You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

– L.J. Smith

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

– Steve Jobs

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

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

– Henry Miller

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

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

– Victor Kiam

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

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

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

– African Proverb

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

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

– Erica Jong

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

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

– John Lennon

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

– August Rush

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

– Michelle Sedas

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

– Eckhart Tolle

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

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

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

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

– Guy Kawasaki

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

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

– Lewis Carroll

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

– Christopher Morley

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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 is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

– Norwegian proverb

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

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

– William Blake