"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to
ask permission of other people or society at large. When you
ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life."

-- Geoffrey F. Abert

~~~

 

"Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for
yourself."

-- Harriet Nelson

 

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."

-- John W. Gardner

 

"We cannot direct the wind... but we can adjust the sails."

-- Unknown

 

"How you think about a problem is more important than the
problem itself. So always think positively."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

 

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and
exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less
cleaning up to do afterward."

-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

 

"Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments."

-- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world
walks out."

-- Walter Winchell

 

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like
and let the food fight it out inside."

-- Mark Twain

 

"Improvement begins with I."

-- Arnold H. Glasgow

 

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not
events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can
choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't
arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be
happy in it."

-- Groucho Marx

 

"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success
at something I hate."

-- George Burns

 

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the
first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with
glory."

-- Betty Smith

 

"The best way to predict the future is to create it!"

-- Alan Kay

 

"To acquire knowledge, one most study but to acquire wisdom one
most observe."

-- Marilyn Vos Savant

 

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can
never do anything wise in this world."

-- Helen Keller

 

"When I hear somebody say, Life is hard, I am always tempted to
ask, Compared to what?"

-- Sydney J. Harris

"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be
in his way."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson