Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

O let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

Charles Dickens

Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece!

Steve Maraboli

Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.

Neal Shusterman

Ideas are these disembodied life forms, they don’t have a form, but they have a will. All they want is to be made manifest. If you can manage to open up your consciousness to an idea of living in a world of abundance, then you can believe that, constantly, ideas are trying to find human collaborators.

Elizabeth Gilbert

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

Gene Tunney

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

Source Unknown

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

Boris Johnson

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

Lena Dunham

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

William Shakespeare