“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950)

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”

Charles W. Eliot
(1834 – 1926)

“Experience suggests it doesn’t matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
Lois McMaster Bujold

(1949 – )

“Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.”

Konstantin Stanislavsky
(1863 – 1938)

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

Oprah Winfrey
(1954 – )

“Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.”

Lenora Mattingly Weber (1895 – 1971)

“Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.”

Hugh Macleod

“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

Thomas A. Edison
(1847 – 1931)

“Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.”

Evelyn Underhill
(1875 – 1941)

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy”

Norman Vincent Peale
(1898 – 1993)