“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.”
   - Jackie "Moms” Mabley.

“If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what  you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're  doing.”
   - Will Rogers

“TRUTH: The truth is more important than the facts.”
   - Frank Lloyd Wright

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
   - Bacon

“Saying is one thing, doing another”
   - Michel de Montaigne  (1533 - 1592)

“You can't be afraid of what people will say. You have to be brave and take risks.”

    - Charles M. Shulz

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

    - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”

    - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“.....but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute.....look at it and really see it ... live it ... and never give it back.”

    - Erma Bombeck

“Celebrate good times, come on!”

    - Kool and the Gang

“Rituals are for celebrating...for marking passage from one stage of life to another.”

    - Barbara DeAngelis

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds  in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

    - Mark Twain

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”

    - Samuel Johnson

“Second thoughts have aborted more dreams than all the difficult circumstances, overwhelming obstacles, and dangerous detours fate ever could throw at you.”

    - Sarah Ban Breathnach

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.  The worst thing you can do is nothing.”

    - Theodore Roosevelt

“People do their best work when they are passionately engaged in what they are doing.”

    - Erie S. Raymond in FastCompany

“In every triumph there's a lot of try.”

    - Frank Tyger

“Everyone has his own specific vocation in life...Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated...Thus everyone's task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. We detect rather than invent our mission in life.”

    - Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning

“The difference between insanity and genius is success.”

    - Jonathan Price - Tomorrow Never Dies

“The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

    - Marcel Proust

“Pursuing dreams requires bravery, discipline, patience, and ingenuity, yet these are qualities every one of us possess -- if we're willing to do the hard work that dreams demand, if we're willing to honor our creative process instead of fighting it.“

    - Suzanne Falter-Barnes

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.“

    - Abraham Maslow.

“The clearer the vision, the less you need goals to motivate your actions.“

    - Thomas Leonard

“He had a vision of the future and just how he was going to build it, and his enthusiasm was so great that he just swept everyone along with him.“

    - Cher on her husband Sonny Bono

“Clarity evaporates fear.“

    - Gary Zukav - The Seat of the Soul

“You miss 100% of the shots you never take”.

    - Wayne Gretzsky, professional hockey player

“Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? Answer: five. Why? Because there's a difference between deciding and doing”

    - Mark L. Feldman & Michael F. Spratt - Five Frogs on a Log

“If your work isn't what you love, then something isn't right.“

    - Talking Heads