Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston ChurchillThe mind is everything. What you think you become.
BuddhaIf some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
ConfuciusNo man is free who is not master of himself.
EpictetusMost ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
Aldous HuxleyWhen you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
EpictetusDon’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. PattonWhen you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.
Joyce MeyerFear is stupid. So are regrets.
Marilyn MonroeBring them on.
George W. BushI woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
Paul AusterI am not afraid… I was born to do this.
Joan of ArcIt is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao TzuI know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.
Dolly PartonAnd we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
John D. RockefellerIn a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
BuddhaIf you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.
Brian EnoGlam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.
David BowiePeople have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.
Alice WalkerIf you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo CoelhoAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David ThoreauI am just one human being.
Dalai LamaI have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor SwiftLife cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiFind your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
Stephen CoveyI’m about being the best.
Frank OceanHe that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund BurkeIt was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.
Lady GagaWe all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.
Jocko WillinkI was never particularly fond of my voice.
David BowieMost people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Joel OsteenI was so ashamed of who I was.
Lady GagaIf a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
PlatoDeficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
Wayne DyerI sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
J. K. RowlingI realized the other day that I’ve lived in New York longer than I’ve lived anywhere else. It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.
David BowieI’d rather be a victor than a victim.
Robert KiyosakiAlways say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Eckhart TolleAccept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
Jordan PetersonYou were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.
Joel OsteenChange alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur SchopenhauerCharity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. RockefellerI mean we all need a second chance sometimes.
Joel OsteenThoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
Eckhart TolleIn my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Carl JungIf I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is not well to make great changes in old age.
Charles SpurgeonMy favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.
Taylor SwiftI’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.
Karl LagerfeldThe first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.
EminemMost of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.
Wayne DyerSometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
Huey NewtonForgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Desmond TutuEthics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand RussellHe shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
VoltaireEveryone has been in love, at some point or another.
Bad BunnyI want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham LincolnMy musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.
RihannaThe more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.
Joyce Meyer