To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a bit better. This is success. RWE
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting, they died. - Author Unknown
For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. - Alan Watts
Faith in life, in other people, and in oneself - is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time. - Alan Watts
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world for ever, it seems. - Arthur OβShaughnessy
I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will greet this day with love in my heart. - Og Mandino
Commitment is not to be confused with effort. Often times, effort is determined by how harshly we push, whereas commitment is simply a matter of how consistently we show up. - Matt Kahn
When you are expecting something you are passive, hoping someone will do something. It requires no courage or creativity from you to have an expectation. It keeps you in a womb of inert, flaccid, motionless anticipation. You float anxiously in your little circle of inactivity.