And
the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful
than the risk it took to bloom.
Anais
Nin
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to
know what you ache for; and if you dare to dream of meeting your
heart’s longing.
Oriah
Mountain Dreamer
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
Let yourself be silently drawn by the pull of what you really love.
Rumi
You can have anything you want—if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham
Lincoln
Care more than others think wise. Risk more than others think safe.
Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others
think possible.
Howard
Schultz
The two terrors that discourage originality and creative living
are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one’s own
consistency.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well
that no one at all would find fault with what he has done.
Cardinal
Newman
If I had my life to live over again, I’d dare to make more
mistakes the next time.
Nadine
Stair
Deep listening from the heart is one half of true communication.
Speaking from the heart is the other half.
Sara
Paddison
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t
matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr.
Seuss
The greater danger is not that our hopes are too high and we fail
to reach them, it’s that they are too low and we do.
Michelangelo
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets
even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare
wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street
sweeper who did his job well.
Martin
Luther King, Jr.
First have love in your heart; then do whatever you want.
Paraphrase
of St. Augustine
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Gandhi
Be genuine, sincere, like uncarved wood, real and natural. Be yourself.
I
Ching
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary
project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends
limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and
you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces,
faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to
be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Patanjali
A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible
thing he or she might have enjoyed but did not.
Talmud
Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds
you worthy, directs your course.
Kahlil
Gibran
Things work out best for the people who make the best out of how
things turn out.
Art
Linkletter
I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can
do it. If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price,
you can get it done.
Mike
Ditka
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you
up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done
against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale
Carnegie
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the
courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically—to
say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is
by having a bigger “yes” burning inside.
Stephen
Covey
You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws
you, then choose this way with all your strength.
Martin
Buber
I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers.
And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their
hearts.
Sylvester
Stallone
This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what
to do with it.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.
Let us begin.
Mother
Teresa of Calcutta
It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited
time on earth—and that we have no way of knowing when our
time is up—that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth
Kubler Ross
I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is
the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to
quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the
joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.
Eknath
Easwaran
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if
you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among
the sweetest in a person’s life.
Seneca
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
Tom
Robbins
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert
Einstein
I am confronted by insurmountable opportunity.
Pogo
Possum
To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest
hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing
does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and
sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and
love.
Leo
Buscaglia
Don’t take yourself and your life so seriously, forgetting
that life is meant to be a great adventure to be lived fully. When
you become too serious, life loses its luster and you have a hard
time being happy.
Susan
Smith Jones
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves
too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising
in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings,
and material assistance that no man could have dreamed would have
come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness
has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Goethe
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and
look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find
them, make them.
George
Bernard Shaw
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of
your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon
Hill
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of it? We must have perseverance
and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we
are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie
Curie
Not all people are called to be hermits, but all people need enough
silence and solitude in their lives to enable the deep inner voice
of their own true self to be heard at least occasionally.
Thomas
Merton
Remember that not getting what you want sometimes is a wonderful
stroke of luck.
Dalai
Lama
When one door closes, another opens; but often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for
us.
Helen
Keller
To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything
be more fun?
Katherine
Graham
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.
If you’re alive, it isn’t.
Richard
Bach
This above all else: To thine own self be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William
Shakespeare
When your heart speaks, take good notes.
Andy
Mellon
Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel
a loss of energy, a loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti
Gawain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark
Twain
Don’t just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough
each morning to decide what is really important during the day ahead.
Richard
Eyre
What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home
runs.
Babe
Ruth
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