Trust Yourself!

“"Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it."

—Duane Michals

Show Respect to All

“"Our graveyards are filled with unknown people who thought they were better than other people. Our society, however, is filled with the good works of those other people."

—Edmond Danken Sailer (1962; Poet, Philosopher

Balance!

“Ours is a binary universe; yes and no, stop and go, up and down, in and out, yin and yang, etc. What should we come to understand by all this? The universe is always seeking a balance or equilibrium. As part of the universe, we too are seeking balance. Balance is the secret to life if there ever was one, and moderation is the sec...ret to balance.”

—Edmond Danken Sailer (1962; Poet, Philosopher

Do Something of Worth!

“Let’s give the historians something to write about.”

—Propertius (45 BC-15 BC); Latin poet

Everybody is a Genius!

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

—Albert Einstein (1879-1955); Theoretical physicist, Philosopher, Nobel Prize winner

Moments

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

—Anonymous

Being Different is Good

“While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

—Apple Computer Inc.

When One Door Opens

“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 that has been opened for us."

—Helen Keller

Don't Wait!

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

—Napoleon Hill (1883 – 1970); American author, Early producer of the modern genre of personal-success literature

Don't Look Down on Anyone

“"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."

—Author Unknown

Like Candles of Happiness

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will never be shortened. Happiness never ceases by being shared.”

—Chinese Proverb

You Get what you Give

“If you want trust, trust others. If you want respect, respect others. If you want help, help others. If you want love and peace in your life, give them away. If you want great friends, be one. That’s how it works.”

—Dan Zadra; Businessman, inspirational writer

Circumstances Reveal Who You Are

“When we do face the difficult times, we need to remember that circumstances don’t make a person, they reveal a person.”

—Emma Jameson

Problems can be Opportunities

“Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.”

—Robert Redford (born 1936); Actor, producer, director, environmentalist

Successful Mistakes

“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”

——Al Bernstein; American sportscaster, writer, stage performer, recording artist, and speaker

Do Good!

“Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.”

—Minor Myers Jr. (1942-2003); Author, Scholar, Composer

Difficulties are Opportunities

“Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience… When one door closes, another one always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.”

—Brian Adams

Be Concerned About Mediocrity

“We ought to be much more concerned about mediocrity than failure.”

—Daniel Pink; American writer, Speechwriter, Motivational speaker

Do it Now!

“Soon is not as good as now.”

—Seth Godin (1960); American entrepreneur, Author, Public speaker

Making a Life

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

—Norman MacEwan (1881-1953); Senior Commander, Royal Air Force

Fight in the Dog

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), 34th President of the United States, from his speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958

Positive Thinking

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out."

—Art Linkletter; (1912-2010) Canadian-born American radio and television personality

Judging Ourselves

“Our loved ones judge us by what they think we are capable of doing. Other people judge us by what we've already done. We should judge ourselves by what we are doing now."

—Edmond Danken Sailer; Poet, Philosopher, Author

Personalities Transformed

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

—Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961); founder of analytical psychology

Mistakes are Useful

“Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"

—Peter McWilliams, (1949-2000) Author, writer of best-selling self-help books such as Life 101

Know Yourself!

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

—Bruce Lee (1940-1973); Founder of Jeet Kune Do, Martial Arts Icon, Actor

We are all Children at Heart

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children."

—Jim Henson (1936 - 1990); Puppeteer, Producer, Director, Creator of The Muppets

Building the Future

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945); 32nd U.S. President

Luck is Preparation and Opportunity

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

—Seneca (4-65); Roman statesman, philosopher

Lucky?

“If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?"

—Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 – 1966) (born Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz) was a poet and aphorist.