| "A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger...Fear... Aggression...The dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice." (Yoda) |
| "To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." (Oscar Wilde) |
| "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
| "Never stop questioning!" (Albert Einstein) |
| "Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it." (Bruce Lee) |
| "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
| "Eat properly...keep your body in good shape...you never know when you're going to need it." |
| "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them." (Confucius) |
| "Life is not about finding your place. Life is about creating a place for yourself." (Georges Sand) |
| "Travel the road between what you think you are and what you can be." |
| "Beware of your thoughts, for they will become actions. Beware of your actions, for they will become habits. Beware of your habits, for they will shape your character. Beware of your character, for it will shape your destiny." |
| "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." (Eleanor Roosevelt) |
| "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." (Dr. Seuss) |
| "You have brains in your head, You have feet in your shoes, You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go." (Dr. Seuss) |
| "It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." (Seneca) |
| "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would never miss." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
| "There is a woman at the beginning of all great things." (Alphonse de Lamartine) |
| "You're never too old to become younger." (Mae West) |
| "Difficulty strengthens the mind as labor does the body." (Seneca) |
| "Many things have fallen only to rise higher." (Seneca) |
| "Freedom is not worth having if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes." |
| Words I live by... |
| "If you love life, life will love you back." (Arthur Rubinstein) |
| "Act as if it were impossible to fail." (Dorothea Brande) |
| "Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow." |
| "If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average." |
| "Have a beginner's mind." |
| "Ordinary people see the means of victory but do not know the forms by which to ensure victory." (The Art of War) |
| "Happiness is when what you think, what you do, and what you say are in harmony." (Mahatma Gandhi) |
| "A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." (Mahatma Gandhi) |
| "First decide who you would be, then do what you must do." (Stoic philosophy) |
| "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." |
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| "I will permit no man or woman to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate them." |