"You have enlightened and inspired me many times over the past year. I would read the daily quotes that you so faithfully send and paste them in my "scrapbook" (a text file I started just for the quotes). When time permits, I also read the comments, thoughts, etc., you add to the end of each one.

One quote in particular, though, has inspired me to the point of changing my major in college, more importantly, my career aspiration. I have always wanted to be a writer--I ache to write, but it's not a widely accepted occupation in my circle of friends, family, supporters. It is considered a "lazy man's (or woman's, in my instance) job" by those around me who do not write, nor wish to. I am what one calls a non-traditional student--one who always dreamed of a higher education but never had the opportunity to proceed until many years after having graduated high school (seventeen years, to be exact). So instead of following my heart, I followed my head--and the well-intended advice of those around me--and sought a major in business.

Universities should post warning signs around their campuses, alerting their students to the contagiousness of the disease, Desire to Learn More. I contracted DLM in the beautiful, romantic, old, marble-endowed English building -- Cherry Hall. The moment I entered this place in time I was smitten.

Turn-of-the-century staircases of marble, the smell of leather-bound books, the perfume of hand-carved cherry mouldings entranced me, held me spellbound in direct opposition to accounting and econ. When I did not have class there, I sneaked in to study my other subjects--so I could feed my addiction. An awareness of what I really wanted began to surface, and in my feverish state,

I would mumble incoherently, trying not to arouse suspicion. How could I tell anyone that what I want more than anything else in this world is to write?

I had resigned myself to the education everyone expected of me--one that would bring more financial gratification than personal--when I checked my e-mail and, lo and behold, you had sent me courage in the form of a quote:

"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

Patricia Jaggers

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The point is I don't think anyone could have gotten more out of it than me. All of a sudden one day I realized just how great I felt and fantastic my life had become. I think going through the many, many quote books I have purchased as a resource for the board has made a wonderful difference in my thinking, and of course it all begins with our thoughts! It just proves that you really can't help another without helping yourself."

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"I enjoy your quotation network. Some have profound meaning and some make me smile. When I was a teenager in the late sixties I read a quote in the Readers Digest that has always stayed with me. "You can't steal second with your foot on first." This has come up many times in my life when I have wondered if I should try something new or different. I've always known that being safe doesn't always get you around the bases in life. And after all if you are called out, you just bat again and start over. Anyway, really enjoy all the quotations. Thanks ! Life is Good!"

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