  I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." 

Mother Teresa

"...Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow.  I am the softly falling snow..." 

Mary Frye