Since childhood, I have always loved collecting quotes. I decided that I shall keep this particular entry fresh, adding quotes to the top of the list so that readers will not have to wade through tons of already read quotes. If you have quotes you would like to share – please feel free to add them in the Comments Box on the blog, or Email them to me. So, let’s keep the “Writing on the Wall” post fresh with new quotes – inspirational, comical, etc.. Thanks! ~ dljh

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ~ Thoreau

The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

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
Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

I would like to live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were ever supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.” ~ Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss Universe contest

“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

If I could win a race
Without looking at a face
I would make my own stencils
and people could trace me running.
~ Sophie Lockhart age 7-1/2 (Written by one of my piano students)

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.