“I’ve learned to stop rushing things that need time to grow.” — Unknown
“We teach children to color inside the lines, and then expect adults to think outside the box.” — Frank Sonnenberg
“Successful people do what they have to do, whether they feel like it or not.” — Brian Tracy
“My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.” — Elizabeth Taylor
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — John Locke
“If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.” — Unknown
“Stubbornness we deprecate, Firmness we condone, The former is our neighbors trait, The latter is our own.” — John Wooden
“Don’t re-think; pre-think.” — Vikrant Parsai
“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.” — Alfred De Musset
“She was like the moon—part of her was always hidden away.” — Dia Reeves, Bleeding Violet
“Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.” — Nathan Mayer Rothschild
“Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.” — Dr. Thomas Fuller
“To be successful, you need family and friends. But, to be very successful, you need enemies and competitors.” — Unknown
“The ‘what ifs’ and ‘should haves’ will eat your brain.” — John O’ Callaghan
“Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.” — David Brown
These dogs are very well-behaved. Each waits until their name is called before proceeding to the chow line. They appear to be called in a random order, but could be conditioned to the same daily roll call. All goes well UNTIL…the very last dog who seems to have the patience of Job or resents being called last. I think you will enjoy this very short video.
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“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” — Elizabeth Bowen
“There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.” — Pat Riley
“Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don’t just survive. Celebrate.” — Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
“People who have gift of gab, often do not know how to wrap it up.” — Unknown
“The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them.” — Unknown
“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” — Amelia Earhart
“The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.” — Shana Alexander
“‘Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.” — William Shakespeare
“Don’t trust the heart, it wants your blood.” — Stanislaw Lec
“What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth.” — Friedrich Schiller
“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called ‘truth'” — Dan Rather
“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.” — John C. Maxwell
“Fortune befriends the bold.” — Emily Dickinson
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.” — Kahlil Gibran
“In everything you will find annoyances, but you ought to consider whether the advantages do not predominate.” — Menander
“There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.” — Bertrand Russell
“A word too much always defeats its purpose.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.” — Karl Lagerfeld
“I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.” — Charles M. Schwab
“There is far more opportunity than there is ability.” — Thomas Edison