"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." Carl Bard
"Some of the greater things in life are unseen that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry or dream..."
"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.: Charles Kingsley
"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
Mack R Douglas
"Where there is a will there is a way, is an old true saying. He who resolves upon a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so...to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself." Samuel Smiles
"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward to the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence." Og Mandino
"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built." James Allen
"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality." Wayne Dyer
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." Vincent Van Gogh
"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it." Izaak Walton
"As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand." Bruce Lee
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."
Helen Hayes
"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."
Henry Longfellow
"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are: curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." Walt Disney
"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified." Samuel Johnson
"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these ...that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need, that I will have left this earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."
C. Hoppe
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, let me sow joy.
St. Francis Assisi
"You have a future, prepare for it." F.T. Fields
"Suddenly I felt a misty consciousness as of something forgotten- -
"Please kiss me when I am sad, hug me when I am alone,
"Where there is great love, there are always miracles."
Willa Cather
"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
Langston Hughes
"God often comforts us, not by changng the circumstances of our lives, but by changing our attitude toward them."
S.H. B. Mastermen
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference."
The only devils in the world are those running around in our hearts, that is where the battle should be fought. Open your heart and make peace with your internal devils, embracing your fears and weaknesses and find compassion for your humanity.
Give yourself the gift of your heart, as soon as you open your heart to yourself, you will open your heart to others. You are loveable. You are deserving. You are enough. Trust your inner wisdom and trust that at your core there is goodness.
Go beyond your self-imposed limits and make a commitment to living a life you love. Ask the universe for love and support. Ask God to fill you with compassion and strength. Face where you are at this moment, and then move to higher ground. Grant yourself permission to have it all. You deserve it.
Maggie Swain
