Mistakes

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw 

Life

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln 

Identify me

"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for." - Thomas Merton 

Change

"We need to be the change we wish to see in the world." - Mohandas Gandhi 

Positive Thoughts

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results." - Willie Nelson

Believe in yourself

"Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you." - Cynthia Kersey

Change

"There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. " - Denis Diderot 

Winner's Edge

‎"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success." 

- Denis Waitley

Sincerity

"When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts." -Lao Tzu

Kinder

"If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within." - Dan Millman 

Playing in the Concert

"It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert." - Jacques Yves Cousteau 

Self-Acceptance

"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." - J. Donald Walters

Happy

"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about." - Dale Carnegie

Desire

"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so." - Marcia Wieder

Quality of the day

"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, or so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere through which we look - to affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts." - Henry David Thoreau 

Look for what's right

"If you just look for what's right - in others, in relationships, in yourself and your journey - you'll always find it." - Mike Dooley

Existence

"Not a single person is born in the world who has not a certain capacity which will make him proud, who is not pregnant with something to produce, to give birth to something new and beautiful, to make the existence richer. There is not a single person who has come into the world empty." - OshO 

Rainbow

"Any one of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds." - Maya Angelou

Friendship

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity." - Khalil Gibran 

Friendship

"Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace."- Buddha

Emotions

"When we learn to manage our emotions long enough to stop and shift our attention to the quieter message of the heart, we can gain a wider perspective on any situation, often saving ourselves from hurt, frustration and pain."- Doc Childre and Howard Martin

Fly above it

"Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane." - Marianne Williamson

Change

"Your life does not change when your boss changes, when your friends change, when your parents change, when your partner changes, when your company changes. Your life changes when YOU change, when you go beyond your limiting beliefs, when you realize that you are the only one responsible for your life." - Author Unknown

Let go

"Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain.

The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?" - Mary Manin Morrissey

Heart Break

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be." - Charlie Tremendous Jones 

Logic

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein

Yourself

"Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect."- Rob Reiner 

Wealth

"The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money." 

- Benjamin Jowett 

Champion

"You don't have to win the game or the race to be a champion. Actually, your only true competition in life is yourself. If you strive to constantly improve, to make each day better, to make someone else's load a little lighter, and make someone's day a little brighter, then you will be living the life of a true champion." - Jace Carlton 

Serve

"Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't even have to make your subject and verb agree to serve...You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Serve

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." - Albert Schweitzer 

Grow

"Bless those who challenge us to grow, to stretch, to move beyond the knowable, to come back home to our essential nature. Bless those who challenge us for they remind us of doors we have closed and doors we have yet to open." - Native American Prayer

Happy

"The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person." - Brian Tracy 

Fear

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear." - Aung San Suu Kyi 

Giver of Light

"The key to everything is to remain inspired and not let the oppression of identity hold you. You are nothing but a giver of light." - Joseph Arthur 

Your view

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them" - Epictetus (Greek Philospher) 

Change

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change." - Dr. Wayne Dyer 

Young

"You're never too old to become younger." - Mae West 

Love

"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love." - Henry Drummond 

Love

"Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home." - Ravi Shankar