Wally "Famous" Amos

"Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it."

Saadi

"Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl."

Thomas Merton

"My God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me, I cannot know for certain where it will end … but I will not fear, for you are ever with me."

Nelson Mandela

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

Shunryu Suzuki

"In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts there are few."

Lord Buddha

"The person should look for peace within and not depend on it in any other place. There are no waves in the depths of the ocean, it is still and unbroken."

Eddie Vedder

"If he's truly out of sight, is he truly out of mind?"

William Butler Yeats

"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."

Mary Catherine Bateson

"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."

Rabbi Hillel

"I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing."

Kurt Vonnegut

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."

Chinese Proverb

You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair.

Plutarch

"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Sarah Bernhardt

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."

Robert Altman

"To play it safe is not to play."

Kierkegaard

"The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wants me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live or die."

Unknown

"Love is the willingness to give up a part of yourself you think you know, to discover a part of yourself you never knew existed."

Jack Lemmon

"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."

Fay Weldon

"If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

George Bernard Shaw

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

Steve Jobs

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

George Sheehan

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."

Leo Tolstoy

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."