We celebrate 2008 with a series of quotes we hope

will inspire, bring joy and provoke thought.

Quotes posted in previous weeks:

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." - Jack London

"To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard

"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." – Holocaust Museum, Washington D.C.

"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you" - Friedrich Nietsche

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain " - Carl Jung

"To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world.  That’s what everybody does every hour of his life.  If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that is much harder?" - Howard Roark (Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead)

"Life's enchated cup sparkles near the brim." - Lord Byron

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."  - Aeschlyus

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." - Helen Keller

* Quotes Continued:

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind." - Frank Lloyd Wright.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."  - Winston Churchill

"Hide not your talents.  They for use were made.  What's a sundial in the shade?" - Benjamin Frankliny

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Keep your face always toward the Sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.  - Walt Whitman

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer.  It sings because it has a song."  - Chinese Proverb 

"Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey

"The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of Citizen" - Louis D Brandeis, former US Supreme Court Justice.

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." - Winston Churchill

"When we quit thinking primarily of ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness." - Joseph Campbell

" There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.  The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln.

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy.

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstin

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." . Martin Luther King, Jr.

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."  - Voltaire

"In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished."  -Pico Iyer

"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character." - Margaret Chase Smith

* some not posted due to length but fun to read, anyway.