"There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking." William James
"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self--a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change--the willful act of making the change, doing something." Leo Buscaglia
"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth." Mary Antin
"A real transformation begins on the inside, not in a bottle or a package. The magic is sitting inside you, just waiting to be let out. The transformation is a learning process, one that comes from realizing you control your destiny, and that you can accomplish whatever you decide you're going to accomplish."
"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness- -an open and noble temper."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body." Harry J. Johnson
"No matter who you are it's simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything." Ronaldo Assis Moreira
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
William James
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power." Lao-Tzu
"Energy is equal to desire and purpose."
Sheryl Adams
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same."
"Seek first to understand and then to be understood." Stephen R. Covey
"I find that a great part of the information i have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else along the way." Franklin P Adams
"Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it." Hermann Hesse
"Prayers go up and blessings come down." Yiddish Proverb
"Persons of high self esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else."
Nathaniel Branden
"We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love...and then we return home."
"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise."
Miguel De Cervantes
"Faith is the acceptance that we can grasp the reality of a truth, not be fully understanding it, but know enough to understand it's right, it works, it's perfect."
"Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light onto my path."
Psalm 119:105
"To unpathed waters, undreamed shores."
William Shakespeare
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Without goals, you will end up going nowhere, or, you will end up following someone else's map! Develop your own map today--set your goals and focus." Catherine Pulsifer
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Hellen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." H. Jackson Brown
"Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap."
Robert Fulghum
"The sun's energy warms the world. But when you focus it through a magnifying glass it can start a fire. Focus is so powerful." Alan Pariser
"Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influuence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe." Maya Angelou
"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind." Leo Buscaglia
