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Attitude

Attack every problem with enthusiasm ... as if your survival depended on it.

Attitudes are contagious ... are yours worth catching?

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Know your limits ... but never stop trying to exceed them.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T Washington.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the little extra.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible.

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks all of them. Author Unknown.

This truth I find implicit in the sunset — while we, from one point of view, are departing from the light of our life, we are at the same time approaching it from another angle, the resurgent angle of daybreak. Oacar Ostlund.

To fling open our arms to embrace the whole world is to exult in the awareness that our days are not for passing through but for living in.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Mark Twain

Write on your hearts that every day is the best day of the year. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage

Do not follow where the path may lead ... go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen ... others make it happen.

To be a winner, all you need to give is all you have.

We take risks not to escape life ... but to prevent life from escaping us.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Determination

A bend in the road is not the end of the road ... unless you fail to make the turn.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

If you're not riding the wave of change ... you'll find yourself beneath it.

The race is not always to the swift ... but to those who keep on running.

Dreams

If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavours to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Friendship

An old friend is like a full-blown rose, each velvet petal a pleasant memory. Its fragrance recalls sweetness that grows with years of love, understanding and sympathy. Margaret Trenton Crawford.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to the earth. I know not where ...
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company. Henry David Thoreau.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. Mark Twain

Of all the blessings that time and earth bestow there is none so precious as one true friend.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light. Albert Schweitzer.

When a person has a real friend, he learns not only to appreciate another human being, but he also learns to understand himself better. Susan Polis Schutz in Peace Flows From The Sky

Goals

A mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott

I cannot change yesterday ... I can only make the most of today, and look with hope toward tomorrow.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you fail to focus on your goals.

Running is a road to self-awareness and self-reliance ... you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. But when you are through, exhilarated and exhausted, at least for the moment everything seems right with the world.

This life is yours.
Take the power to choose what you want to do, and do it well.
Take the power to love what you want in life, and love it honestly.
Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control your own life — no one else can do it for you.
Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz in Yours If You Ask

Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow, a vision of hope. Look to this day for it is life.

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.  John B Gough