We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman
“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
Frank Herbert
“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
Tallulah Bankhead
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
Laurence J. Peter
The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.
W.E.B. Du Bois
“I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.”
Fritz Perls
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.
–Brother David Steindl-Rast
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
–Aldous Huxley
The best you can do for anyone is to thrive fully and be willing to explain to anyone who asks how it is that you are thriving, and what it is that you’ve discovered—and then, just relax and trust that all truly is well.
–Esther Hicks
Everything I’ve ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Chet Atkins