Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. *
~Henry Van Dyke

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
~Horace

TEARS

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. **
~Eileen Mayhew

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. *
~Albert Smith

Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart.
~Dr. Hook

Every tear has a smile behind it. *
~Iranian Proverb

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
~Alex Tan

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
~John Vance Cheney

Tears are the silent language of grief.
~Voltaire

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

TIME

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. *
~Benjamin Franklin

Time heals what reason cannot.
~Seneca

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. *
~Dean Acheson

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.
~Charles Richards

There is time for everything.
~Thomas Edison

THINKING

Our life is what our thoughts make it. *
~Marcus Aurelius

You are not what you think are; but what you think, you are. *
~Vincent Peale

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
~William Shakespeare

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
~Anonymous

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
~William Shakespeare

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
~Unknown

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
~Benjamin Disraeli

TODAY

Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. *
~Kalidasa

Think that this day will never dawn again. *
~Dante

Every day is a new life. **
~Author unknown

The past is history, the future is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present.
~Author unknown

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
~Thomas Carlyle

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.
~William Osler

The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today.
~Dale Carnegie

The load of tomorrow added to that of yesterday carried today makes the strongest falter. Shut off the future as tightly as the past. The future is today. Prepare to cultivate the habit of a life of 'day-tight compartments.'
~William Osler

Anyone can carry this burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. *
~Robert Louis Stevenson

TRUST

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
~Lawrence D. Bell

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson