Wing Four: Hall of Passages

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"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." ~FDR 1930's

"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are-if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time." ~Joseph Campbell

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive." ~Joseph Campbell

"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody." ~Mark Twain

"Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance." ~Samuel Johnson

"Beginnings are scary, ending are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. You need to remember that when you find yourself at the beginning just give hope a chance to float up. And it will, too." ~From "Hope Floats"

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth." ~Unknown

"Life isn't a destination-it's a journey. We all come upon unexpected curves and turning points, mountaintops and valleys. Everything that happens to us shapes who we are becoming. And in the adventure of each day, we discover the best in ourselves." ~Unknown

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, then education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think say or do. It is more important that appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church..a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past..we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do it play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how i react to it. And so it is with you...we are in charge of our Attitudes." ~Charles Swindoll

"Too often we are scared.

Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people may think if we tried.

We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes.

We say no when we want to say yes.

We sit quietly when we want to scream.

And we shout with the others when we should keep our mouths shut.

Why?

After all,

We do only go around once.

There's really no time to be afraid.

So stop.

Try something you've never tried.

Risk it."

~Nike

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” ~Unknown

“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, they make them.” ~George Bernard Shaw

“If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.” ~Romans 12:20

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” ~Hannah Moore

“The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.” ~Joan Borysenko

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely, and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your own nonsense.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.” ~Harold Taylor

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