Quote of the Day

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

Mireille Guiliano

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Anonymous

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Dale Carnegie

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Ernst Fischer

I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

Jasper Johns

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Bernard Law Montgomery

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.

Theodore Sturgeon

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

William G.T. Shedd

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Rumi

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Iris Murdoch

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

Shawn Achor

I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.

Lawrence Kasdan

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Dr. Seuss

Live not for Battles Won.Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Gwendolyn Brooks

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.

Erik Erikson

An empty canvas is full.

Robert Rauschenberg

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

Elie Wiesel

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Claude Debussy