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“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”

GAIL SHEEHY
AUTHOR
RISING ABOVE

“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ”

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, U.S. SUPREME COURT
COURTESY

“An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in. ”

MIKE HERNACKI
AUTHOR
LEARNING

“Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ”

E.P. POWELL
AMERICAN AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST
GRATITUDE

“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. ”

OPRAH WINFREY
AMERICAN TELEVISION HOST, PUBLISHER
LISTENING

“We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation. ”

HH THE DALAI LAMA
SPIRITUAL LEADER AND FORMER HEAD OF STATE OF TIBET.
MOTIVATION

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

C.S. LEWIS
WRITER, THEOLOGIAN, SCHOLAR
FRIENDSHIP

“Happiness is always a by-product. You don't make yourself happy by chasing happiness. You make yourself happy by being a good person.”

UNKNOWN
DO YOUR PART

“In the face of uncertainty there is nothing wrong with hope.”

O. CARL SIMONTON
ONCOLOGIST
HOPE

“Have the courage of your desire.”

GEORGE R. GISSING
ENGLISH NOVELIST
COURAGE

“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son! ”

RUDYARD KIPLING
POET, AUTHOR
LIVE LIFE

“I don't think about what I have done. I only think of the things I want to do, and I haven't done.”

MARTHA GRAHAM
AMERICAN MODERN DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER
AMBITION

“The greatest oak was once a little nut that held its ground.”

UNKNOWN
DETERMINATION

“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”

DAN MILLMAN
AUTHOR, GYMNASTICS WORLD CHAMPION
OVERCOMING

“If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. ”

NORMAN COUSINS
EDITOR, WRITER
HELPING OTHERS

“So act that your principle of action might safely be made law for the whole world. ”

IMMANUEL KANT
GERMAN PHILOSOPHER
INTEGRITY

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”

WILLIAM JAMES
PSYCHOLOGIST, PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR
LEARNING

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict. ”

RABINDRANATH TAGORE
POET, PLAYWRIGHT, ESSAYIST
LOVE

“Some things have to be believed to be seen. ”

MARK VICTOR HANSEN
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER, AUTHOR
BELIEVE

“Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. ”

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

J.K. ROWLING
NOVELIST
COMPASSION

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars... ”

JACK KEROUAC
AMERICAN NOVELIST AND POET
PASSION

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.”

THOMAS EDISON
INVENTOR, BUSINESSMAN
EXCELLENCE

“All endings are beginnings, we just don't know it at the time.”

MITCH ALBOM
AUTHOR, SCREENWRITER, MUSICIAN
OPPORTUNITY

“The adventure of life is to learn. The goal of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The secret of life is to dare. The beauty of life is to give. The joy of life is to love!”

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
AUTHOR, EDUCATOR, MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
LIVE LIFE

“Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man. ”

HĀFIZ
PERSIAN POET
HUMILITY

“It may seem absurd to believe that a 'primitive' culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth, an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned. ”

HELENA NORBERG-HODGE
FOUNDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ECOLOGY AND CULTURE
COMMON GROUND

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”

FERDINAND FOCH
FRENCH SOLDIER, THEORIST
SOUL

“Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew. ”

GRACE HOPPER
COMPUTER SCIENTIST, NAVAL OFFICER
LEADERSHIP

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

OSCAR WILDE
NOVELIST, PLAYWRIGHT
CHARACTER

“Once we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life. ”

HARRY HEPNER
APPRECIATION

“Thanks for showing me that even on the darkest, rainiest days the sun is still there, just behind the clouds, waiting to shine again.”

LISA HARLOW
OPTIMISM

“Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”

CHRISTOPHER REEVE
ACTOR, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, AND WRITER; BEST KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE AS SUPERMAN
COURAGE
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