“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
~Maya Angelou
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It’s got to be in the right place.”
~Lance Armstrong
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.”
~Richard Bach
“I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”
~Larry Bird
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
~Robert Brault
“Words are the voice of the heart.”
~Confucius
“Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtue has never been discovered.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.”
~Lou Gehrig
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”
~Wayne Gretzky
“At some point you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out, they fence you in. Life is messy, that’s how we’re made. So you can waste your life drawing lines or you can live your life crossing them…. Here’s what I know. If you’re willing to take a chance, the view from the other side is spectacular.”
~Meredith Grey in “The First Cut is the Deepest” on Grey’s Anatomy (2005)
“Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.”
~Bear Grylls in Mud, Sweat and Tears
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
~Steve Jobs
“Love is everything it’s cracked up to be…. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.”
~Erica Jong
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”
~Lady Bird Johnson
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
~Henrik Ibsen
“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.”
~Ann Landers
“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”
~Estee Lauder
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
~Abraham Lincoln
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
~John Lubbock
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. It’s where all the fruit is.”
~Shirley MacLaine
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
~Gabriel García Márquez
“Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.”
~Henri Matisse
“Creativity takes courage.”
~Henri Matisse
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
~William Morris
“A simple ‘hello’ would do, thank you very much.”
~Winnie the Pooh
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
~Colin Powell
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”
~William W. Purkey
“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.”
~Gilda Radner
“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”
~Knute Rockne
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
~Mother Teresa
“If you want to be happy, be.”
~Leo Tolstoy
“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
~Lily Tomlin
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.”
~Mark Twain
“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
~Mark Twain
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~Mark Twain
“Enjoy your memories, relax with them in mind and then use them to make a better today.”
~UpbeatBrain
“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things in life which are the real ones after all.“
~Laura Ingalls Wilder
“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”
~John Wooden
“Love the giver more than the gift.”
~Brigham Young
