reede, 4. aprill 2008

Virginia Satir

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."

William C. Durant

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."

Sir Thomas Browne

"Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich."

Gail Sheehy

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security."

Boris Pasternak

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."

Abigail Van Buren

"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."

Tennessee Williams

Make voyages! -- Attempt them! -- there's nothing else…"

Michelangelo Buonarroti

"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."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

Helen Keller

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

Helen Keller

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no valleys to traverse."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Mark Twain

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

Katherine Mansfield

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different."

Henri Frederic Amiel

"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

Sir Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

Plutarch

"Character is simply habit long enough continued."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."

William James

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

Erich Fromm

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself."

Mahatma Gandhi

"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."

Marie Curie

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

Gilda Radner

"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

Peter Marshall

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."

Theodore Roethke

"I learn by going where I have to go."

Julia Cameron

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow."