“The whole secret of a succesful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
—Henry Ford
July 2011
“She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.”
— Sarah Dessen
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”
—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
—John Wooden
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.”
—William Shakespeare
“Adapt or die. As many times as we’ve heard it, the lesson doesn’t get easier. The problem is we’re human. We want more than just to survive. We want love. We want success. We want to be the best that we can be. So, we fight like hell to get those things. Anything else feels like death.”
—Meredith Grey
“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. This is only microscopic criticism. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing.”
—Dale Carnegie
“kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”
—e.e. cummings
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
—Arnold Glasow
“Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.”
—Christian D. Larsen
“Follow the seasons. Follow your heart. Lead by example. Lead with love, alongside simplicity and courage, embracing duty, shunning fear.”
—Terri Guillemets
“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”
—Albert Einstein
“The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn’t. Time wasn’t a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.”
— Sarah Dessen
