PASSION

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." -- Harriet Tubman

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." --Nelson Mandela

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." --George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."  --Albert Einstein

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." --Nelson Mandela

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it." --William James

JUDGMENT

"A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment." --Liz Carpenter

"Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity." --Jasmine Guy

"If you are pained by external things, it is not that they disturb you, but your own judgment of them.  And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment, now."  --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

     "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." --Carl Jung

"Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances." --Wayne Dyer

 

RELATIONSHIPS

“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.” --Rainer Maria Rilke

"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods." --Denis Waitley

"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster." --Quentin Crisp

LIFE FORCE

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”  --Martha Graham

"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts." --Napolean Hill

“Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process.  Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the lief of the organism.  It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about,  and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritural energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected."  --Kabbalah

PERSEVERANCE

"Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance.  As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us." --Winston Churchill

revised Winston Churchill quote: I am this date and forever more the master of my fate. There is no task that will come before me that is above my strength and endurance. As long as I have faith in my own cause and purpose in life and an unconquerable will to win, succeed and achieve, I will not be denied my victory.

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The difference between try and triumph is a little umph." --Unknown

“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 are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” -- Calvin Coolidge

OPPORTUNITY

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat." --Napoleon Hill

"When the student is ready the teacher will appear." Buddhist Proverb

Open your minds to the teachers that are out there in life ready, willing and able to teach you the lessons life wants to teach you.

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." --Winston Churchill

BEAUTY

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." --Confucius

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder." --H.G. Wells

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. " --Anne Frank

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. " --Ashley Smith