“Be authentic. Be bold. Be great.”

-Robin Sharma

"Don't surrender leadership of your life to your moods"

-Robin Sharma

"In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is very acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position."

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contrinute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so."

-Quote on a Starbuck coffee cup by musician Shelby Lynne

Spring has past
Summer has gone
Winter is here
And the song that I meant to sing
Is still unsung
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument

-SANSKRIT SAYING

"I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet."

-Ancient Persian saying

"There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done."

-John Shaw Billings (1838-1913)

"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer."

- Joan Collins

"Most people try to know more to become more clever every day, where as I attempt to become more simple and uncomplicated everyday."

-Zen expression

“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.”

-Picasso

“Don't be interesting - be interested. If you want to have an interesting dinner conversation, be interested. If you want to have interesting things to write be interested. If you want to meet interesting people, be interested in the people you meet.”

-Jim Collins

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mohandas Gandhi