One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~Emily Dickinson
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls
George Carlin

"Adversity is the midwife of genius."
Napoleon

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future."
Robert Schuller

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." Malcolm Forbes

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
Thomas A. Kempis

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."
-Robert Browning

BE PREPARED WHEN OPPORTUNITY COMES
Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
When you're prepared, your chance for success will come.
You can change chance into good fortune if you're ready.

By the law of periodical repetition,
everything which has happened once
must happen again and again and again.

Not capriciously, but at regular periods,
and each thing in it's own period,
and each obeying it's own law.

There is a tide in your affairs,
when taken at the flood,
that will lead you on to fortune.
As events tend to repeat themselves,
the tide of opportunity will come to you.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will changer.
Max Steingart

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Joseph Addison

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple - and feels good, clean and right.
Chick Corea

When You are Old
by W. B. Yeats
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars

"The word impossible does not exist for me. I've got a lot of signal flags in my flag bag, but there is not a white one in there. I am going g to keep fighting until the day I die ..and might keep on fighting afterward...depends on where I am." Ted Turner

"We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart."

-- Julie Cameron

HAPPINESS LIES IN THE JOY OF ACHIEVEMENT


Happiness is a byproduct.
You cannot pursue it by itself.

You were built to conquer your environment,
solve problems, and achieve goals.
You'll find no real satisfaction or happiness in life
without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Happiness is in activity.
It's a running river not a stagnant pond.
Happiness is not in having or being,
it's in doing something you love.

The secret of happiness is in having something to do.

"The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour."
Margaret Thatcher

"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible
summer."
Albert Camus
Note: From Carol Clay

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Ted Turner

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle
Ken Blanchard

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. "
Sydney J. Harris

SUCCESS IS THE RESULT OF WELL DIRECTED ENERGY
The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

The first rule of success,
and one that supersedes all others,
is to have focused energy.

It's important to know how to concentrate it.
Focus your energy on important matters
instead of frittering it away on meaningless things.

Nothing will add more power to your life
then concentrating all your energies
on a limited set of goals.
You must focus the full power of all you are
on what you have a burning desire to achieve
if you truly want to be successful.

Gather in your resources,
rally all your faculties,
marshall all your energies,
focus all your capacities upon attaining your objectives.
You must be single minded,
and drive for the things you have decided upon.

The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Max Steingart

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending
too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of
it." --Thomas Jefferson

"Hear me! For I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me
for someone else."
Friedrich Nietzsche)-from NJC

WANTING TO WIN IS EVERYTHING
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Success is connected with continuous action.
It's largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
You're not finished when you're defeated,
you're only finished when you quit.

The most important quality essential to success is perseverance.
It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

You can have a fresh start any time you choose.
Failure is not in the falling down, but in the staying down.
It's not over until it's over.

If you've got the courage to stick it out, you'll attain your goal.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to is.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
Max Steingart