Today

'Count the cost of wasting today.'

- Gael Lindenfield

Health

'Listen to your body.'

- Anonymous

Don't neglect the detail

'A little neglect may breed great mischief... for want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.'

- Benjamin Franklin

Purpose

'How will you know your life's purpose?

WHEN YOU DECIDE WHAT IT IS!'

- Anthony Robbins

Freedom

'People get bitter when they feel enchained. When you have a way out, like working, you are free - & you don't have time for bitterness.'

- Nikki Tesfai

Lift your spirit

'Know what lifts your spirit & do more of it.'

- Gael Lindenfield

Your worth

'So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensible; and no man is useless while he has a friend.'

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Out of the ashes

'Turmoil is a good sign. It's the place to begin.'

- Gail Saltz M.D.

Happiness

'To achieve happiness we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.'

- Earl Nightengale

Choice

'Power is the ability to walk away from something you desire, to protect something you love.'

- Anonymous

Dignity & grace

'Never, under any circumstance loose your dignity & grace.'

- Anonymous

Patience

'Have patience with all things, but mainly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.'

- St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

Achievement & success

My mother drew a distinction between achievement & success. She said: 'Achievement is the knowledge that you have studied [or mastered a skill] & worked hard & done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others & that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement & forget about success.'

- Helen Hayes

Potential

'Your potential is much greater than what you are today.'

- Anonymous

Company

'Go where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated.'

- Anonymous

The formula

'I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.'

- Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958)

Exercise

'Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self-propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.'

- Jeff Mallet

Never give up

'That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.'

- Emerson

Let every moment count today

'Today we have the opportunity to create tomorrow's history, tomorrow's memories of the past. Fill it with good things...'

- Anonymous

Friendship

'Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.'

- Benjamin Franklin

Keep moving

'Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.'

- Will Rogers

Ability

'Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory & virtue, than education without natural ability.'

- Cicero (106BC - 43BC)

Changing course

'Listen to your heart - And don't look back.'

- 'The spirit to serve.' by J.W. Marriott, Jr. & Kathi Ann Brown.

Judgement

'I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.'

- Abraham Lincoln (1865)

Rule of life

'Through the centuries, one rule still stands: If one door closes, somewhere another will open for you.'

- Andre Gide

Experience

'Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.'

- Aldous Huxley