Peter McWilliams: “Pain (any pain–emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, “Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.” Once we get the pain’s message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.”
Plutarch: “The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
Dale Carnegie: “If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.”
Madeleine L’Engle: “We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.”
Katharine Butler Hathaway: “It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.”
John F. Kennedy: “We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
Pearl Buck: “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”
Anne-Sophie Swetchine: “We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.”
Gore Vidal: “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.”
Louis I Kahn: “The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.”
Jerry Van Amerongen: “I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!”
Hugh Macleod: “If you have the creative urge, it isn’t going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.”
Hugh Macleod: “If you have the creative urge, it isn’t going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.”
Margaret Cho: “Iām not going to die because I failed as someone else. Iām going to succeed as myself.”
Zig Ziglar: “You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
Sophia Loren: “Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”
Bill Gates: “The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.”
Piero Ferrucci: “Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.”
Ellen DeGeneres: “Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower: “A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
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