Don't Be Disappointed As Every One Has Them

"One of the first things successful people learn is that failures and disappointments are not the end.  Everyone has them, and the important thing is to learn from them.  Think of your failure as a challenge."

-- Barry Parker


"Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste."

-- GK Chesterton


"Where words fail, music speaks."

-- Hans Christian Andersen

To Eleminiate A Bad Habit

"Eleminating a bad habit means removing something from your routine.  Installing a new, more productive habit requires an entirely different skill set.  You're planting the tree, watering it, fertilizing it and making sure it's properly rooted.  Doing so takes effort, time and practice."

-- Darren Hardy


"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."

-- William Butler Yeats


"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

The Journey Inward and Upward

"The Journey inward and upward is much like the experience of climbing a mountain.  Sometimes the climb is tough.  But each time you stop to look around, the view becomes more and more spectacular.  And you are propelled higher by the increasing beauty you see."

-- Susan Jeffers


"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate."

-- O. Henry


"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

-- Maria Edgeworth

Enjoy and Learn Everything

"Lifestyle means expanding your knowledge and experiences from the influence of books, people, films and new adventures.  So take care to enjoy and learn from everything and everyone with whom you come in contact."

-- Jim Rohn


"Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily; If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow."

-- Eknath Easwaran


"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."

-- Yoko Ono

Failure Contains All The Clues

"Any failure is merely feedback about what's happening on the inside.  Failure contains all the clues necessary for you to learn what is standing in your way.  Failure is actually a gift, a built-in mechanism that contains all the answers you are looking for."

-- Sonia Ricotti


"If you see a whole thing -- it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin


"Be a ladder, not a leader."

-- Jayesh Patel

Step Back To Look At Your Beliefs

“Because your beliefs make you feel and act a certain way, your beliefs have the power to help you achieve your goals. Or to block your progress.  To continuously improve and gain that all-important 1 percent, you need to step back and look at your beliefs and change them if they aren’t working for you.”

-- Tom Connellan


"A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera."

-- Dorothea Lange


"Hope is the thing with feathers.That perches in the soul. And sings the tune without the words. And never stops at all."

-- Emily Dickinson

Pay The Success Price

"The best way to predict the future is to create it ourselves, whatever the circumstances.  Success is for people willing to pay the price."

-- Tey Bin Yuen


"Without the fundamentals, the details are useless."

-- James Clear


"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

You Become What You Think

"Thought is the most tremendous force in the universe.
Think kind thoughts ... you become kind.
Think happy thoughts ... you become happy.
Think success ... you become successful.
Think good thoughts ... you become good.
Think evil thoughts ... you become evil.
Think sickness ... you become sick.
Think health ... you become healthy.
YOU BECOME WHAT YOU THINK!"

-- W. Clement Stone

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

-- Charlotte Bronte 

Paving Your Way To Success

"Study setbacks to pave your way to success. When you lose, learn, and then go on to win next time.  Have the courage to be your own constructive critic. Seek out your faults and weaknesses and then correct them. This makes you a professional."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

-- Maya Angelou


"You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action."

-- Jerome Bruner

Sail Your Life To a New Direction

"Your habits are learned, therefore, they can be unlearned.  If you want to sail your life in a new direction, you have to first pick up the anchors of bad habits that have been weighing you down.  The key is to make your why-power so strong that it overwhelms your urges for instant gratification."

-- Darren Hardy


"The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it's intimacy."

-- Richard Bach


"The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand."

-- Robert Valett