“We did not change as we grew older; we just became more
clearly ourselves.”
– Lynn Hall
“Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always
beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may
alight upon you.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must
keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein
“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain
nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice
being brave.”
– Mary Tyler Moore
“If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up
where we are headed.”
– Chinese Proverb
“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to
displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to
temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.”
“Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work
harder for what you want.”
– Robert Bringle
“May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking
down.”
– Sara June Parker
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us,
we can control what happens inside us.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem
your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad
company.”
–George Washington
“So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go.
They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.”
– W. Clement Stone
“Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and
healthy is the most important thing.”
– Venus Williams
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
– Beverly Sills
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a
personal introduction to the great and good men of all past
times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their
shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter a library I
feel as if almost the dead were present, and I know if I put
questions to these books they will answer me with all the
faithfulness and fullness which has been left in them by the
great men who have left the books with us.”
– John Bright
“Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has
to be maintained.”
– Seamus Heaney