Many a truth is the result of an error.  

 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

One’s lifework, I have learned, grows with the working and the living.  Do it as if your life depended on it, and the first thing you know, you’ll have made a life out of it.  A good life, too.  

 - Theresa Helburn

Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.   

– Eliza Tabor

Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.  

 – Maurice Seitter

I think people don’t place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.   

- Jean Shinoda Bolen

Do not postpone your happiness until you find the perfect relationship or your ideal job. Experience the aliveness of each moment; focus on what truly makes you happy, creates love, and brings you gladness – here and now. This is the path of the heart, and I assure you that when you make this path a constant choice you will experience a successful, abundant, and joyful life.  

 -
Lynn A. Robinson, Divine Intuition

Are you BORED with your life? Then THROW yourself into some work you BELIEVE in with all your heart, LIVE for it, DIE for it, and you will find HAPPINESS that you had thought could never be YOURS. 

  - Dale Carnegie

Has exile helped you? Have you found strength in it? Oh yes! Without a doubt, I can try to tell you why. When, at some point in our lives, we meet a real tragedy – which could happen to any one of us – we can react in two ways. Obviously we can lose hope, let ourselves slip into discouragement, into alcohol, drugs, unending sadness. Or else we can wake ourselves up; discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.   

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.  

 –Anne Frank

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.  

 - Thomas Merton