It's graduation time - from religious school, from high school, from college. As young people look out at the future, I wonder what they see waiting for them: opportunity? hard times?
Whichever, I know they are in for big adjustments. The transition from one level of school to another, and especially school to work, requires a whole different way of looking at the world. I found a little book that contains some thought-provoking one-liners with good advice. I've selected a few for you to share with your graduate!

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No life ever grows
great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick.
We too often love things and use people when we should be using
things and loving people.
Unknown.
The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
]ohn D. Rockefeller, Jr.
You are only what you are when no one is looking.
Robert C. Edward.
Opportunities are seldom labeled.
]ohn A. Shedd.
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
Descartes
Jumping to conclusions is not half as good as digging for facts.
Unknown.
Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles H. Spurgeon.
If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.
Unknown.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little
something extra.
Unknown.
A person never discloses his/her own character so clearly as when he/she describes another's.
Jean Paul Richter.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already
mastered, you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn.
Money is a good servant but a bad master.
Bacon.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace.
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando A. Battista.
This world belongs to the person who is wise enough to change his/her mind in the presence of facts.
Roy L. Smith.
Tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington.
Not only to say the right thing at the right time, but more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
George Sala.
The supervisor's payer: So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.
Pauline Peters.
And finally:
School seeks to get you ready for the exam; life gives you the finals.