Courage
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. -- E. E. Cummings
Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. -- Brendan Francis
Empowerment
Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake. -- Marie Beyon Ray
My dad always used to say, "If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose." -- Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5
Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. -- John Wooden
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. -- Wayne Dyer
When we blame, we give away our power. -- Greg Anderson
Maturity is the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others. -- Hrand Saxenian
Friendship
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected. -- Voltaire
A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure. -- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Love
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are countless ways to express love. Be creative! -- Inneractions by Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.
Miracles
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein
Persistence
Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself. Author Unknown
"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. -- Douglas Everett, American Hockey Player
Success
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing. -- Will Rogers
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a hand full of mud, either." -- Leo Burnett
The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility. -- Leland Kaiser
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. -- Mark Caine
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The people that get on in this world are the people that get up and look for the circumstances that they want; and if they can't find them, they make them. -- George Bernard Shaw
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. - Henry Ford
The best way to predict the future is to create it! -- Jason Kaufmann
Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation. -- Inneractions by Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.
Remove the rock from your shoe rather than learn to limp comfortably. -- Inneractions by Stephen C. Paul and Gary Max Collins.
The point of life is not to be married or single - it is to be. We are human beings, or humans being. It does not matter so much what lifestyle we choose - it's what we make of the opportunities to grow, that counts. -- Alan Cohen, Rising in Love
Values
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. -- Roy Disney
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such transparent egotism. -- Will Durant
