Change

How can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful.

Thomas Carlyle, philosopher

Progression

"I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression." - Margaret Fuller

Dominant Thoughts

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts — Søren Kierkegaard

What You Want

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

- Madonna

Your Wounds

Right Thing

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

- Warren Buffett

Ovid Quote

"Be patient and tough. Someday this pain will be useful to you." ~ Ovid

Decision to Act

The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.

Amelia Earhart

Self-Doubt

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Robert Hughes, art critic

Relaxation

If our minds are always busy, they don't get time to do basic maintenance - to sort, tidy up and take out the trash. If we don't periodically clear out space in our minds, there’s no room for new ideas to take root.

Where do you find stillness each day and each week? Plan for quiet time, relaxation and stillness daily, even if it's only for 5 or 10 minutes.
-- John Robson

Growth

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

- Julia Cameron

Success

The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.

Sergey Brin,

Everyone is Broken

Anne LaMott's 4th item she's learned from life.

4. Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together. They are much more like you than you would believe. So try not to compare your insides to their outsides. Also, you can't save, fix or rescue any of them, or get any of them sober. But radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, "Well, isn't she full of herself," smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.

Ancient Wisdom

"Our bodies and hearts know so much more than our minds. We hold an ancient wisdom that most of us have no idea exists. We are the sum of our ancestors and all their hopes and dreams for us—how can their prayers not be etched into our bones?" – Raquel Scianna

Wilderness

"Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers.The right road for one is the wrong road for another ... The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness."
- M. Scott Peck

Greatness

“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Journey

"Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time." - Asha Tyson

Business

"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts." - Richard Branson

Clear Mind

"If moment by moment you can keep your mind clear then nothing will confuse you."
- Sheng Yen

Perfect

"Don't wait until conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes conditions perfect."

- Alan Cohen

Victory

"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."

                    - Horace Mann

Great Things

Withholding

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world." - Eckhart Tolle

Abandonment

"The original abandonment, the original abuse, the original horror has some reason and meaning in it. It is not senseless. It is not like being run down like a dog on the highway. Its meaning most often is the development of tremendous strength, tremendous power, tremendous intuition. And I will tell you frankly that most of the people who are the greatest healers living on the face of this earth are unmothered children. One of the great gifts of the un-mothered child and also the healer, and the writer and the musician and all those in the arts who live so close with their ear against the heartbeat of the archetypal unconscious - one of their strongest aspects is intuition." 

- Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Plans

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal." - Napoleon Hill