Being on a tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda

Believe that your life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
- William James

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
- Anonymous

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- George Eliot

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
- Leo Buscaglia

Conform and be dull.
- James Frank Dobie

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
- Jerry Garcia

Do not wait for leaders: do it alone, person to person
- Mother Teresa

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.
- Harold Whitman

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

Energy, like the biblical grain of mustard seed, will remove mountains.
- Hosea Ballou

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
- Anonymous

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
- Katherine Whitehorn

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.
- Shigenori Kameoka

Follow your bliss.
- Joseph Campbell

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
- Mahatma Gandhi

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.
- Henry Miller

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind.
- Carl Jung

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
- Maya Angelou

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
- Cher

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
- Antonio Porchia, Voices

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

It is necessary to hope ... for hope itself is happiness.
- Samuel Johnson

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
- W. Edwards Deming

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antione de Saint-Exupery

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
- Alan Cohen

I've lived a long life and seen a lot of hard times, most of which never happened.
- Mark Twain

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Justice is truth in action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
- Danny Kaye

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

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.
- Phil Jackson

May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Smith

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren

Money often costs too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
- James Baldwin

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.
- Eric Hoffer

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide

Optimism is an intellectual choice.
- Diana Schneider

Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Samuel Johnson

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein, Three Rules of Work

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
- Goldie Hawn

The certainty of misery is better than the misery of uncertainty.
- Pogo comic strip

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
- Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor

The future depends on what we do in the present.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The really happy [person] is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
- Anonymous

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
- George Eliot

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Anonymous

There are two ways of spreading light -- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is more to life than increasing it's speed.
- Mahatma Gandhi

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
- Anonymous

Vision isn't a template in PowerPoint.
- Roger McNamee

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
- Mary Kay Ash

Whenever you fall, pick something up.
- Oswald Avery

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
- Albert Einstein

You cannot depend of your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain

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