Wisdom

"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates 

Intelligent

"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Beginning

"Every ending is simply a new beginning. Nothing ends, nothing. All is a beginning. Welcome to the new now." - Author Unknown

Gratitude

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melodie Beattie

Failure

"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost." - Helen Keller 

Belief

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." - Claude M. Bristol

Angry

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." - Aristotle 

Questioning

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein 

Forgiveness

"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time."
Sara Paddison

Nature

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein

Daily Life

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all." - Kahlil Gibran 

Laughter

"Laughter is an instant vacation." - Milton Berle 

human

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility." - Vaclav Havel

Keep good company

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus 

Winner

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." - Zig Ziglar 

Peace

"Peace in ourselves, peace in the world." - Thich Nhat Hanh

Wisdom

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Khalil Gibran 

Time

"When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free." - Marcia Wieder

Future

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present." - Albert Camus 

Imagination

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world." - Blaise Pascal

Life

"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit." - Bill Clinton 

Perfection

"Welcoming imperfection is the way to accomplish what perfectionism promises but never delivers. It gives us our best performance and genuine acceptance in the family of human - and by that I mean imperfect beings." - Martha Beck

Change

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin

Power

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." - Voltaire 

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