“Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence”

“Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal.”

“Our response to the external conditions of our lives can be greatly altered by our perceptions of those conditions.”

“We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day.”

“Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is a new beginning.”

“Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.”

“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move ag...”

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”

“The road to success is always under construction”