Quotes

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain, Author

“He said, ‘You can’t talk about music. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.’ It’s just as pointless as talking about a lot of things. Love, for instance. Talking about love is like dancing about architecture. So I don’t know. He might be right. But it ain’t gonna stop me from trying.”  – Playing By Heart, 1998

“Whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don’t matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you’ll find a way to get it done.” – Jack Youngblood

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