You Deserve

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

 - Maureen Dowd 

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