Our Deepest Fear

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love

The above quote is sometimes erroneously attributed to Nelson Mandela

Usefulness

"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is a Mirror

"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you."

--Wally 'Famous' Amos

Each Day

"One should count each day a separate life."

--Seneca

Excellence vs. Perfection

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."

--Michael J. Fox

Failure vs. Success

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

--George Burns

Losing Everything

"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

--Burnadette Devlin

Liking People

"If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back."

--Lois McMaster Bujold

Success

"You don’t need to win every medal to be successful."

--Jason Fried

Life and Death

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

--A. Sachs

Home

"There's no place like home."

--Dorothy

Trusting Oneself

"A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else."

--Cardinal de Retz

Dreams

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."

--Dale E. Turner

Saying Nice Things

"Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?"

--Randy K. Milholland

Soft

"Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view."

--George Bush

Aiming High

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."

--Kurt Lewin

Make a Life

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

--Sir Winston Churchill

Taking Chances

"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean."

--Christopher Reeve

Selfishness

"If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities."

--Ann Richards

Happiness

"The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do."

--James M. Barrie

Who We Become

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."

--Oprah Winfrey

Do Something

"In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do."

--Dorothea Dix

Try

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."

--Mother Teresa

Being Idle

"Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."

--George McDonald

Looking Forward

"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective."

--George C. Marshall

Complaining

"Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious."

--Og Mandino

Tall Trees

"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit."

--Sir Walter Scott

Growing Old

"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."

--Terry Pratchett

Good vs. Evil

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

--Edmund Burke

Time

"All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that."

--Baltasar Gracian

Hands Full

"If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive."

--Dorothee Solle

Worth Trying

"The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done."

--Allard Lowenstein

Wearing Out

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."

--Bishop Richard Cumberland

Enjoying Life

"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."

--Marquis de Condorcet

Painting Life

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can."

--Danny Kaye

Success

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

--Maya Angelou

Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."

--Lawana Blackwel

Lighten the Burden

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

--Charles Dickens

Experience

"Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes."

--James A. Froude

Losing Self

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

--Arthur Schopenhauer

State of Mind

"Cheerfulness is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us."

--Charlotte Bronte

Tears

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

--Harriet Beecher Stowe