Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
Category Archives: Quotes
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself
Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.
– Willard Scott
Pleasure only starts once
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
– Georges Bataille
What great thing would you attempt
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
– Robert H. Schuller
We must dare to be happy
We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.
– Henri Frédéric Amiel
I’m not afraid of death
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen
waking dream
Hope is a waking dream.
– Aristotle
Don’t let the fear
“Don’t let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
― Sam Montgomery
There’s no need to be perfect to inspire others
There’s no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let others get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.
– Robert Tew
People only see what they
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson