We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our precious experiences.
The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it - even if only as a hobby - is the key to happiness.
Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.
If you're the smartest one of your friends, you need new friends.
There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.
A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback.
Make your breaking point your turning point.
Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation. . . Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.
The future never takes care of itself; it is taken car of, shaped, molded, and colored by the present. Our todays are what our yesterdays made them; our tomorrows must inevitably be the product of our todays.
Success is knowing that one other human being has breathed a little easier because you lived.
A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.
Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.