The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it’s open.

Home is where the hugs are.

The best journey always takes us home.

Dream as if you’ll live forever, Live as if you only have today.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
~ Henry Van Dyke

A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.

May each of you get what you want out of life, and still want it after you’ve gotten it.

The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance; the wise person grows it under his feet.

Trying times are times for trying.

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
~ Aldous Huxley

We can’t all be stars… but we can all twinkle.

When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.

May our home know joy, each room hold laughter, every window open to great possibilities.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. – Buddha

The moment may be temporary, but the memory is forever.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? Act the way you want to feel.

The impossible is often untried.

You must take a step before you can walk a mile. Ten percent of something is better than 100% of nothing.
 
May the most you wish for be the least you get. May the best times you’ve ever had be the worst you’ll ever see.

Life is the most interesting thing I ever got into; I’m glad I didn’t miss it.

Add life to your years while you add years to your life.

One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Those who say it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt those doing it.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.
~ Confucius

There are 1440 minutes in every day. Make the most of each one.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine.

Everyday comes bearing its gifts—untie the ribbons.

The best we can do is our most.

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

It isn’t necessary to believe in miracles. Just hope a few believe in you.

Think and you won’t sink.

Applause is the only appreciated interruption.

We are all created with an equal opportunity to become unequal.

Every flower must grow though the dirt.

Believe in yourself

Pride is concerned with who is right: humility is concerned with what is right.
~ Ezra Taft Benson

Stop and smell the flowers.

Take thyme to stop and smell the flowers.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Don’t worry, be happy!

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are

Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life

If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.

Be not simply good, be good for something.
~ Thoreau

Bless all who enter

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

Sow kindness

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Cherish yesterday, Dream tomorrow, Live today

Lengthen your stride

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
–Helen Keller

Take time to be silly.

May all your weeds be wild flowers.

Every path has its puddle.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

There is no flying without wings.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.

Use soft words and hard arguments.

There is a time and a season for all things.

To be happy, don’t do whatever you like; like whatever you do.

Don’t just be good, be good for something

Because nice matters

Scatter kindness

Forget injuries, never forget kindness.
~ Confucius

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
~ Oprah Winfrey

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.
~ Oprah Winfrey

Partake of some of life’s sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
~ Oprah Winfrey

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
~ Oprah Winfrey

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~ Mark Twain

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

With happy memories the garden can be in bloom at anytime we like.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

It’s a job that’s never started that takes the longest to finish.

Little by little, one travels far.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
~ Euripides

Remember the day’s blessings, forget the day’s troubles

Live life joyfully

Cherish each precious day

Stars are the flowers of heaven

Life is what you make it

The earth laughs in flowers

Scatter Joy

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Light tomorrow with today.

I am not afraid to fall, something good always comes out of failure.

Speak kind words, receive kind echoes

Find joy in the simple things in life.

Bloom where you are planted.

Remember your Dreams

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Imagination is the highest kite you can fly.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human,
and enough hope to make you happy.

Happy people don’t necessarily have everything; they just make the most of everything they have.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.

In the middle of difficulty lays opportunity.

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
~ George Eliot

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

We all smile in the same language.

SIMPLIFY

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to people.

If you pray for rain, be prepared for some mud.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

Every smile makes you a day younger.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of your hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way.
Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition – plowing straight ahead, come what may.
~ Jimmy Buffet

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Seize the Day

Moments Mastered

A day well spent brings happy sleep

Never cease to amaze.

An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a pen.

If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Service is the rent you pay for room on this planet.

Tough times never last, tough people do.
~ Robert Schuller

The sky is only as high as you see it.

Become what you dream to be.

When things look down – look up.

When life gets too hard to stand...Kneel.

Plant seeds of kindness and harvest happy hearts.

Plant smiles, grow giggles, harvest love

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Pain and suffering are inevitable, misery is optional.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship is a plan of slow growth.
~ George Washington

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~ Aristotle

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
~ John Leonard

A friend should bear a friend’s infirmities.
 ~ William Shakespeare

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

Silences make the real conversation between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say what counts.

Friends are the threads that hold our lives together.

Friends, they make all the difference in how well one travels through life’s journey.

Sit long, talk much.

Be a friend.

A friend is one who knows you an loves you just the same.

Always walk with those who lift.

The best ornaments in the house are the friends who frequent it.

A true friend is the best possession.

Friendship sweetens the cares of life.

A friend walks in when the world walks out.

May our home always be too small to hold all our friends.

Love, laughter and friends are always welcome.

The seasons my come and go but friends last forever.

I am wealthy in my friends.
~ William Shakespeare

It is so much friendlier with two.
~ Winnie the Pooh

A true friend is the nectar of life.
~ Indian Proverb

If the world is cold; make it your business to build fires.

Friendship? Yes please.
~ Charles Dickens

A smile is a curve that very often can set a lot of things straight.

Poise is the art of raising the eyebrows instead of the roof.

Friends in your life are like pillars on your porch.
Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you.
Sometimes it’s just enough to know they’re standing by.

When the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.

In the long run the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Don’t let the good things of life rob you of the best blessings.

The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing.

The sound of laughter is the most civilized music in the world.

Few of us get dizzy from doing too many good turns.

The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make him your friend.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Listen to others as you would have them listen to you.

Man does not live by bread alone. Sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

When you’re falling on your face, you’re actually moving forward.

The real secret of happiness is not what you give or what you receive; it’s what you share.

Friendship is like two clocks keeping time.

A friend is one who takes you to lunch even though you are not tax deductible.

When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.

A friend is like an eagle; you don’t find them flying in flocks.

Friendship is a special place. I’m glad we are there.

Laughter is feeling good all over and showing it in one place.

To find a real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him, a blessing.

We are the hero of our own story.

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Every journey begins with a step.

Keep life simple.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

Never get so busy at making a living that you forget to make a life.

Life is what happens to you while you’re working for your future.

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln

And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Live simply

Live Simply, Simply Live

Live your best life

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Take time to smell the flowers

May the Angels guide your journey and may your life be blessed with every dream come true.

If the greatest gift of all is life then the second must be that no two are alike.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Teach us delight in simple things.

During difficult times remember the sun is shining somewhere.

The greatest battle in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

It’s never too late to be what you might have been.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Enjoy this moment, for this moment is your life.

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. ~ James Dean

Forget yesterday, live today, trust tomorrow.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Take what comes.

Life is not about how many breaths you take, but rather how many moments that take your breath away.

You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty.

We are constantly faced with a series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Work is love made visible

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back

Consider your origin; you were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~ William Arthur Ward

Knowledge is power.
–Sir Francis Bacon

Wisdom is organized life.
~ Kant

By learning, you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
~ M.C.Escher

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
~ Antole France

To teach is to learn twice.
~ Joseph Joubert

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a peace in adversity and a provision in old age.
~ Aristotle

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ Dorothy Nevill

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience.

Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
~ Hal Borland

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
~ Nadia Boulanger

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J Boorstin

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
~ Thomas Carruthers

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
~ Chinese Proverb

All men by nature desire knowledge.
~ Aristotle

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
~ Samuel Smiles

The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.
~ Leo Tolstoy

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
~ Professor Dumbledore

Honesty is the best image.
~ Tom Wilson

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Speak the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
~ Ron Wild

Wisdom is to wonder

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Learn as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Nothing endures but change.
~ Heraclitus

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.
~ Anna Pavlova

Luck is preparation met with opportunity.

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
~ Jameson Frank

The Past is History, the Future is a Mystery, this Moment is a Gift –that’s why it’s called the Present.

Great minds have purpose, little minds have wishes.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
~ Derek Blek

The secret of success is to scratch and keep scratching.
~ Dennis Green

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
~ Arthur Brisbane

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you’ll see how low it is.
~ Dag Hammarskjold

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)
~ Dr. Seuss

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
~ Dr. Seuss

You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose!
~ Dr. Seuss

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
~ Dr. Seuss

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
~ Dr. Seuss

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
~ Dr. Seuss

To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house

Happiness is in the journey.
Enjoy the journey.

Peace I leave with you...My peace I give you, I do not give you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
~ John 14:27

Carpe Diem

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Dance like no one is watching, love like you’ve never been hurt, sing like no one is listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.
~ William Purkey

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well.
~ Josh Billings

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

May your walls know joy

May every room hold laughter and every window open to possibility.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Every survival kit should come with a sense of humor.

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
~ Helen Keller

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that.

Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
~ Matthew 5:9
 
Enter with a happy heart

Peace is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.
 

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority, the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
~ Ralph W. Stockman

Faith Hope Love Courage

Stand for Something

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Take courage- for it mattereth not if you try and fail, and try and fail again; but it matters much if you try and fail and fail to try again.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
~ Emerson

You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometime fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now?
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Truth is not always popular, but it is always right.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do.
~ Helen Keller
When a man quietly makes up his mind that there is nothing that he cannot endure, his fears leave him.

My strength is that of 10,000 because my heart is pure.
~ Sir Galiha

The best way out of difficulty is through it.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this,
that we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying up.
~ Mary Pickford

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but what direction we are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
This courage…to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
~ Euripides

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
~ David O. McKay

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
~ James Joyce

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
~ Elbert Hubbard

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The possibility 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

The cultivation of all parts of the moral and intellectual nature is requisite to form the man or woman of healthy and well balanced character. Without sympathy or consideration on others, man were a poor, stunted, sordid, selfish being and without cultivated intelligence the most beautiful woman is little better than a well dressed doll.
~ Samuel Smiles

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
~Mark Twain

You have to stay awake to make your dreams come true.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne

It is easy to be brave from a distance.

He who cannot establish a dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. He who masters himself shall be king.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
~Abraham Lincoln

Noble characters do not alone bear trouble, they use it.

When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.

Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds have purpose. Others have wishes.
~ Washington Irving

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

Plan ahead…it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
~ Winston Churchill

Clear your mind of can’t.
~ Samuel Johnson

Nurture your thoughts with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic, makes heroes.

To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.
~ Anatole France

If a man does his best, what else is there?
~ General George S. Patton

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Big jobs usually go to the people who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
~ Peter Marshall

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old…seek what they sought.

The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

As you become more clear about who you really are,
you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.
~ Oprah Winfrey

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
~Oprah Winfrey

Never, never, give up!
~ Winston Churchill

Do one thing at a time, with supreme excellence.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
~ Socrates

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
~ Thomas Edison

This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
~William Shakespeare

The loftier your goals, the higher your risk, the greater your glory.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it is the size of the fight in the dog.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals, courtesy; to inferiors, nobleness.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
~ Elbert Hubbard

A good example is the best sermon.
~ Hebert J. Taylor

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
~ Henrik Ibsen

Live so that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
~ Will Rogers

The only easy day was yesterday. ~ SEAL

Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts.

Time is not measured by clocks but by moments.

Time with those one loves, is life's greatest gift.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
~ E. Joseph Crossman

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
~ Golda Meir

Time is made up of captured moments.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
~ Annie Howard

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
~ Emily Dickinson

By labor we can find food and water, but all of our labor will not find for us another hour.
~ Kenneth Patton
No time like the present.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
~ Will Rodgers