Focus not on the commotion around you, but on the opportunity ahead of you. – Arnold Palmer
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. – Ken Keyes
Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. – Eckhart Tolle
If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. – William Shakespeare
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much — those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. – Cyrus H. K Curtis
It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. – Bette Midler
Our lives improve only when we take chances ~ and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. – Walter Anderson
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. – Alexander Hamilton
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