"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm." -Harry Truman
"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we can never give enough of is love." - Henry Miller
"Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear of intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely." - Sharon Salzberg
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." -Martin Luther King Jr.
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection." -Buddha
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." -Theodore Roosevelt
"Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." -Winston Churchill
“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.” - Madame de Stael
No great thing is created suddenly. —Epictetus
"Your work is to discover your world & then with all your heart give yourself to it." -Buddha
"Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." -Robert Fulghum
"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -James Thurber
"I will ask my heart for guidance and be guided by its message of comfort or discomfort"
Deepak Chopra
"Work is love made visible." —Kahlil Gibran
"As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more."-Jules Renard
“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result."
-Gandhi
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” -Mother Teresa
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” -Buddha
“What does ‘happy’ mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.” ~ Abraham Maslow
“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.” ~ William James
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"The clouds above us join and separate,
The breeze in the yard leaves and returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?"
~Lu Yu
