"Two paths diverged in the wood and I jumped off the beaten trail and cut my own path and it has made all the difference." (Unknown)
"'Why not' is a slogan for an interesting life." (Mason Cooley)
"Lif is too short." (Bart Gold)
"To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it." (Samuel Butler)
"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours." (Swedish proverb)
"Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't." (Unknown)
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it!" (Unknown)
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." (Alan Alda)
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
(Mother Teresa)
"No day but today." (Jonathan Larson)
"We shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real." (Sylvia Plath)
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." (James R. Cook)
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." (Paul Valery)
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." (E.J. Phelps)
"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." (Norman Vincent Peale)
"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." (Susan Polis Schutz)
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." (Unknown)
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." (Phillip Brooks)
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." (John Barrymore)
"Whoever lives true life...will love true love." (Browning)
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose one's self." (Soren Kierkegaard)
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood." (Richard Bach)
"That you are here - that life exists, an identity; that the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse." (Whitman)
"Don't go through life, grow through it." (Eric Butterworth)
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become." (James Allen)
"If you're gonna win, win grateful.
If you're gonna love, love faithful.
If you're gonna learn, learn by teaching.
If you're gonna fall, fall reaching."
(Robert Ellis Orall)
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." (Marilyn vos Savant)
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it." (Toni Morrison)
"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." (Anais Nin)
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." (E.E. Cummings)
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." (James Dean)
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard)
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads." (Erica Jong)
"To be sensual is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the baking of bread." (James Baldwin)
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." (Ralph Vaull Starr)
"Rest not! Life is sweeping by;
go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime,
leave behind to conquer time." (Goethe)
"Action may not always bring happines, but there is no happiness without action." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings." (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink, and somebody to love you." (Brendan Behan)
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." (Herman Melville)
"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it." (Unknown)
"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's little acorn that held its ground." (Unknown)
"You've got to dance like nobody is watching and love like it's never going to hurt." (Unknown)
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." (Confuscious)
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live." (Joan Baez)
"The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves." (Garth Henrichs)
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." (Herman Cain)
"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create." (Leonard I. Sweet)
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the smae number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." (H. Jackson Brown)
"I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?" (Unknown)
"We must become the change we want to see." (Mahatma Gandhi)
