By your stumbling the world is perfected.”

– Sri Aurobindo

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

– T.S. Eliot

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Martha Beck

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

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

– Lao Tzu

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

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

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

– Chinese Proverb

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.

– Avenida Margarita

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

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

– Henry Miller

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

– Lewis Carroll

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

– African Proverb

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

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

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

– Frederic Nietzsche

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

– Carl Rogers

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

– Erica Jong

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

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

– Carlos Castaneda

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

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

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

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

– John Quincy Adams

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

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

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix

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

– Christopher Morley

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch