I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

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

– Corita Kent

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

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

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

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

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

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

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

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

– Noela Evans

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Albert Schweitzer

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

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

– Chinese Proverb

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

– Jack Kerouac

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Carl Rogers

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

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

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

– Virginia Woolf

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Helen Keller

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

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

– Maureen Cook

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

– General Omar Bradley

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

– E.B. White

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

– J.K. Rowling