"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference." - Jane Goodall

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs

"Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose." - Steve Jobs

"You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other." - Stevie Ray Vaughan

"There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light." - Jodi Picoult

"When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time." - James Arthur Ray

"You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey. Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last." - Vernon Howard

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age." - Sophia Loren

"The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath." - Alberto Santos-Dumont

"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." - William H. Sheldon

"A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange." - Author Unknown

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” - Marcel Pagnol

"Don't worry about the people in your past. There's a reason they didn't make it to your future." - Author Unknown

"It's never too late to be who you might have been." - George Eliot

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old." - James A. Garfield

"A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married." - H.L. Mencken

"To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." - Ogden Nash

"If you found a wonderful man, who helps balance your whole world... who isn't perfect, but is perfect for you... who works hard & would do anything for you... who makes you laugh... who is your best friend... who you want to grow old with... and who you are thankful for every day... then..." - Sharon Collins

"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences." - Dave Meurer

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him first just to find her" - Maya Angelou

"Therefore behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know My hand and My might; And they shall know that My name is ..." - Jeremiah 16:21

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." - Matthew 6:33

"Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world." - Thomas Guthrie

"We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to." - Randy Pausch

"If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If I got three more words, I'd add, All the Time." - Randy Pausch

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them." - Lawana Blackwell

"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'" - Conan O'Brien

"There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream." - Archibald MacLeish

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

"I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid." - Sara Zarr

"When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over." - Sarah Addison Allen

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it." - George Burns

"Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement." - Colby Dorr Dam

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius

"There shall not be found among you ... one who practices witchcraft ... or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells ... For all who do these things are an abomination to the LORD." - Deuteronomy 18:9-14

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny." - Jean Nidetch

"Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it." - Julie Andrews

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind." - Cicero

"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have." - Thomas A. Edison

"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?" - Peter McWilliam

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." - Frank Tyger

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle." - Phillips Brooks

"The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind." - Carl Hiaasen

"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm." - William Cowper

"When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth." - Neale Donald Walsch

"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." - Elvis Presley

"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance." - Charles Lindbergh

"Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you." - Aaron Douglas Trimble

"He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the LORD." - Proverbs 18:22

"A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers." - African Proverb

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say no to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside." - Stephen Covey

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." - James Gordon, M.D.

"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." - Mary Hemingway

"For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude." - Clarence E. Hodges

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes." - Frieda Norris

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." - Hannah Whitall Smith

"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." - Rita Mae Brown

"To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it." - Josh Jenkins

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children." - Alex Haley

"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise." - William Congreve

"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men." - Captain J. A. Hadfield

"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first." - David H. Comins

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats

"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change." - Barbara de Angelis

"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." - Napoleon Hill

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you." - Spanish Proverb

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." - H. T. Leslie

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known." - Chuck Palahniuk

"In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side." Randy K. Milholland

"What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly." - Shakti Gawain

"Every problem or difficulty you face contains the seed of an equal or greater advantage or benefit." - Napoleon Hill

"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted." - Kevin Costner

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can." - Gracie Allen

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right." - Jane Goodall

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God..." - Exodus 20:8-11

"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." - Will Rogers

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." - Paulo Coelho

"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself." - Louis L'Amour

"Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people." - Welsh Proverb

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." - Jeremiah 29:13

"For your merchants were the great men of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived." - Revelation 18:23

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." - Michael Caine

"Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still." - Patricia Russell-McCloud

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided." - Tony Robbins

"Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it" - Winston Churchill

"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything." - Oscar Wilde

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos

"He who kneels before God can stand before anyone." - Author Unknown

"Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished." - Og Mandino

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure." - Paulo Coelho

"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge." - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." - Scott Adams

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." - George Santayana