Action may not always bring happiness … but there is no happiness without action.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
— Arundhati Roy
Be Yourself, everyone else is already taken!
— Oscar Wilde
Become who you are.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
But for us the road unfurls itself, we don’t stop walking, we know there is far to go.
— Denise Levertov
Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers… forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused & put into action.
— Orison Marden
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.
— Jim Rohn
Discipline is the hidden ingredient that turns nobodies into somebody.
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
Do what you have always done and you’ll get what you have always got.
— Sue Knight
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.
— Michael Pollan
Every flower has to go through a lot of dirt.
— Lauren Bond
Every man’s work is a portrait of himself.
— Abraham Lincoln
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
— Jim Rohn
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you\’ve imagined.
— Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is like a butterfly: If you chase it, it flies away, but when you turn your attention to other things, it comes and quietly lands on your shoulder.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. That makes it hard to plan the day.
— E.B. White
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
— Joseph Campbell
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
— Mary Engelbreit
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.
— Sent-ts’an, c. 700 C.E.
It’s never too late to be what you might have been.
— George Elliot
It’s your life, your happiness, your health. Plan accordingly.
— Rebecca Pacheco
Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.
— Mark Twain
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass – it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
— Unknown
Minute by minute, thought by thought, your mind is what shapes your life.
— Gurumayi
Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.
— C. H. Woodward
Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline.
— Bertrand Russell
Peace, It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise no trouble or no hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still BE CALM IN YOUR HEART
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.
— The Eagles, “Already Gone”
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.
— The Fray
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
— Jim Rohn
The conventional wisdom is that we choose friends because of who they are. But it turns out that we actually love them because of the way they support who we are.
— Karen Karbo
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
— Albert Einstein
The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime.
— Spanish Proverb
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
— Leo Tolstoy
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
— Carl Bard
Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
— Jim Rohn
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
— E.E. Cummings
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
— Longfellow
What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness.
— Tolstoy
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who looks outside, dreams; Who looks inside, awakes.
— Carl Jung
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
— Jim Rohn
You don’t get in life what you want. You get what you are.
— Les Brown
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