You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

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

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

– General Omar Bradley

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

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

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

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

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

– Muhammad Yunus

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

– Corita Kent

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

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

– William Shakespeare

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

– Henry Miller

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

– John D. Rockefeller

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

– Mary Oliver

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

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

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

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

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

– Chinese proverb

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

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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

– Norwegian proverb

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Indira Ghandi

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

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

– John Quincy Adams

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

– Helen Keller

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Aristotle

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

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

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha