You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
