Simple

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Why

Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
George Carlin

Fear

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Happiness

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family, in another city.

George Burns

Goals

Goals that are not written down are just wishes. 

Unknown

Kindness

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
Unknown

Live

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler

Growing up

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. 

Joseph Heller

Time

Time is the only real scarce resource. We are all battling for more of it. The only way to have more is to spend it wisely.
Unknown

Life

Life is a journey, not a destination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society

A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
John Sawhill

Expectations

A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle

Change

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi

Dedication

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno

Happiness

Happiness not spent today does not equal more happiness tomorrow.
Scott Dinsmore

Focus

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah More

Seek

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
Sir Thomas Browne

Time

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Charles Burton

Goals

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Bo Jackson

Solitude

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
Deepak Chopra

Specificity

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I have to be more specific.  

Lily Tomlin

Just do it

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. 

Ivan Turgenev

Never too late

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Elliot

Reason

If the only reason you find for doing something is because others are doing it, then that's not good enough.
Warren Buffett

Memory

The palest ink is better than the best memory. 

Chinese proverb

To wait or not to wait

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

Comparison

You always have been and always will be your own best competitor.
Anonymous

People

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too can become great.
Mark Twain

Friends - again

Good friends are good for your health. 

Irwin Sorason

Friends

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. 

Ed Cunningham

Friends

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. 

Emily Kimbrough

People

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

People

Unless we can hear each other singing and crying, unless we can comfort each other's failures and cheer each other's victories, we are missing out on the best that life has to offer. The only real action takes place on the bridge between people.
Anonymous

Don't worry

I don't normally post more than one quote a day, but I've found this one and it had to be shared. Enjoy.


Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman

Mistakes

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr

Energy

Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt

Wisdom

Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the time of cholera