• "As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives." ~ Buddha • “The oak sleeps in the acorn!” ~ James Allen • "The beginning is the most important part of the work." ~ Plato • "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain • "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!" ~ W. H. Murray • "Nothing happens unless first a dream." ~ Carl Sandburg • "No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big." ~ unknown • "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become." ~ James Allen • "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt • "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." ~ James Dean • "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." ~ Janos Arany • "Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination." ~ William Longgood • "Goals are dreams with deadlines." ~ Diana Scharf Hunt • "No dream comes true until you wake up and go to work." ~ unknown • "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" ~ Unknown • "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~ Marianne Williamson • “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi • "Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32 year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes, ‘and I will move the world.’ These men moved the world, and so can we all." ~ Robert F. Kennedy • “Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they are yours.” ~ Richard Bach • “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ~ Dalai Lama • “You, yourself, as much as anyone in the entire Universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~ Buddha • “Dare to dream, dare to try, dare to fail, dare to succeed." ~ G.Kingsley Ward • "If you can dream it, you can do it." ~ Walt Disney