When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
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
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
“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.
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
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
