"The very meaningless of life forces man to create his own meanings. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light."

- Stanley Kubrick, filmmaker

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food. ....

- Frederick E. Crane

"Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn."

- Jazz legend Charlie Parker

“The place where your greatest fears live is also the place where your greatest growth lies.”

- Robin Sharma

Goals

”No one can predict to what heights. you can soar, even you will not know until you spread your wings.“

- Anonymous (Captured from my daily To-do list book)

"Gandhi said 'One cannot do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another; Life is one indivisible whole.' This point of wisdom is profound. A commitment to excellence is not just reserved for a few select areas of your life - it must be reflected in everything you do. Your diet must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your physique must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your personal habits must reflect your commitment to excellence and your thoughts must reflect a commitment to excellence."

- Robin Sharma

"Life management begins with mind management. The quality of your life is influenced by the quality of your thoughts. Your thoughts do form your world. Scarce thoughts create a life of scarcity. Thoughts of abundance lead to abundant circumstances."

- Robin Sharma

“Personal responsibility is a hallmark of greatness.”

- Robin Sharma

"Every year of my life, I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good and dwell as little as possible on the evil and false."

- Cecil

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

- Epictetus

“If you try you might, but if you don’t you won’t.”

- Robin Sharma

"The things that people see as failures are often the steps to success. I got my fame and power from the failure of the Bricklin. What did I get for the biggest failure of my life? I got a stamp and a $20 coin in Canada with my car's likeness on them."

- Malcolm Bricklin, CEO of Visionary Vehicles and automotive revolutionary

"Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance."

- Robin Sharma

"Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission."

- Robin S. Sharma

"Most people don't learn how to live until it's time to die."

- Robin Sharma

“With big gifts come great responsibilities. You have a duty to shine.”

- Robin Sharma

“The giant key to success is to deal with the challenges of the moment without losing sight of the promises of the future.”

- Robin Sharma

"Attention makes the genius. All learning, fancy, science and skill depend upon it. Newton traced his great discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals disease, carries on the business of the world. Without it, taste is useless and the beauties of literature unobserved."

- Robert Willmott, 19th Century English author

"Life's like a play: it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters."

- Seneca

"Leadership strategy must not be driven by a quest for more money but a commitment to greater humanity."

- Robin Sharma