“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.”

- Paulo Coelho

"Look for the Dream that keeps coming back, it is your Destiny."

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

- Dorothy Parker

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

- Kahlil Gibran

“You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.”

- Edgar Guest

“If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -- you don't take the risk.”

- Rosalynn Carter

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.”

- Sir Walter Scott

“Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live."

- Charles Bukowski

"Life itself is the proper binge."

- Julia Child

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

- Jimmy Johnson

“Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.”

- Herbert Hoover

"I have always detested any departure from reality..."

- Jean Piaget

"Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries."

- Theodore Roethke

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

- Albert Camus

“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”

- Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

"Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles."

-John Tyndall

"Be bold! That's one way Of getting through life."

- Archilochus

“It matters not what a person is born, but who they choose to be.”

- J. K. Rowling

“Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

- Henry Ford

“Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.”

- Norman Lear

"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you."

- Sri Chinmoy

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

- Stephen Covey

‎"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."

- T. E. Lawrence

“To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”

- Tom Robbins