Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Here is the complete list of the 101 quotes that inspire me.  I wrote to most of these quotes and when I reread them, I can remember what the post was about.  It is such an interesting journal of the last almost 1001 days.  

1. Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca
2. When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 
3. Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. ~Dan Zadra
4. Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5. Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. ~Henry Ward Beecher
6. Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. ~Scott Adams
7. The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. ~Author Unknown
8. Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
9. Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them. ~Author Unknown
10. Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. ~Antoine Rivarol
11. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer
12. A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown
13. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. ~Gilda Radner
14. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ~Found on a headstone in Ireland
15. Don't let your dreams go up in smoke - practice fire safety. ~Author Unknown
16. Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
17. ...and when you exhale, release the thoughts and feelings that do not serve you... ~My yoga instructor
18. The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. ~John Bingham
19. I want to do it by myself. ~Taelin Crowe
20. Everyday might not be good, but there is good in every day. ~Author Unknown
21. Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them. ~Author Unknown
22. I have learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. ~Maya Angelou
23. May you live in interesting times. ~Chinese Proverb
24. Words have weight. Stephen King
25. Life is a long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler
26. Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. ~Peg Bracken
27. The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ~Julien Green
28. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. ~Winston Churchill
29. Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. ~unknown
30. The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. ~Hans Hofmann
31. Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~Kak Sri
32. So many books, so little time. ~Frank Zappa
33. A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. ~Frank A. Clark
34. Action expresses priorities. ~Gandhi
35. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt
36. Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha
37. There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
38. Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ~Henri Frederic Amiel
39. Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
40. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones
41. Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ~Lindley Karstens
42. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Unknown
43. We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder
44. Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf. ~Jonatan Mårtensson
45. There is a choice you make in everything you do. In the end, the choice you make, makes you. ~Author Unknown
46. Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus
47. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott
48. The home should be the treasure chest of living. ~Le Corbusier
49. Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold. ~Judith Olney
50. You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond
51. Life is a combination of magic and pasta. ~Federico Fellini
52. A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future. ~Author Unknown
53. What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count. ~Albert Einstein
54. There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ~Zora Neale Hurston
55. At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~Lao Tzu
56. Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius
57. Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability. ~Joe Brown
58. The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. ~Linus Pauling
59. Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. ~Charles F. Kettering
60. Opportunity is one of those things that depend greatly on the eye of the beholder. ~Andrew Sanchez
61. A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty
62. Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu
63. It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~K.T. Jong
64. Time is an old firmly rooted tree; we are the breeze rustling its leaves. ~Terri Guillemets
65. Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone. ~Deborah Whipp
66. The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth
67. People that hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life. ~Faith Resnick
68. Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. ~William Hazlitt
69. I will hold myself to a standard of grace, not perfection. ~Emily Ley
70. How you climb up a mountain is just as important as how you get down the mountain. And so it is with life, which for many of us becomes one gigantic test followed by one gigantic lesson. In the end, it all comes down to one word. Grace. 
71. It's how you accept winning and losing, good luck and bad luck, the darkness and the light.
72. Kids believe in Santa; adults believe in childhood. ~Cate Kennedy
73. I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. ~Nancie J. Carmody
74. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~Maya Angelou
75. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
76. Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ~Arthur Rubenstein
77. Smile, breathe and go slowly. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
78. Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you. ~Anonymous
79. If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown
80. Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
81. As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
82. I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ~Jennifer Yane
83. Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink the wild air. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
84. Though she be but little, she is fierce. ~William Shakespeare
85. To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. ~Charles Dudley Warner
86. Be selective in your battles, sometimes peace is better than being right. ~unknown
87. The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye
88. You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop and what you reinforce. ~Tony Gaskins
89. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because you character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. ~John Wooden
90. Storms make trees take deeper roots. ~Dolly Parton
91. At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. ~Lao Tzu
92. A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything. ~Irish proverb
93. To invent your own life's meaning is not easy...but it's still allowed...and I think you'll be happier for the trouble. ~Bill Watterson
94. Laughter is the fireworks of the soul. ~Josh Billings
95. Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. ~Margaret Peters
96. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. ~Arthur Ashe
97. Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, it empties today of its strength. ~Corrie Ten Boom
98. She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. ~Elizabeth Edwards
99. Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain. ~Vivian Greene
100. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. ~ Maya Angelou
101. Words-so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne