Making life beautiful
	 
    
    
     
    "One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back  and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about  the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so  beautiful that it will be worth remembering."
 Ida Scott Taylor
1820-1915, Author
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 The greatest weakness
	 
    
    
     
    "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
 Thomas Edison
1847-1931, Inventor and Entrepreneur
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 Work and self
	 
    
    
     
    "The one important thing I have learned over the years  is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's  self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."
 Margot Fonteyn
1919-1991, Classical Ballet Dancer
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 Finding purpose
	 
    
    
     
    "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."
 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 Get started!
	 
    
    
     
    "Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.'  Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your  command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
 Napoleon Hill
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 Getting off the fence
	 
    
    
     
    "It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get  off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make  progress without making decisions."
 Jim Rohn
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 When goals can't be reached
	 
    
    
     
    "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
 Confucius
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 Your standards
	 
    
    
     
    "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you."
 Henry Ward Beecher
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 Sticking to your vision
	 
    
    
     
    "Before you begin a thing remind yourself that  difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can  only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision  of that and cling to it through thick and thin."
 Kathleen Norris
1880-1966, Novelist
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 Choosing your friends
	 
    
    
     
    "Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."
 W. Clement Stone
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 Not taking yourself too seriously
	 
    
    
     
    "Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit  of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that  will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in  perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at  your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the  solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously."
 Og Mandino
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 Asking for what you want
	 
    
    
     
    "Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you  don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the  kids won't laugh at you."
 Jim Rohn
1930-2009, Author and Speaker
        
    
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
     
    
    
	 
	 Stick with it, and find joy
	 
    
    
     
    "Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's  failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set  yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and  you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."
 Helen Keller