Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
 Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

– Ella Fitzgerald

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie