Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
