Every Moment

Don't wait for something outside yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. 

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. 

~ Earl Nightingale 

Start fresh each moment. 

Judge

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap 

but by the seeds that you plant. 

~ Robert Louis Stevenson 

Deep are the still waters. 

The Better You

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. 

~ John Wooden 

Be the better you. 

Experience

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. 

But you do learn, you do learn. 

~ CS Lewis 

There is always: begin again. 

Virtue

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. 

~ Christopher Marlowe 

Give what you can, when you can. 

Let It

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain. 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't fight what is. 

Wisdom

Wisdom... is knowing what you have to accept. 

~ Wallace Stegner 

Change what you can. 

Gift

Beauty is the lover's gift. 

~ William Congreve

Give of yourself. 

Another Person

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. 

~ Robert Heinlein 

Putting another first begins the acceptance of self. 

Creation

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. 

~ George Bernard Shaw 

Be you. 

Even in Siberia

Even in Siberia there is happiness. 

~ Anton Chekhov 

Happiness is an inside job. 

Happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. 

It comes from your own actions. 

~ Dalai Lama

Act as if you are happy and you will find you are happy. 

The Stars

Only in the darkness can you see the stars. 

~ Martin Luther King Jr. 

Contrast give perspective. 

Excellence

Whatever you are, be a good one. 

~ Abraham Lincoln 

Excellence is essential for satisfaction. 

Always do what you're afraid to do. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Push past fear to get to the other side. 

Love

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary. 

~ Oscar Wilde

Soaring love will endure time. 

Imagine

Everything you can imagine is real. 

~ Pablo Picasso 

Thoughts become real. 

Improve

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. 

~ Bette Davis 

When you can do better, do better. 

Courage

Life is to be entered upon with courage. 

~ Alexis de Tocqueville 

Boldly go into your future. 

Imagination

Imagination is the eye of the soul. 

~ Joseph Joubert 

See what ought to be and make it so. 

Great Happiness

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. 

~ Victor Hugo

Love is a decision. 

True Happiness

True happiness arise, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from friendship and conversation of a few select companions. 

~ Joseph Addison 

Honest communication is key to true friendship. 

Open

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open. 

~ Dalai Lama 

Open to new thoughts and new ideas for a new life. 

Faith

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond 

the power of reason to believe. 

~ Voltaire

Ask: what do I believe? 

Ponder

The more intense the nature of man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it. 

~ James Allen 

Practice to have silence within. 

Music

All music is what awakes from you when 

you are reminded by the instruments. 

~ Walt Whitman 

Your song is in your soul. 

Build character

The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. 

~ Zig Ziglar

Strive for a balanced life. 

Power

Character is power. 

~ Booker T Washington 

Who we are shines through. 

Warm Thoughts

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. 

~ Thomas Jefferson 

Good feelings come from the core of being. 

Love

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. 

~Lao Tzu 

Love is an action. 

Success

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. 

~ Walter Scott 

Strive to move a little bit forward, somehow, each day.