“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” – Colette, twentieth-century French novelist

“You would be better off to make less money and be passionate about what you’re doing, than to make a lot of money doing something you despise. Will you dare to follow your heart all the way to fulfillment?” – Joyce Meyer, I Dare You

“What you make happen for somebody else, God will make happen for you. Don’t waste your pain. Let it be somebody else’s gain!” – Joyce Meyer, Approval Addiction

“If it really is impossible, there is nothing you can do anyway, so why worry about it?” – Joyce Meyer, I Dare You

“The great doing of little things makes the great life.” – Eugenia Price

“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.” – The Venerable Ajahn Chah, twentieth-century Buddhist monk

“As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.” – Buddha

“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.” – Buddha

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.” – Buddha

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” – Sidharta Gautama (Buddha)