Barbra Streisand: “A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”
Ann Richards: “There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.”
Pablo Picasso: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”
Latvian Proverb: “A smiling face is half the meal.”
Carlos Castaneda: “Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it – what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”
Ali Vincent: “Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.”
John Gray: “It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.”
Lois McMaster Bujold: “I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.”
Langston Coleman: “Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.”
Martin Luther King Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Diane Wakoski: “Learning to live what you’re born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.”
Walter Pater: “What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.”
Judy Grahn: “What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.”
John F. Kennedy: “So, let us not be blind to our differences – but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.”
Sean O’Faolain: “There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use being anything else.”
J. K. Rowling: “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”
Oprah Winfrey: “Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.”
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran: “Being manipulative is dishonest and immature. We often end up having to make up more lies to cover for inconsistencies in our original manipulation. In addition, it sets a terrible example for our children. While it may solve your initial problem, the tangled web that grows from such dishonesty is more trouble than it’s worth.”
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