“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” -- Albert Schweitzer
“Most geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or others."
-- Mark Twain
“Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."
- Lady Bird Johnson
“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
-- Nelson Mandela
"Make voyages! Attempt them! There's nothing else..." -- Tennessee Williams
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
-- Dr. Martin Luther King
"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do" -- Kathleen Winsor
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
-- Howard Thurman
“Where talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation.”
-- Aristotle
"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."
-- Vincent Van Gogh
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
-- Mark Twain
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be authentic is literally to be your own author… When you write your own life, you play the game that is natural for you to play.”
--Warren Bennis
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-- Anaïs Nin
“Fear not that your life will come to an end, but that it will never have a beginning.” -- John Henry Newman
“When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." --Joseph Campbell
“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
-- Michelangelo
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
-- Anaïs Nin
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it for himself.”
-- Galileo
“Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us.”
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
-- John Lennon (from Beautiful Boy)
“Living fearlessly isn't the same as never being afraid. What isn't good is living in fear, allowing it to define you. Living fearlessly means standing up to fear, refusing to let it define your life.”
-- Michael Ignatieff (writer and historian)
"There is a true genius in everyone. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it would never stop doubting itself."
-- Einstein
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo Buonarroti
"If you want to build a ship, then don't drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and endless sea." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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