If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
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 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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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 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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
