Trust thyself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know thyself. -Socrates
Be Original. -Tiny Tim
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE MAN WHO THINKS HE CAN: If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don�t. If you�d like to win, but you think you can�t it is almost certain you won�t. If you think you�ll lose, you�ve lost. For out in the world you�ll find �success� begins with a fellow�s will. It �s all in the state of mind. If you think you are outclassed, you are. You�ve got to think high to rise. You�ve got to be sure of yourself before you can ever win a prize. Life�s battles don�t always go to the stronger or faster man, but soon or late the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. -Arnold Palmer
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius
All know the way, but few actually walk it. ~ Zen Master Bodhidharma
A philosophy of life: I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure. ~ Paulo Coelho
'Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to
it.' -Buddha
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. - Mahatma Gandhi
Why make the same mistake twice when there are so many new ones?
To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to go on creating
oneself endlessly. -Henri Bergson
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the
promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. -James Allen
The world is for those who make their dreams come true. -Harold Gray
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. -Walt Disney
You are one of a kind; therefore, no one can really predict to what heights you might soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings!
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
'Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.' -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be. ~ Leo Buscaglia
'There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.' - Nelson Mandela
'Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.' -Yoda
People with a sense of challenge realize that they'll never achieve peak creativity or experience joy unless they take some risks.
'It's kind of fun to do the impossible.' -Walt Disney
'The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.' -Arnold Palmer
'To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.' -Tony Dorsett
'You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.-Benjamin
Franklin
'The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.' -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.' -Eleanor Roosevelt
'The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream.' -Eleanor
Roosevelt
'Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.' -Oscar Wilde
'Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?' -George Bernard Shaw
'Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.' -T.S. Eliot
'What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?' - Vincent van Gogh
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. -Barbara DeAngelis
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. -Joanna Baillie
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. - Mary Byrant
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave! -Timothy Luce
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you take risks, you may fail. But if you don't take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing. ~ Robert Goizueta
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
No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away. -David Gilmore
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. -Gail Sheehy
I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours. ~Henry David Thoreau
Every exit is an entry somewhere. ~Tom Stoppard
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ~Paulo Coelho
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too, all sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now! ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man�s proper stature�and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning�and it is those few that I have always sought to
address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me... that they will betray: it is their own souls. ~ Ayn Rand
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: 'Does this path have a heart? -Carlos Castaneda
There is a sobering side to eccentricity. Odd behavior can flourish only in a tolerant society and that it often produces radical new ideas by virtue of its willingness to cast off accepted norms. Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
Dare To Dare
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach
out for another is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams,
before the crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But
risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Those who risk
nothing do nothing, have nothing, and are nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but
they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. Chained by their attitudes, they are
slaves, they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free.
Take risks. You can't achieve anything without taking risks.
The Road Less Taken
By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Every Warrior of the Light has felt afraid of going into battle.
Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone.
Every Warrior of the Light has trodden a path that was not his.
Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.
Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.
Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties.
Every Warrior of the Light has said 'yes' when he wanted to say 'no.'
Every Warrior of the Light has hurt someone he loved.
That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is." ~ Paulo Coelho
You are only as big as your dreams. -Luis Villalobos
Control your destiny or someone else will! �Jack Welch
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges. -Michael S.Josephson
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too, all sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now! -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. -Apple Computers
It's not where you came from...it's where you're going...It's not what's on you...but what's in you...it's not what you're driving it's what drives you that's important.
If you never learn to face your fears, you'll never learn to face life.
...Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -Frank Herber
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity. -Santiago, The Alchemist
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. -Leo Buscaglia
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."-Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. -Herbert Otto
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. -Ella Fitzgerald
Dream as if you�ll live forever. Live as if you�ll die today. James Dean
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.