When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them--that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ~ Lao Tzu

There are three constants in life...change, choice and principles. ~Stephen Covey

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. ~ Dalai Lama

There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ~ William James

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. John C. Maxwell

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. —Arthur Schopenhauer

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. —Martin H. Fischer

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. —Harry Truman

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. —Albert Einstein

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. —Dee Hock

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —George Bernard Shaw

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. —Michael Althsuler

A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! —Pablo Sarasate

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. —Albert Einstein

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. —Abraham Lincoln

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. —Barry LePatner

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. —Wallace Wattles

Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand —Chinese Proverb

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. —Alfred Adler

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. —Harold Stephens

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. —Oscar Wilde

 I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. —Bill Cosby

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. —Alfred A. Montapert

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. —Albert Einstein

You can never get enough of what you don’t really need. —Eric Hoffer

 If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. —Frank Wilczek

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. —William Arthur Ward

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. —Daniel J. Boorstin

Eighty percent of success is showing up. —Woody Allen

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. —Albert Einstein

Love has no age, no limit; and no death. ~ John Galsworthy

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ~ George Orwell

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. ~ Walt Whitman

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~ Sun Tzu

Independence is happiness. ~ Susan B. Anthony

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. ~ Thomas Carlyle

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. ~ Napoleon Hill

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. ~ George Washington

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ~ Khalil Gibran

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night. ~ William Blake

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ~ Jane Austen

Learning never exhausts the mind. ~Leonardo da Vinci

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. ~ Henry James

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward. ~ Amelia Earhart

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

There is nothing permanent except change.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.