daily contemplation

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

~ Norman Vincent Peale

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

~ Charles Dickens

"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."

~ Plato