How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now. 

~ Gerald Jampolsky

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. You must get the old furniture of what you know, think, and believe out before anything new can get in. Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

~ Dee Hock

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality. As Napoleon observed, “No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.”

~ Dee Hock

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

~ Napoleon Hill

I now believe this without question: Income, position, the opinions of one’s friends, the judgments of one’s peers, and all the other traditional criteria by which human beings are judged are for the birds. The only question is — can you hang on through the crap they throw at you and not lose your freedom or your good sense.

~ James Michener

It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment. 

~ Naomi Williams

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. 

~ Abraham Lincoln

It is never to late to be what you might have been.

~ George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans)

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

~ Julius Charles Hare

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

~ John Lennon

Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

~ Virginia Satir

If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

~ Carla Gordon

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

~ Carl Jung

I heard a bird sing
in the dark of December.
A magical thing
and sweet to remember.

“We are nearer to Spring
than we were in September.”

~ Oliver Herford

Success does not result from spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

~ Fred Shero

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. 

~ Ferdinand Foch