1) You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.
Charles Johnson
2) A large portion of our lives is spent in making a mark in our chosen profession. The kind of work we do, largely defines who we are. To be able to align what you love, with what you do for a living is THE DREAM for most. You can have that, if you are willing to give all that it takes. To be able to be in the zone - that feeling of complete involvement in purely doing what you love, is the secret of happiness. Here are some gems of thought from people who believe in excellence to be the only way.
3) Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing and don't let people bring you down.
4) If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama
5) If you don't follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.
Burt Munro
6) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
7) Many of life's failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
8) Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
9) You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
10) You must unlearn what you have learned.
Yoda
11) How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
12) Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
13) I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
Anonymous
14) To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
15) Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
16) Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller
17) Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
Cherralea Morgen
18) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw
19) Wall Street is the only place people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from people who take the subway.
Warren Buffett
20) It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
Unknown
21) Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Smith
22) I count life just a stuff, To try the soul's strength on.
Robert Browning
23) Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
24) Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Anonymous
25) You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
26) I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.
27) The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
Josiah G. Holland
28) Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov
29) However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
30) Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
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