Open Air Reader

Funny is an attitude. - Flip Wilson

He that lives on hope will die fasting. - Benjamin Franklin

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy. - Unknown

I would rather die of passion than of boredom. - Emile Zola

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. - Scott Hamilton

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. - Talmud

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope. - Princess Leia

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on. - Christopher Walken

I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's. - Woody Allen

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. - Henry Ford

It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true. - Sara E. Anderson

The most beautiful make-up is passion but cosmetics are easier to buy. - Yves Saint Laurent

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude. - Zig Ziglar

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. - Henry Chester

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. - Charles Spurgeon

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada? - Sarah Vowell

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Enthusiasm creates a current in everyone it touches. It turns an ordinary person into a crusader. - F.D. Van Amburgh

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. - Norman Cousins

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. - Paulo Coelho

Everything happens for a reason, you only need to keep on editing your attitude and gratitude so as to sail through. - Unknown

No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude. - Buddy Valastro

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. - Ingrid Bergman

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. - William Faulkner

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. - David Frost

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. - Bill Vaughan

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. - Andre Gide

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire. - John Brown

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. - William Bradford

Emotion is the chief source of becoming conscious. There can be no transforming of lightness into dark, of apathy into movement without emotion. - Carl Jung

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson

Playoff hockey is the best way to market your team. It's the best way to grow your fan base and give hope to your players and for them to develop. - Steve Yzerman