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Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier 
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
I give thanks for both my bloom and my thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Always Sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Own Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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