Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Henry Miller

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Albert Schweitzer

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"

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

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

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

– T.S. Eliot

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

– Eckhart Tolle

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

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

– Noela Evans

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

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

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

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

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

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

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”

– Norwegian proverb