Everything on

Everything on heaven and earth, all the minutes before this moment... have prepared you for today. Use all that you know to make it perfect. It is the sum total of your life.

~Zen to Zany

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Once you choose

Once you choose your path, watch for the miracles to begin showing up.

~Zen to Zany

We can only

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

~Native American proverb

We never know

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.

~ Emily Dickinson

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The aim of life

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

The purpose of life

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience…"

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The journey

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

– Lao Tzu

Change

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest blessing

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

~Bernard Baruch

In the last

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

~Bernard Baruch

To me, freedom

To me, freedom entitles you to do something,
not to not do something.

~Shel Silverstein

A nation

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

~Kemal Ataturk

You may be

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

~ Beverly Sills

Courage

Courage is like a muscle.
We strengthen it with use.

~ Ruth Gordon

Your daily life

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


~ KHALIL GIBRAN

Mama

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

~Zora Neale Hurston

There's no chance

“There's no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Tomorrow

"Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today."

~James T. Mccay

The pessimist

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

~John Maxwell

There came a time

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin