Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

Margaret J. Wheatley

You must remain focused on your journey to greatness.

Les Brown

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

Suzanne Collins

I don't assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and beliefs to be manic or marvelous just like me

Stanley Victor Paskavich

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy one word Zen. When asked What is the highest teaching of the Buddha? he replied: An appropriate statement. On another occasion, he answered: Cake. I admired his directness.

Stephen Batchelor

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Johann von Goethe

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

Marty Rubin

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Robert Townsend

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Woodrow Wilson

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

Matthew Simpson

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Edward Noyes Westcott