Muhatma Gandhi ~

" The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. "

T.S. Eliot ~

" Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. "

Lauren Oliver ~

" I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. "

Cecil Beaton ~

" Be daring, Be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. "

Charles Bukowski ~

" If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the GODS, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. "

William Shakespeare ~

" Brevity is the soul of wit. "

C. JoyBell C ~

" There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance. "

John Quincy Adams ~

"  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. "

John F. Kennedy ~

" Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. "

Earl Nightingale ~

" Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. "

Denis Waitley ~

" Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: NOW. "

Erich Fromm ~

" Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, We experience strength, wealth, and power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills us with joy. We experience ourselves as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. "

The Twin Soul Revelations-

" If you question if this person could be your true love because it is too amazing to happen to you, in reality, you know but can't believe. If, however, you ask if this love you feel is big enough to be your true twin soul, then hell no, the answer is NO. "

Dr. Seuss-

" Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. "

Rig Veda-

" You are the friend of all because of your merits. A good person embellished with good thoughts becomes the friend or benefactor of all. Such a person influences others, because of his positive personality traits and attracts them and as a result, he befriends all. "

Og Mandino-

" The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. "

Bruce Lee-

" Be like water making it's way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless, Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. "

Muhammad Ali-

" To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. "

Micheal Jordan-

" Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. "

Louis D. Brandeis-

" Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. "

Will Rogers

" If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. "

Albert Einstein-

" The field is the sole governing agency of the particle. "

Michelangelo-

" The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we reach it. "

Horace-

" Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. "

Red-

" Nothing in Life is free...even love. Sometimes you have to pay the price. So that you can understand the true value. "

Marie Curie-

" Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. "

Dogen-

" Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. "

Stephen Butler Leacock-

" It may be that those who do most, dream most. "

Giovanni Boccaccio-

" You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desire meaning, take another, if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark. "

Melody Beatti-

" Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. "

Banksy-

" You're mind is working at it's best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at a high speed with total clarity. "

Unknown Author-

 " The Tiny seed knew that in order to grow it had to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness and struggle to reach for the light. "

Karl Marx-

" Thus heaven I've forfeited, I know it full well. My soul, once true to God, is chosen for Hell. "

Charles Darwin-

" It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. "

Jack Lonon-

" you can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. "

Donatella Versace-

" Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas. "

Dr. Seuss-

" Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try. "

Nas-

" Use your own Intuition, you are tomorrow. "

Nas-

" I saw on T.V. today this man lost his son, his son died. So he had him cremated, took the ashes and then made it into a diamond ring. Now he watches his son shine everyday. I just thought about that, while I sit here ashing in this ash tray. "

Julius Caesar-

" It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. "

William Bridges-

" Disenchantment, whether it is minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transitions in our lives. "

Ramakrishna-

" If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. "

Charles Dickens-

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

Swami Sivananda

" Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. "

Alexandre Dumas-

" There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. "