"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us." ― Samuel Smiles Topic(s): Amazing More From Samuel Smiles "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever." "Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry." "Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only." More In Amazing "I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work."― Johnny Mathis "I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to stand on that blue line and hear your national anthem play and being a gold medal champion, you dream of that. And then to be able to accomplish that and actually win a gold medal and represent your country its an amazing feeling."― Sidney Crosby "The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don’t do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods."― Lindsey Graham