#inspirational

"Persistence, perseverance, and continuous improvement are the ingredients for forming a successful person."

"When you are soul-centered, you can focus your attention where and when you want to, easily, without distraction. You know to look for what you want to see and experience. You know that what you seek you shall find, and what you focus on in life will be more prominent in your awareness. You know your awareness is powerful and creative."~ Sarah McLean"

"When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does."

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time."

"Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none."

"Be an example and open a new way for life."

"Like a child, always enjoy the world."

"It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege."

"Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional."

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"

"It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up."

"Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!"

"If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind."

"It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind."

"The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed."

"The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else."

"Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless."

"To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy."

"You don't know, oh, ohYou don't know you're beautiful."

"Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing."