Sunday, March 26, 2023

 If you have no struggles, you’ll have no strength. Tim Fargo

Never give up. Great things take time. Frank Zane

Growth is overrated. Endurance is underrated. Shane Parrish

Problems are messages. Shakti Gawain

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse

Every moment is a fresh beginning.”- T.S. Eliot

Make each day your masterpiece.”- John Wooden

Tough times never last, but tough people do.”- Dr. Robert Schuller

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”- George Addair
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”- Bruce Lee

The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?”- Steve Schulte

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”- Albert Einstein

When you accomplish the impossible then you can achieve anything.” ― Stephen Richards

If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disney

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S Lewis


 Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream."

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."

Even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream."

A right delayed is a right denied."

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."

Be a voice. Not an echo.

Silence is an answer too.

Every wall is a door. Ralph Waldo Emerson

If youth knew; if age could. Sigmund Freud

Time is the soul of this world. Pythagoras

Life is short, death is forever. Chuck Palahniuk

Stars can’t shine without darkness.

Be who you needed when you were young.

It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso

Life begins where fear ends. Osho

Find what you love and let it kill you. Charles Bukowski

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. Will Rogers

Freedom is taking what comes. Maxime Lagacé

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. Pablo Picasso

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. William Blake

Hearts are wild creatures, that’s why our ribs are cages.

Peace of mind is freedom from desire. Shane ParrishThe less you want, the richer you are. 

It’s so strange that autumn is so beautiful, yet everything is dying

You have to be odd to be number one. Dr. Seuss

Wherever you are, be there totally. Eckhart Tolle

The quieter you become, the more you can hear. Ram Dass

If you lose your temper, you lose. Richard Diaz

Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

The more you care, the stronger you can be. Jim Rohn

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Anais Nin

Strength is a matter of a made up mind. John Beecher

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. Ludwig van Beethoven

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. Henry Rollins

Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. Bruce Lee

 Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. Christopher Reeve

If it matters to you, you’ll find a way. Charlie Gilkey

She believed she could, so she did.

The past does not equal the future. Tony Robbins

Forget about style; worry about results. Bobby Orr

When nothing goes right, go left.

Every noble work is at first impossible. Thomas Carlyle

You matter.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith. Plato

Live the moment.

Keep going.

Do it. With love.

Keep your chin up.

Relax. Seriously. Ryan Holiday

Paradise is a mindset. Maxime Lagacé

Now is all you have.

Keep moving forward.

Fear less. Love more.

Collect moments – not things.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude."

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true educatio

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one’s whole being into the being of another.”

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”

 The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Nelson Mandela

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” —Walt Disney”

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” —Confucius

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” —Benjamin Franklin

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” —Robert Frost

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” —Maya Angelou

“Do, or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” —C.S. Lewis

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” —Walter Winchell

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” —David Tyson

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” —Thomas J. Watson

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” —Unknown

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” —Oscar Wilde

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” —Arnold H. Glasgow

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” —Plutarch

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” —Eugene Kennedy

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” —Arnold H. Glasgow

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” —Muhammad Ali

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” —Marcel Proust

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” —Charles Lamb

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” —Zig Ziglar

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” —Woodrow Wilson

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” —Elisabeth Foley

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” —Anais Nin

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” —Donna Roberts

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” —Maxwell Maltz

The only way out is through. Robert Frost

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful. Annette Funicello

The ego wants comfort and certainty. The soul wants to live fully. Maxime Lagacé

Take the risk or lose the chance.

You can totally do this.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller

The fastest road to meaning and success: choose one thing and go all in. Maxime Lagacé

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Winston Churchill

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett

Impossible is for the unwilling. John Keats

You can if you think you can. George Reeves

Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln

Broken crayons still color.

 The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem

“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” —Zig Ziglar

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” —John Muir

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who ind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” —Dr. Suess

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” —Mark Twain

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

 “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” —Oscar Wilde

“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” —Malcolm X

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” —John Lennon

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” —Mother Teresa

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” —Abraham Lincoln

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky

“You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” —Elvis Presley

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

 The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.” —Jesse Owens

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” —Kobe Bryant

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” —Helen Keller

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.” —Oprah Winfrey

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” —John Wooden

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon B. Johnson

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis

“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou

“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” —Deep Roy

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.”  —E. E. Cummings

“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.”  —Ella Fitzgerald

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” —Hafez

“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” —Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” —John Barrymore

“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” —Mandy Hale

“You are enough just as you are.” —Meghan Markle

 It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.” —Anthony Robbins

“The greater damage for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it it too low and we reach it.” —Michelangelo

“Do not go where the path may lead , go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” —Muhammad Ali

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” —Lao Tzu

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” —Shonda Rhimes

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” —Helen Keller

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”  —Maya Angelou

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

 Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”– Sarah Dessen

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou

“Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway

“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” – Earl Nightingale

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anais Nin

“The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” – R. G. Ingersoll

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

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”~ Winston Churchill

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” ~  Seneca

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.” ~ John Quincy Adams

“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both!” ~ Brene Brown

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” ~ Billy Graham

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides

“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” ~ Steve Jobs

 “All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” ~ Earl Nightingale

“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” ~ Hermann Hesse

Inner strength is measured by what we can bear and how long” ~ Invajy

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” ~ Bob Marley

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”  ~ Seneca

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” ~ Otto Rank

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” ~ Napoleon Hill

Silence is a source of great strength. ~ Lao Tzu

“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.” ~ John Bradshaw


  Experience teaches only the teachable.” Aldous Huxley The best lessons I ever learned in life came from the worst experiences in my life....