“It is choice—not chance—that determines your destiny”
–Jean Nidetch
Week 1001
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
Week 1000
“A healthy person has 1000 wishes. A sick person has but one.”
-Indian Proverb
Week 999
“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”
-Anne Frank
Week 998
“If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.”
-Bill Clinton
Week 997
“And those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
-Frederich Nietzsche
Week 996
“I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.”
-Claude Monet
Week 995
“The measure of society is found in how they treat the weakest and most helpless citizens.”
-Jimmy Carter
Week 994
“There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.”
-Oscar Wilde
Week 993
“It’s true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% preparation. In truth, what happens is… songs come through you.”
-Greg Lake
Week 992
“The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf. It’s almost a law.
-HG Wells
Week 991
“Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle!”
-Sanya Richards-Ross
Week 990
“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”
-John F. Kennedy
Week 989
“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.”
-Georgia O’Keeffe
Week 988
“There is a delicate ridge one must ride between fear and reason on a motorcycle – lean too far in either direction and there will be consequences.”
-Lily Brooks-Dalton
Week 987
“The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”
-Jackson Pollock
Week 986
“Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.”
-Heraclitus
Week 985
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
-Bob Dylan
Week 984
“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.”
-Spanish Proverb
Week 983
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.”
-Greek Proverb
Week 982
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
-Gerald Ford
Week 981
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”
-Carl Jung
Week 980
“Luck is the residue of design.”
-Branch Rickey
Week 979
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
Week 978
“True courage is not fearlessness. It is overcoming fear.”
-Anonymous