“To live with purpose. To say the courageous thing. To celebrate the simple gift. To follow your dreams. This is the happy life.” – Wayward Henry
“Run to your canvas everyday and mark it up.” – Tammy Hodge
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.” – Cory Booker
“You will live out whatever it is you believe about yourself.” – Christa Black
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.” – Buddha
“Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost
“To love is to be vulnerable.” – C.S. Lewis
“He who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” -Henry Ford
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Never let your feelings dictate your bravery. Live braver than you feel.” – Jon Acuff
“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.” – Sigmund Freud
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.” – Sir William Osler
“Procrastination will prevent your purpose. Today, stop talking about it and start taking steps of action.” – Bryan Carter
“The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not – as we flatteringly think – how lazy they are, but how hard they work.” – Alain de Botton
“I challenge you to eat a meal with someone you disagree with on an impassionate issue.It may not change you but it will make you more human.” – Eugene Cho
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi
“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” – John Lennon
“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” — Tori Amos
“Easy roads make sleepy travellers.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Your dream is less about who you are than who you need to become .” – Ben Arment
“The older I get the more I realize all my plans never work out. And the older I get the more I learn that’s okay.” – Coleen York
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.” ― Seth Godin
“Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.” -H. Drummond
“The story of your life has many chapters. One bad chapter doesn’t mean it’s the end of the book.” — Unknown
“I have found that it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness & love.” ~ Gandalf
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” - Virginia Woolf
“An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.” -Richard Bach
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” – Miles Davis
“Lack of direction, not lack of time is the problem. We all have 24 hour days.”- Zig Ziglar
“No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca
“Your graciousness is what carries you… it is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.” – Stevie Nicks
“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.” -Alexander Woolcott
“My time and my attention are my most valuable resources. They are not renewable.” – Jason Santa Maria
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.” - Madeleine L’Engle
“Taking pictures is savouring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” -Mark Riboud
“You reveal your own character most clearly when you describe someone else’s.” – Nicky Gumbel
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein
“Often inspiration comes from the most unpredictable places. To see beauty we need to open our eyes in unlikely moments to see new.” – Jeff Shinabarger
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” James Michener
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it… what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – H. Thurman
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” – William James
“Do not save things for a special occasion. Everyday of your life is a special occasion.” – Thomas S. Monson
“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” – John Wooden
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
“Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding.” – Cheryl Strayed
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” – Mary Oliver
“You don’t change the world out of obligation, but you will out of glorious obsession.” – Brian Houston
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.” – Unknown
“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.” – William James
“All of us are better when we’re loved.” – Alistair Macleod
“We spread ourselves out, do thing after thing, because we’re scared of failing. Pick something. Do it fully.” – Jeff Goins
“If you don’t feel free and be yourself, you can’t connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They’ll heal your soul.” – Donald Miller
“Define yourself radically as the one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.” – Brennan Manning
“You have to go whole heartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.” – Edwin Bliss
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” – William Shakespeare
“Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterwards.” – Tina Fey
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” – J.R.R Tolkien
“It’s not about what you love. It’s about how you love it.” – Wil Wheaton
“Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” – Chuck Palahnuik
“The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckley
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.” – Hans F. Hansen
“Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.” – Buddha
“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.” – Iris Murdoch
“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.” – Jane Austen
“There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do.” – Amy Poehler
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” – Melody Beattie
“Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people.” – The Breakfast Club
“Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Brea the habit. Talk about your joys.” – Rita Schiano
“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on yourself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.” – Hank Green
“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs
“Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.” – Jon Acuff
“We are what we think about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” – C.S. Lewis
“Be brave. No one remembers a coward.” – Christopher M. Hurley
“You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.” – Tony Gaskins
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Virigina Woolf
“The best things in life are unexpected because there were no expectations.” – Eli Khamarov
“Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.” – George Bernard Shaw
“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The purpose of life, after all, is it live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“In the end I want my heart to be covered in stretch marks.” – Andrea Gibson
“Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.” – Erin McManus
“Greatness is helping others realize they are great, beautiful and capable. Genius is seeing the wonder and possibility in those others ignore.” – Cory Booker
“Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let’s do that thing with people we love.” – Donald Miller
“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” – Charles Kettering
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go, they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
“This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterday’s.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what’s left is who we truly are.” – Arianna Huffington
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.” – John Keats
“Above all, try something.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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