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Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge

Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You only get out what you put in.
- Anonymous

You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

When you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.
When you can see that, you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues
have never been discovered.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone who has never made a mistake,
has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Your attitude determines your altitude.
- Zig Ziglar

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous

Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford

The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An "always been" does not mean I must choose "what must be."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Drive Change, don't wait for change to drive you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.
- Robert H. Goddard

While they were saying among themselves
it cannot be done, it was done.
- Helen Keller

Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous

With gratitude, all life appears as a blessing -
without gratitude, all of life
is perceived as a burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations.
For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller

We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I Dream with Powerful Vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous

Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Overcome obstacles - grow and bloom anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach

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

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

Appreciate the Unexpected.
- Anonymous

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill

Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never give up.
- Anonymous

They can because they think they can.
- Virgil

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie