In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
- Solon
"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point."
-- Harold B. Melchart
“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"You don't have to be good to start, but you have to start to be good."
Jeff Herring
"When flowing water ... meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it.... "Do not turn and run, for there is nowhere worthwhile for you to go. Do not attempt to push ahead into the danger ... emulate the example of the water: Pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage." ............."I Ching"
"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” -- Stephen R. Covey
“Be an all-out, not a hold-out.” -- Norman Vincent Peale
“It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.” -- Katie in ‘True to Form’ by Elizabeth Berg
"What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?" -- Jacob Needleman