| "If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand." »Confucius |
| "Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring." »S. J. Perelman |
| "Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon." »David Assael |
| "In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter |
| "We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose." »Brian Tracy |
| "Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers." »Rainer Maria Rilke |
| "There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience." »La Bruyere |
| "The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden." »Johann von Goethe |
| "People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under." »Charles R. Swindoll |
| "Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things." »Miyamoto Musashi |
| "No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal." »Helen Keller |
| "We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." »Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return!" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
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