Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
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 the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
– Georges Bataille
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
– Robert H. Schuller
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 just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen
Hope is a waking dream.
– Aristotle
“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. Let others get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.
– Robert Tew
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson