Monthly Archives: February 2012

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. –Khalil Gibran

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. –Joyce A. Myers

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. –Joseph Campbell

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. –Jim Rohn

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anas Nin

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. – Johann von Goethe

You may have a fresh start at any moment, because this thing we can “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down. –Mary Pickford

Life itself is the proper binge. –Julia Child

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. –Maya Angelou

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. –Anna Quindlen

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not our circumstances. –Martha Washington

Life begets life. Energy begets energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. –Sarah Bernhardt

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. –Marie Curie

To live is so startling it leaves time for anything else. –Emily Dickinson