Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

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 best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Magical

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

– J.K. Rowling

Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”

– Eve Ensler

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

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’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

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

– Voltaire

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

– Noela Evans

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

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

– Tony Robbins

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

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

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

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

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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

– Louisa May Alcott

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

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

– Helen Keller

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

– Christopher Morley

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci