The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
~James Baldwin

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
~William James

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
~Robert G. Ingersoll

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
~Blaise Pascal

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
~Helen Keller

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.
~Elvis Presley

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream�It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
~Benjamin Elijah Mays

We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
~Carlos Castaneda

Inspiring people are vitamins for our spirits. They come in all kinds of disguises and descriptions. If you open your heart to being inspired, they will appear.
~Sark

Peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.
~Ralph W. Trine

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
~Albert Ellis

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
~Hannah More

When you cease to dream you cease to live.
~Malcolm S. Forbes

Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
~Larry Niven

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.
~Og Mandino

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through -- then follow through.
~Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker

I wanted to change the world, but I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
~Aldous Huxley

The first duty of love is to listen.
~Paul Tillich

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~Buddha