“Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.” – Virginia Satir
“More is lost to indecision than the wrong decision.” – Cicero
“A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn’t.” – Mark Twain
“Our generation will be the first to die with more memories of other people’s lives than their own.” – Jonathan Haidt
“Everything is born from change.” – Marcus Aurelius
“The moment you know you’ve healed: You can tell the story without emotion. It’s just facts now. Not fuel for anger. You can wish them well and mean it. You can see your part without shame or blame. You can learn from it without living in it. Healing isn’t forgetting. It’s remembering without bleeding. Peace with the past.” – Scott D. Clary
“What actually makes you attractive: Being interested, not interesting. Having your life together, not talking about having it together. Being kind when no one’s watching, not performing kindness for credit. Having boundaries, not being available to everyone. Building something, not consuming everything. The things that make you attractive long-term are the opposite of what gets attention short-term.” – Scott D. Clary
“Be so confident in knowing what you bring to the table that you’re willing to eat alone until you find the right table.” – Mathew Martorana
“You can’t be wise without also being loving.” – Shaun Roundy
“Love is primarily about perspective, and secondarily about acting on the motivation that perspective generates.” – Shaun Roundy
“Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.” – Seneca
“Successful People do what unsuccessful people know they should do. Everyone knows to exercise. Few do. Everyone knows to save money. Few do. Everyone knows to read more. Few do. The gap isn’t knowledge. It’s action. Stop learning what to do. You know. Start doing what you know.” – unknown
“The wise person battles his own ego. The fool battles everyone else’s.” – unknown
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Amateurs act when they feel like it. Professionals act because it’s time to act. They don’t let feelings decide the schedule.” – Jim Rohn
“Safety is not freedom.” – Jim Rohn
“You become a collector of knowledge instead of a practitioner. And no matter how much you know, none of it matters until you use it.” – Jim Rohn
“Motion is not progress. Learning is not growth. Thinking is not building. Only action crosses that line.” – Jim Rohn
“Knowledge is just the seed. It’s not the harvest. It’s not the fruit.” – Jim Rohn
“You make a decision and then you make it the right decision.” – Abraham Hicks
“Your future self is a stranger you repeatedly betray for meaningless comforts.” – Mark Manson
“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that’s why life is hard.” – Jeremy Goldberg
“There are no justified resentments.” – Wayne Dyer
“A virtue is something that is valuable even if it gives you nothing. A virtue persists without payment or compensation. Positive thinking is great. Vital. Useful. But it has to remain so even if it gets you nothing. Belief, truth, honor … if these exist only to get you something, you’ve missed the storming point.” – Brandon Sanderson
“Let me be the one to do what is done.” – Robert Frost
“To be social is to be forgiving.” – Robert Frost
“If you don’t value and reward excellence, you’re unlikely to get it.” – Shaun Roundy
“The difference between a hero and a coward isn’t what they feel. They’re both scared. It’s what they do.” – Cus D’amato
“After all is said and done, more is said than done.” – Aesop
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.” – Seneca
“The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.” – George Bernard Shaw, from Pygmalion
“All I know is that my life is better when I assume people are doing their best. It keeps me out of judgement and lets me focus on what is, and not what could or should be.” – Brené Brown
“Aut viam inveniam aut faciam” : “I shall either find a way or make one.” – Hannibal
“Look back along the endless corridors of time and you will see that four things have built civilization: the spirit of religion, the spirit of creative art, the spirit of research and the spirit of business enterprise.” – Neil Carothers
“Your satisfaction is what you have, divided by what you want.” – Arthur C. Brooks
“Satisfaction comes not from chasing bigger and bigger things, but paying attention to smaller and smaller things.” – Arthur C. Brooks
“If we are going to beat the problem of contempt, we’re going to need something more radical than civility—something that speaks to our heart’s desire. You know what our world needs: more love, less contempt.” – Arthur Brooks
“The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” – JB Pritzker
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we will not find it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.” – Dean Smith