Carl Sandburg

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."

Hermann Hesse

"I have always believed that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."

Ella Fitzgerald

"Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Oscar Wilde

"To realize one's nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for."

Victor Borge

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."

Jacob Braude

"Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."

Thomas Edison

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

Lao Tzu

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion."

Michelangelo

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

William James

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

Truman Capote

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

Ruth Gordon

"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."

Grace Murray Hopper

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

Katherine Mansfield

"When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."

C. S. Lewis

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg."

Admiral William Halsey

"Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble."

Diane Ackerman

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Henry Miller

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience."

Ovid

"Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

Nido Qubein

“If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.”

Milan Kundera

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."

Anatole France

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

Mary Manin Morrissey

“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?”

Sir Winston Churchill

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

Louise Hay

“See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.”