"Man doesn't fail, he only stops trying."
--Anonymous

"People talk about 'finding' their lives. In reality, your life is not something you find - it's something you create."
--David Phillips

"Life is too short to be little"--Disraeli

"Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings."
--Andre Maurois

"Not much has changed since then. As adults (more or less), we’re enthralled by closed doors and velvet ropes, held at bay by guest-list checkers, gatekeepers and membership committees. What’s the matter with us? Are we social masochists? Is our need to belong so great that it trumps self-respect? Yes, of course! And not just belong, but belong to something just far enough above our regular stations so as to elevate our opinion of ourselves, if not others’"
--Tom Connor

"When we have created a possibility, it’s not something we’re trying to do. Nor is it a matter of in-order-to. Questions like “will it happen or not,” or “do we need to do ‘X’ in-order-to get to ‘Y’,” aren’t really relevant to possibility. When we create a new possibility for ourselves, it does exist. It’s present in the world—not as a physical phenomenon, but as possibility. "
--Dr. Nancy Zapolski

"Today we come across an individual who behaves like an automaton, who does not know or understand himself, and the only person that he knows is the person that he is supposed to be, whose meaningless chatter has replaced communicative speech, whose synthetic smile has replaced genuine laughter, and whose sense of dull despair has taken the place of genuine pain.”
-- Eric Fromm

"If you don't place a high value on your talents, who will? If you don't think highly of yourself, why would anyone?"
--Edge Keynote