When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others ~ Anais Nin

Pay no attention to what critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. ~ Jean Sibelius

Remember that today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. ~ Dale Carnegie

Inspiration usually comes during work - not before it. ~Madeline L'Engle

Live your life as an experiment. ~ Trungpa Rinpoche

One hundred percent of the shots you do not take do not go in. ~ Wayne Gretsky

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Bloom where you are planted.

He copes, like everybody else, as well as he can, thats all. ~ Carl Jung

Seldom does an induvidual exceed her expectations. ~ Unknown

Decide that you want it more then you are afraid of it. ~ Bill Cosby

If there is light in the soul

there will be beauty in the person

If there is beauty in the person

there will be harmony in the house

if there is harmony in the house

there will be order in the nation

if there is order in the nation

there will be peace in the world.

~ Chinese Proverb

Peace begins at home ~ FDR

All that you have shall someday be given; so give now that the season of giving might be yours and not your inheritors ~ Kahlil Gibran

You don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great. ~ Zig Ziglar

Don't be afraid your life will never end, be afraid that it will never begin. ~ Grace Hansen

There is no need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple. My philosophy is kindness. ~ HIs Holiness, Dalai Lama

As good as you can take it thats as good as it gets.

Samsara is your mind. Nirvana is also your mind. ~ Tsele Natsok Rangdrol

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken: that time is now. ~ Buddha

Make a habit of two things: to help or to do no harm.

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. ~ James Dean

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who kept trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~ Dale Carnegie

Shoot for the moon - even if you miss you will land above the stars. ~Les Brown

When you are content to simply be yourself and don't compete or compare, everyone will respect you. ~ Lao Tzu

Every single event in life happens as an oppurunity to choose love over fear. ~ Oprah

Don't be so humble, you are not that great. ~ Golda Meir

You will never find the time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it. ~ Charles Buxton

A hero is no braver then an ordinary man but he is braver five minutes longer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~ Carlos Casteneda

Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Only I can change my life. No one else can do it for me. ~ Carol Burnett

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ~ Erica Jong

We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are. ~ Anais Nin

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you will be critisized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, damned if you don't. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Any fool can critisize, condemn and complain and most fools do. ~ Dale Carnegie

We are what we think. All that arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. ~ Buddha

The best way to predict your future is to create it. ~ Unknown

Negative action has one good quality; that it can be purified. ~ Tibetan Saying

The way to suceed is to double your error rate. ~ Thomas J. Watson

Things do not change. We change. ~ Henry David Thoreau

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar. ~ Helen Keller

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught to fly. ~ Barbara J. Winter

Never doubt that a small group of citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~ Maragret Mead

...I am convinced that ten percent of life is what happens to me and ninety percent is how I react to it. ~ Charles Swindoll

If you are going through hell - keep going. ~ Winston Churchill

Its not that I have confidence, but I believe if I fail, so what? Now I have the chance to try again. ~ Maya Angelou

If you can't laugh at yourself then you leave the job to others. ~ Unknown

How wonderful that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank

Now the thing that I call livin, is noing I got no one left to blame ~ Gordon Lightfoot

Do or do not do. There is no try. ~ Yoda

There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so. ~ Shakespeare

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Ghandi

If you can't feed a hundred people then just feed one. ~ Mother Teresa

Some cause happiness wherever they go, some whenever they go. ~ Oscar Wilde

The man is richest who's pleasures are the cheapest. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Notice what you notice. ~ Allen Ginsberg

He who would travel happily must travel light. ~ Antoine de Saint

I know for sure that what we dwell on is what we become. ~ Oprah

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I am an old man and I have known a great many troubles. But most of them never happened. ~ Mark Twain

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. ~ Pink Floyd

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey, we are spiritual beings on a human journey. ~ Stephen Convey

You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough. ~ Mae West

Be kind. Remember that everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~ Thompson

When you learn, teach. When you get, give. ~ Maya Angelou

Friendship with ones self is all important because without it no one can be friends with anyone else in the world. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I know God will not give me anything I can handle, I just wish he didn't trust me so much! ~ Mother Teresa

When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would be a door, and where there would not have been a door for anyone else. ~ Joseph Campbell

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for. ~ Oprah

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. ~ Maya Angelou

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life. ~ Harvey Mackay

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why do you take by force that which you could obtain by love? ~ Powhatan

Love is not what we become but who we already are. ~ Stephen Levine

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. ~ English proverb

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. ~ Blaine Lee

We'd never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
and then, if we are true to plan,
our statures touch the sky.

~ Emily Dickinson

Failure is the oppurtunity to start again, this time more wisely. ~ Unknown

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up everytime we do ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret in happiness is not doing what one likes to do, but liking what one has to do. ~ Unknown

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling. ~Margaret B. Runbeck

We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. ~ Carl Jung

If you feel you have no faults - there is another one. ~ Unknown

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. ~ William James

The more a man knows, the more he forgives. ~ Catherine the Great

Are you willing to be sponged out, cancelled, erased, made nothing? If not, you will never really change. ~ DH Lawrence

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefor is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle

Whether you think you can or think you can't you are right. ~ Henry Ford

To return again to where I am, I make this journey ~ Dante

You are the light of the world. ~ Jesus to the people

You already own the costly elixir that will heal you. You only have to use it. ~ Rumi

There came a time when staying tight within the bud became more painful then the strain it took to bloom. ~ Anais Nin

The only devils are the ones in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought. ~ Ghandi

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether or not I am afraid. ~ Audre Lorde