Don't wait for your feelings to change to take the action

Don't wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and yourfeelings will change

Smooth sea do not make skillful warriors

Smooth sea do not make skillful warriors 

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

What you do not want done to yourself ...

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

A mere friend will agree with you

A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue

Live your life for you not for anyone else

Live your life for you not for anyone else. Don't let the fear of being judged, rejected or disliked stop you from being yourself.

Getting over a painful experience ...

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

At any given moment, you have the power...

At any given moment, you have the power to say that this is NOT how the story is going to END

The time is always right to do what is right.

The time is always right to do what is right.

If you judge people...

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

To laugh often and much by Ralph Waldo Emerson

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Never regret

'Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

It had long since come to my attention ...

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

A thousand disappointments in the past cannot equal...

A thousand disappointments in the past cannot equal the power of one. Go ahead and go for it.

You will never be happy if you continue to search ....

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Don't do something permanently stupid just because you...

Don't do something permanently stupid just because you are temporarily upset.

Your body is the baggage

Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.