Live life to the fullest!

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. 
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross  

not what but how

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it. 
- Thaddeus Golas 

Believe

"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution."

Dr. David Schwartz
Author of The Magic of Thinking Big 

Ql

Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. 
- Thomas Jefferson  

Others can stop you temporarily – you are the only one who can do it permanently

Zig Ziglar

Stream vs. rock

in the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always, wins - not through strength but by perseverance. 
- H. Jackson Brown                    

 

conquer

"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."

Maxwell Maltz
1899-1975, Author of Psycho-Cybernetics 

Is good enough?

"The first time you accept 'good' is the last time you will see excellence." John Ulmo

Friendship by R.W. Emerson

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile... 
it's the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him... 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you. 
- William Frederick Book

Detour

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. 
- Mary Kay Ash                 

 

Tomorrow

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. 
- Henry Ward Beecher

Goals..

"In the absence of clearly defined goals we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."

Robert Heinlein
Novelist

Acceptance

"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

William James
1842-1910, Psychologist and Author

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. 
- William J.H. Boetcker

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. 
- Albert Schweitzer             

 

 

 

 

 

  

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation. 
- Elton Trueblood

Anne Lamott

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. 
- Anne Lamott  

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, American First Lady, Author, Speaker and Politician

Beginner

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. 
- Barabra Sher  

Goethe

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. 
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution. 
- Dr. David Schwartz          

 

Expectancy

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. 
- Brian Tracy 

Do better

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. 
- William J.H. Boetcker  

Determination and perseverance

"Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail."

Marva Collins
Educator

Stressed

"When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter five years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go."


Catherine Pulsifer

Writer

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 

The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw