Have patience with all things, but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You’re perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs and tribulations can ever change that. Unconditional self-acceptance is the core of a peaceful mind.
St. Francis de Sales

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tse

Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.
Charles B. Newcomb

 

Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive...... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

 

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.
Karl Albrecht

 

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Setting boundaries doesn't keep others out. It defines where your life begins.
Terri Trespicio - Body + Soul Magazine

 

Fear is only excitement without the breath.

Fritz Perls, M.D.

 

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London

 

Tears are about strength, not weakness. They're about being open, expressing your feelings.
Unknown

 

When we forgive, we are saying that even though this experience has happened to us, we are going to completely release that pain and move forward without it.

Whole Living Magazine

 

If you want to know your future, look at what you are doing this moment.
Tibetan saying

What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think.

Dr. Patrick Gentempo

I find the great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying small stones.
Chinese proverb

 

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese proverb

There's no way to grow without taking a few risks.
Terri Trespicio - Body + Soul Magazine

We can’t fear the past. Fear is a future thing. And since the future’s all in our heads, fear must be a head thing.
Tom Payne

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide

No matter what happened, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
Dave Barry

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus

Learning to let go begins with understanding why you've been hanging on.
Terri Trespicio - Body + Soul Magazine

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

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

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham