Quotes for winners.

"The healthiest response to life is joy." -- author unknown

“Wine is bottled poetry.” -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos." -- Don Kardong

"It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later." -- Lucimar Santos de Lima

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." -- John Gardner

"Some of us learn from other people's mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people." -- Zig Ziglar

‎"Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds." -- Zig Ziglar

"I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace." -- Henry James

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." -- Albert Schweitzer

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” -- Anton Chekhov

‎The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." -- Nelson Henderson

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” -- Anton Chekhov

“Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.” German Proverb

“In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer” -- Albert Camus

"A civilized society takes care of it's own people." -- Tim Flowers

"Living life consumed by your past is like driving a car with your foot on the brake." -Les Parrott

‎“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” -- Bill Cosby

"When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time." -- source unknown

‎"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion." -- Albrecht Druer

"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel."--Peter Nivio Zarlenga

“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.” -- Frank Barron

“I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.” -- Alberto Salazar

“Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.” -- Bonnie Raitt

"Create peace on every level of your life. Not just through good intentions but by the way you conduct your life on a daily basis." --Deepak Chopra

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."--Leonardo da Vinci

‎"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." --Anne Lamott

‎"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies." -- Erich Fromm

"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes." -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

‎"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger." -- Saint Basil

‎"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination." -- Terri Guillemets

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."--Socrates

"Own your own feelings. Nobody else does. Accept that you don’t own the other person’s feelings." –- Deepak Chopra

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe." -- H.H. The Dalai Lama

‎"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us." -- Joseph Campbell

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one" -- Bruce Lee

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." -- Francis Bacon

‎"Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be." -- Marsha Petrie Sue