Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today, it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I’ve walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above. – Gia Marie Carangi (1960-1986), Gia (1998 film by Angelina Jolie)

 

“I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a sharp, in focus picture of it in my head.” – Jack Nicklaus

“Your future hasn’t been written yet…so go ahead and make it a good one!” – Sue Augustine, 101 Success Secrets for Women

“Happiness for any reason is just another form of misery.” – The Upanishads, Happy For No Reason

“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“What most people need is less wishbone and more backbone!” – Sue Augustine, 101 Success Secrets for Women

“Every accomplishment large and small begins with the same decision: I’ll try.” – Ted Key, Chicken Soup for the Writer’s Soul

“As the martial artist and actor Bruce Lee said, ‘I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times.'” – Daniel Coyle, The Little Book of Talent

“All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits – practical, emotional, and intellectual – systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.” – William James through Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit     

“Living in the present will make your stress go down and your happiness go up.” – Dr. Henry Cloud, The Law of Happiness