- “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Gandhi
- "When you don't do your best you are denying yourself the right to be you." -don miguel ruiz
- "If you want to have self-esteem, do estimable actions"
- "Don't compare your insides to someone else's outside"
- "Your lack of planning is not my emergency." -Unknown
- "We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of "guess what's in the teacher's head?" What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of unique dreams and ideas are in your head." -Roger Von Oech
- “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.” --Epicurus
- "The truly righteous do not complain about what is wrong. They just add to the goodness." A rabbi
- “We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.” --William Hazlitt
- “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” - Arnold Toynbee
- “Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” - Albert Einstein
- “A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life. . . . Harmonious life. A life when a man’s work is also his pleasure and vice versa. That conjunction, joined with a buoyant temperament, makes the best of worldly gifts.” Winston Churchill
- “If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” - C.G. Jung
- "The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."-Henry Stimson
- "A ship is safe in the harbour, but that is not why ships were built." -unknown
- "Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."— Oscar Wilde
- “Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” - Lao Tzu
- "I am the decisive element...It is my daily mood that makes the weather." -Goethe
- "Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do - they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- try again. fail again. fail better - Samuel Beckett
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is every wasted. -Aesop
- Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Plato
- “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
- Nothing can stop a man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude. –Thomas Jefferson
- Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. –Viktor Frankl
- “I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.”-goethe
- “There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.” - Dostoevsky
- “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” - Barbara De Angelis
- "... We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” - Charles Bukowski
- "I’m not trying to take more of the pie for myself. I’m trying to make the pie larger for everyone." --Dean Karnazes
- "In 20 years, you will be more disappointed by what you didn't do than by what you did." -Mark Twain
- "Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." - William James
- “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?”- Robert Browning
- “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” --Charles Kingsley
- “What you think of me is none of my business.”
- “You’d worry less about what people thought of you if you knew how little they did.”
- "Smile, breathe and go slowly." - Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Be as you wish to seem.” ~Socrates
- “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” — Dale Carnegie
- "Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution." -Stephen Jay Gould.
- “If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.” — Lou Holtz
- “Don’t carry a grudge. While you’re carrying a grudge, the other guy’s out dancing.” — Buddy Hackett
- Happiness is like a butterfly. If you chase it, it will constantly elude you. If you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
- “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” — J. B. Priestley
- "Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees." - Miranda July
- “Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing” - Aristotle
- “We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.” - William Hazlitt
- "Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it." - Jules Renard
- "Love doesn't make you happy, make yourself happy. Then you get love." - Sue Shapiro
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
- “Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” - John Kenneth Galbraith
- “If you want to be happy, be.” - Leo Tolstoy
- “Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln
- “Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains two descriptions: might have, & should have.” — Louis E. Boone
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