When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Greg Anderson

Reflect upon your present blessings,
of which every man has many,
not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some.


Charles Dickens

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

Thomas Aquinas

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.


Katharine Hepburn

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

The cure for grief is motion.


Elbert Hubbard

To remain young one must change.


Alexander Chase

A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.

Evelyn Scott

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind
in an imperfect world.


Robert Hillyer

We create our fate every day we live.


Henry Miller

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.

Kathleen Norris

Change is the watchword of progression.


Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Pearl Bailey

We have to dare to be ourselves,
however frightening or strange
that self may prove to be.


May Sarton

To aim at the best
and to remain essentially ourselves
is one and the same thing.


Janet Erskine Stuart

Imagination lit every lamp in this country, built every church, performed every act of kindness and progress, created more and better things for more people. It is the priceless ingredient for a better day.

Henry J. Taylor

Write it on your heart that every day
is the best day of the year.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.


Helen Keller

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

St. Basil

I do not believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Gloria Naylor

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

Thomas Carlyle

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

Henri Fredric Amiel

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak;
they are but the instruments of the wise.


Samuel Lover

Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

St. Augustine