I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head but you can prevent them
from building nests in your hair

Although the world is full of suffering...it is also full of overcoming it.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,
as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven,
we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but
we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

Saying yes and no clearly builds confidence and rids us of the misconception that we are powerless.

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

If we spent half as much time learning how to take risks as we spend avoiding them, we wouldn't have nearly so much to fear in life.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours.

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

I finally figured out that the main reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Sometimes God's greatest gifts are prayers unanswered.

When two people love each other they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.

It’s simple ladies: You’re either the queen or the maid. It’s up to you to decide how others should treat you.

So many women have claimed their dignity, power, and beauty, moving beyond limited definitions
of what it means to be a woman. The archetype of the queen draws these women because it marries two key concepts: take care of yourself so you can lead and care for those you love,
whether that be your family, your community, or the planet.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.