2900+ Inspirational Quotations for a Better Living

2900+ Inspirational Quotations for a

Better Living

By

Guggu V

Copyright 2013 Guggu V

Smashwords Edition

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"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth."― William W. Purkey

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.― Oscar Wilde

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.― Mahatma Gandhi

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.― Mahatma Gandhi

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

Without music, life would be a mistake.― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.― Marilyn Monroe

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.― Albert Einstein

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.― Bil Keane

we accept the love we think we deserve.― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.― Albert Einstein

"The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, its indifference.

The opposite of faith is not heresy, its indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, its indifference."― Elie Wiesel

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.― Thomas A. Edison

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

It is never too late to be what you might have been.― George Eliot

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.― Marilyn Monroe

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.― Theodore Roosevelt

Everything you can imagine is real.― Pablo Picasso

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.― Maya Angelou

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.― Shel Silverstein

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.― Helen Keller

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.― Audrey Hepburn

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.― John Lennon

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.― Winston Churchill

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You’re playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

A person's a person, no matter how small.― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.― C.S. Lewis

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.― George Bernard Shaw

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.― Maya Angelou

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

And, when you want something, the entire universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey

Well-behaved women seldom make history.― Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.― Maya Angelou

Nothing is impossible; the word itself says 'I'm possible'!― Audrey Hepburn

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.― Paulo Coelho, Alchemist

"For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."― Sam Levenson

Peace begins with a smile...― Mother Teresa

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.― Eleanor Roosevelt

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.― Thomas Stephen Szasz

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.― Dalai Lama XIV

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.― Mahatma Gandhi

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.― Ralph Waldo Emerson

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.― Mahatma Gandhi

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.― Margaret Mead

Whatever you are, be a good one.― Abraham Lincoln

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction.

No, read in order to live."― Gustave Flaubert

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

May you live every day of your life.― Jonathan Swift

Always do what you are afraid to do.― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?― L.M. Montgomery

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.― Andrew Wolfe

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, moral, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope."― Alexandre Dumas

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.― Martin Luther King Jr.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.― John F. Kennedy

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.― Bob Marley

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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, On the Road

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.― Arthur Schopenhauer

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists... it is real... it is possible... it's yours.― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without the wordsAnd never stops at all.― Emily Dickinson

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.― Maya Angelou

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.― Paul McCartney, The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?― Mother Teresa

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.― Martin Luther King Jr.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.― Ralph Waldo Emerson

None but ourselves can free our minds.― Bob Marley

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.― Albert Schweitzer

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.― Robert Louis Stevenson

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.― Lloyd Alexander

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.― Walt Disney Company

Turn your wounds into wisdom.― Oprah Winfrey

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.― Max Lucado

What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.― Taylor Swift

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.― St. Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.― Leonardo da Vinci

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.― Gautama Buddha

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.― Leonardo da Vinci

Try a little harder to be a little better.― Gordon B. Hinckley

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.― John Green, Looking for Alaska

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.― John Lennon

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.― Oscar Wilde

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.― Eleanor Roosevelt

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.― Maya Angelou

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.― Mahatma Gandhi

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

To me, Fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.― Taylor Swift

You never fail until you stop trying.― Albert Einstein

One love, one heart, one destiny.― Bob Marley

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting,so... get on your way!― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,Whispering 'it will be happier'...― Alfred Tennyson

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies,you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself,you reconcile all beings in the world.― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.― Theodore Roosevelt

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that

something else is more important than fear."― Meg Cabot

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.― P.C. Cast, Betrayed

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.― Abraham Lincoln

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven...― John Milton, Paradise Lost

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.― William G.T. Shedd

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

"Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing

can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity

to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel

that there is something in them

To look at the sunny side of everything

and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others

as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past

and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times

and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself

that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds.

To live in faith that the whole world is on your side

so long as you are true to the best that is in you."― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.― George Orwell, 1984

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.― Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.― Stephenie Meyer, The Host

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.― Jim Morrison

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.― J.K. Rowling

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

War is peace.Freedom is slavery.Ignorance is strength.― George Orwell, 1984

The thing about growing up with Fred and George, said Ginny thoughtfully, is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, Yes! It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.― Oriah Mountain Dreamer

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.― Mark Twain

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.― Sarah Dessen

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.― Dalai Lama XIV

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?― Rumi

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.― Barack Obama

In the end these things matter most:How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?― Gautama Buddha

It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog. ― Mark Twain

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form: Graphic Works, 1895-1972

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people."― John Henry Newman

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.― Philip Pullman

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?― Gautama Buddha

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.― Galileo Galilee

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.― Mary Schmich

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!― Maya Angelou

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.― Gautama Buddha

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller

If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.― Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.― Santosh Kalwar,