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We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
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If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey 
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
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
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
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
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)
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
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
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
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- 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)
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross the sea merely by
standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy
I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
I Act with Bold Courage:
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step -
large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you,
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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