GREATNESS

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" --Anne Frank


"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." --Anne Frank


“Trust yourself.  Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” --Golda Meir


"We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” --Marianne Williamson

"We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future." - Robin Sharma

RELIGION

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness." --Dalai Lama

PERSPECTIVE

It's ALL a matter of "perspective".....


One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live. They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.  On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?" "It was great, Dad." "Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked. "Oh yeah," said the son. "So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.  The son answered: "I saw that we have one dog and they had four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night. Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.  We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight. We have servants who serve us, but they serve others. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have walls around our property to protect us, they have family and friends to protect them," the son said. The boy’s father was speechless. Then his son added, "Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are.’"


"Differences challenge assumptions." --Anne Wilson Schaef

"What you see depends on what you you are looking for." --unknown

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." --Henry David Thoreau

"If you look for the bad in people, expecting to find it, you usually will."
--Abraham Lincoln

MY PURPOSE

“The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought to other people’s lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.” --Rabbi Harold Kushner



"I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy." --Og Mandino

"When you follow your bliss, you put yourself on the track that has been there all the while...you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open doors to you." --Joseph Campbell "The Power of Myth"


“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” –- Buddha

"Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan...getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and G-d put your there to deliver." --Carrie Louise Hamilton (daughter of Carol Burnett)


"In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away" --unknown

"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction." --unknown

"A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie
in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities
with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something
constructive to family and friends and to a home community;
that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible;
that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends,
and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly." --Eleanor Roosevelt

QUESTION EVERYTHING

"Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new." --Og Mandino


"Limitless possibilities await those who have the humility to admit they don't know it all. Prosperity is found by cultivating an attitude of lifelong learning." --Kevin Hall (Aspire; Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words)

LIMITLESS THOUGHTS

"Every man is what he is, because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind." --Napolean Hill

"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge." --Napolean Hill

"You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen... The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason..." --Richard Brandler

"The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing." --Richard Brandler


"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success." --Dorothea Brande

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." -- Mary Kay Ash


"We are unlimited beings, limited only by the concepts of limitation that we hold in our minds."--Hale Dwoskin quoting Lester Levenson

LIFE

"The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. The joy of life is to love." --William Arthur Ward

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." --Carol Burnett

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself.”
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Life has got to be lived -- that's all there is to it." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive." --Mel Brooks

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"- Vincent van Gogh


"This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy."-- Susan Polis Schutz

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." --- Groucho Marx

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is bliss, taste it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it." --Mother Teresa

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." --Danny Kaye

"Life is the sum of all your choices." --Albert Camus

"Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be." -- Grandma
Moses

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."  --Albert Einstein

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
--Abraham Lincoln

"Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."
-- Anthony Robbins

"Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing, it's about doing, being and becoming. It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make, it's about the things you choose to say - today. It's about what you're gonna do after you finish reading this." --Mike Dooley

"Life can be like a roller coaster...
And just when you think you've had enough,
and your ready to get off the ride and take the calm, easy merry-go round...
You change your mind, throw you hands in the air
and ride the roller coaster all over again.
That's exhilaration...that's living a bit on the edge...that's being ALIVE."--Stacy Charter