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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

I believe that every person is born with talent. –Maya Angelou

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. –Mother Teresa

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. –Walter Elliot This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2011.php

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. –Alfred A. Montapert

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. –Aristotle

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. … Continue reading →

It is easy to see the faults of other. It is hard to see our own.- Buddha

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. –Matsuo Basho

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. –John Muir

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. –Nelson Mandela

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it. ― Marcus Buckingham

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace … Continue reading →

‘Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life. –Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. –Willa Cather

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. –Jacob Bronowski

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. –Andre Gide

Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. –Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. –Lao Tzu

A person’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence their heart first opened. –Albert Camus

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success. –Og Mandino

I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it. –Jim Dale

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. –Alfred North Whitehead

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own. –Henry Ford

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. –Robert Morgan

Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.–Fulton J. Sheen

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. –Viktor E. Frankl

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.–Rene Descartes

Leap, and the net will appear. – Julie Cameron