“The wise man in the storm prays to God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.”

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

“Why stay we on the Earth except to grow?.”

ROBERT BROWNING

“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”

MALCOLM FORBES

"It is the burning of the heart I want It is the burning I want more than anything It is the burning in the core of the heart That calls God secretly in the night."

RUMI

“To love what you do and feel that it matters – how could anything be more fun?.”

KATHERINE GRAHAM

“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

JFK

“Happiness depends on ourselves.”

ARISTOTLE

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY (The Little Prince)

“Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.”

MARK TWAIN

"Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten...One has to go down into what one most fears and in that process comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.”

LAURENS VAN DER POST

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