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Nerves and butterflies are fine – they’re a physical sign that you’re mentally ready and eager.  You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that’s the trick. ~Steve Bull

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. –Leo Buscaglia

If things go wrong, don’t go with them. –Roger Babson

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. ~Author Unknown

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~Oscar Wilde  

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost  

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust  

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ~Joseph Campbell  

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. ~C.P. Snow  

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb  

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson. ~Author Unknown  

You were born an original. Don’t die a copy. ~John Mason  

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. ~Dag Hammarskjold

  Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~Jimmy Johnson

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~Jonathan Kozel

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~Victor Hugo

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison

Now that it’s all over, what did you really do yesterday that’s worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

What saves a person is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture. ~Kak Sri

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. –Albert Einstein

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. –Winston Churchill

Speed kills colour… the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. –Paul Morand quotes

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.–Emily Bronte

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. –Oscar Wilde