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

– Marcel Proust

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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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

– Mae West

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

– President Calvin Coolidge

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

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Aristotle

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

– Carl Rogers

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

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

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

– Eve Ensler

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

– Buddha

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

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

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

– Chinese proverb

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

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

– T.S. Eliot

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

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