“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.”
— Sydney J. Harris
“The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.”
— Andrew Schneider
“Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.”
— Robin Sharma
“Why can we so easily overlook in ourselves the faults we are quick to spot in others? It is easy to be objective when it comes to criticizing our friends, family members, and business associates, but it is far more difficult to be honest about our own shortcomings. Only when we recognize that we are all human, with the same faults and failings, do we begin to develop that wonderful quality of tolerance that enables us to accept others as they are and ask nothing in return. Replacing faultfinding with “goodfinding” is never easy. But when you become one who always compliments instead of criticizes, you become the kind of friend we would all like to have.”
— Napoleon Hill
“We can make changes in our lives, we can live consciously rather than mechanically, we can open our hearts and we can be more fully alive.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best.”
— William Arthur Ward
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Don’t Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher