It is our action that determines the viability of our dream.

abstraction, n.Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

David Levithan

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Zachary Quinto

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Frederic William Farrar

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.

Steve Maraboli

The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.

Natalie Kocsis

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Katharine Hepburn

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Whoopi Goldberg

If you think you can do it, you can.

Eric Lindros

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.

Anthony Robbins

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

Marilyn Hacker

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

Jodi Picoult

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Richard Thalheimer