Focusing the Heart

"Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart" - Rumi

Thoughts

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." - Swami Vivekananda

Kindness

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu

Knowing yourself

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true

wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is

true power." - Lao-Tzu

Compete against Yourself

"The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself." - Billy Mills 

Cups

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out" - Ray Bradbury

Live

"Are you happy with yourself?
Are you doing what you like?
Gather courage and live the life you please.
Life belongs to those who dare to live." - Unknown

Selfish Nature

"You are uplifters to the core of your being. Part of your selfish nature is to revel in what feels good, and spread it so others may find it too." - Abraham-Hicks

Success

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they are to success before they gave up" - Thomas Edison

Your World

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha

Opportunities

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery guided by a private chart of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitude

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them" - Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands

Attitude

"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking." - David J. Schwartz

Lucky

"We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel" - Tim Rice

Dare

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." - Seneca 

Each Day

"Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success." - Louisa May Alcott

Future

"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open."- Lillian Smith

Live

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

Beauty

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka

Water

"Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!" - Kabir

The best day

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feel Good

"It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher." - Joe Vitale

Perfectly Placed

"If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that

is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed,

in exactly the right position . . . to make all the difference

in the world." - James Redfield, from: The Tenth Insight

Distance

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us" - Charles De Gaulle

Forward

"He who moves not forward, goes backward" - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe