favorite quotes

"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He that can have patience can have what he will." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"He that would have fruit must climb the tree." ~ Thomas Fuller

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~ George Eliot

"This above all: to thine own self be true." ~ William Shakespeare

‎"everything can be taken from man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." ~ Viktor E. Frankl, MD, PhD

‎"It is well to get clearly in your mind the fact that our disturbed feelings--our anger, hostility, fear, anxiety, insecurity, are caused by our own responses--not by externals." ~ Maxwell Maltz, MD, FICS

‎"Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius." ~ Georges de Buffon

‎"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." ~ Sallust
‎"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it." ~ Epicurus

‎"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." ~ Helen Keller
"Chance favors the prepared mind." ~ Louis Pasteur

‎"One resolution I have made, and try to always keep, is this: To rise above the little things." ~ John Burroughs

‎"Have the mental posture for success. Believe you are capable of achieving it." ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

‎"The truth is that we *hear* what we're prepared to *hear*. We *learn* what we're prepared to *learn*. We *discover* and *comprehend* what we're prepared to *discover* and *comprehend*." ~ Ron Willingham

"you are pure potential" ~ maat

‎"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind." ~John Neal

‎"What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and will give unity and direction to our life. We can never know the profoundest joy without a conviction that our life is significant -- not a meaningless episode." ~ Henry S. Golding.

"You are continuously broadcasting what you think of yourself." ~ Napoleon Hill

"the key to the matter of whether you are disturbed or tranquil, fearful or composed, *is not* the external stimulus, whatever it may be, but *your own response and reaction*" ~ Maxwell Maltz, MD, FICS

‎"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it." ~ Colonel Michael Friedsman

"What we love, we shall grow to resemble." ~ Bernard of Clairvaux

"Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so." ~ Emile Coue'

"Give to the world the best you have and the best will come back to you." ~ Madeline Bridges

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined." ~ Henry David Thoreau

‎"Choices are the hinges of destiny." ~ Edwin Markham

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Happiness...consists in giving, and in serving others." ~ Henry Drummond

‎"The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too." ~ Herbert Samuels

‎"Don't pursue happiness ~ create it." ~ fortune cookie