"There will always be storms, it is how you weather them that counts." - variation of Epictetus
  
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -Aesop
  
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" - Confucius 
  
Does it matter more whether the glass is half empty or half full, or what is inside?
learn to think outside the box
  
"All the good things in life are free. It's important to never loose sight of that. So look around you, wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love....there's your treasure."
- Neale Donald Walsh
  
" If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours!" - Dolly Parton (Imagination Library)
  
  
"Failure is NOT the opposite of success, it is a PART of it." - Arianna Huffington
"Never, never, never give up." – Winston Churchhill
  
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
  
  
  
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword" Edward George Bulwer-Ltton
In the written word we have the power to change the world, literally, while with the sword we have only the power to break down and kill, and even then only the mortal body, not the spirit.
  
"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not." - The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
  
"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  
"My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I AM what I AM and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier." - Sir Antony Hopkins
  
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
- Theodore Roosevelt
  
"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up." - Jessie Jackson
  
"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?" -Dr. Suess
  
The Starfish Parable
you can One day, an old man was walking along a beach that was littered with thousands of starfish that
make a had been washed ashore by the high tide. As he walked he came upon a young boy who was eagerly throwing the starfish back into the ocean,
difference, one by one.
Puzzled, the man looked at the boy and asked what he was doing. Without looking up from his
if you task, the boy simply replied, "I'm saving these starfish, Sir."
try! The old man chuckled aloud, "Son, there are thousands of starfish and only one of you. What difference can you make?"
The boy picked up a starfish, gently tossed it into the water and turning to the man, said,
"It made a difference to that one Sir."
- Loren Eiseley
  
"Be kind whenever possible.
- It is always possible." - The Dalai Lama
  
"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
  
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
   
  
Why settle with ordinary when you can write your own fairytale? - Danielle Bruckert
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