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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt 
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
The question is not whether we will be extremists,
but what kind of extremists we will be...
The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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