You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.

Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.

Steve Maraboli

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Pat Riley

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.

Heinrich Heine

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Victor Hugo

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstaking

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God created man, but I could do better.

Erma Bombeck

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

Charles de Lint

All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous.Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

I hope the cooks who are working for me now are getting that kind of experience so they can use what they're learning now as a foundation for a great career.

Thomas Keller

For I am more selves than Neville thinks. We are not simple as our friends would have us to meet their needs. Yet love is simple.

Virginia Woolf

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

Henry Miller

Failure is the path of lease persistence.

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