Take a pick-axe and break apart your stony self. ~ Rumi

Never make an excuse that affirms your powerlessness. -- Alan Cohen

You become what you think about. — Earl Nightingale

There is a Power in the Universe greater than we are,
and we can use it. — Ernest Holmes

The problem with a fallback position is that you tend to fall back. ~ Author unknown

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. -- Jackie Robinson

You can BE, DO and HAVE everything you want in life... you just must take ACTION! ~ Louis Lautman

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. -- Jimmy Johnson

Don’t let your ‘not now’ become your ‘never’. ~ Roslyn Franken

I am not a slave to my thoughts or emotions. -- Richard Carlson

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. -- Vincent Van Gogh

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -- Albert Einstein

If I'm always doing the best I can, I'm bringing my best self to the very next moment. And that's all anyone can ask for. ~ Bevin Lynch

If you let your background keep you from moving forward you will always be a background singer. ~ Derrick Hayes

Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been.
-- Hilary Clinton

Good is the enemy of great. -- Jim Collins

Whoever you meet has been sent by God. How would you greet them? -- Alan Cohen

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. -- Chinese Proverb

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. -- Swedish Proverb

Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day. -- Mary Anne Radmacher

Don't let life happen to you. Choose to be a Conscious Creator and shape your future and the future of the planet. ~ Jackie Lapin

Nothing can be more useful to you than a determination not to be hurried. -- Henry David Thoreau

Sustain heartfelt connections to grow personally as you empower others in their lives. ~ Dr. Shellie Hipsky

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? -- George Eliot

Your body is where God speaks to you. Listen. -- Beverlee Garb

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song. -- Chinese Proverb

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

It isn’t about the things we do -- it’s the energy we do them from. -- Mary Morrissey

An unexamined life is not worth living. -- Henry David Thoreau

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. -- Richard Bach

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't let the past bully the future. You own the future, the past owns itself, and you are greater than them both. -- Carly Cermak

Always do what you are afraid to do. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. -- Albert Camus

Once you see the light, you come to understand just how deeply in the dark you have been. ~ Amethyst Wyldfyre

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine. -- Morris West

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. ~ Author Unknown

Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings. -- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits. -- Anonymous

When It’s Darkest, Men See the Stars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest fears can become our greatest accomplishments. ~ Tara Taylor

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three
universally recognized moral qualities of men.
-- Confucius

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother. -- Epictetus

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. -- Mark Twain

Change is the end result of all true learning. -- Leo Buscaglia

Most people don't live their life, they live their reaction to life. -- Hans King

Never cut what you can untie. -- Joseph Joubert

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. -- W. D. Howells

Every day think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. -- The XIV Dalai Lama

Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? ~ Pema Chodron

When you stumble, make it part of the dance. -- An Unknown Author

When you invite change into your life in the form of growth, you will become greatness. ~ Faith M. Davis

To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is real wisdom. -- Confucius

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle

The end of labor is to gain leisure. -- Aristotle

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. -- Albert Einstein

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. -- Thomas Jefferson

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action. -- Mother Teresa

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
-- Buddha

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T. S. Elliot

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. -- John F. Kennedy

We teach that which we most need to learn. ~ David Bach

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. -- Marianne Williamson

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. -- Jim Rohn