"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be." Robert Fulghum (1937 - ), It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

"To control attention means to control experience, and therefore the quality of life." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Free yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our mind." Bob Marley, Redemption Songs

"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line." Henry David Thoreau, from the chapter "Economy" in Walden

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." Laurens van der Post, explorer and writer (1906-1996)

"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it." Charles de Lint (Celtic folk musician and story teller, b.1951)

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." Henry David Thoreau

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." Helen Keller

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” William Arthur Ward, college administrator, writer (1921-1994)

“At the very least, experience furnishes the houses of our lives -- but we choose whether to live in them.” I. Marc Carlson

"When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things." Joe Namath

"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult."E.B. White

“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” Tom Blandi

“Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don't have one, realize it's your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.” Amelia Earhart

“No matter what happens... somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.” Dave Barry

“Whether you won or lost the night before, it's a brand new game ... It's my job and my coaches’ job to remind the players that no matter what happened last night, it doesn't mean anything today. This is not like football where you have to wait one week to recover. You just have to get up every day and fight. If you carry it over, you're a loser.” Ozzie Guillon, manager of the 2005 World Champions

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” Voltaire

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." unknown

“Your world is as big as you make it.” Georgia Douglas Johnson

“It is always the secure who are humble.” G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)

“God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.” Langenhoven

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” Marcel Pagnol

“The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” Henry Boye

“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” Albert Camus, The Fall

“The only difference between a good day and a bad day is your attitude.” Dennis S. Brown

“In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.” Vince Poscente, Olympian (1961- )

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him(/her) who has the vision to recognize it as such.” Henry Miller

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.” Ralph Marston

“Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.” Earl Gray Stevens

“You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1712)

“The art of life lies in constant readjustment to our surroundings.” Okakura Kakuzo

“Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.” Barbara Sher

“Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, ‘I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?’” Margaret Maron (contemp.) American writer

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.” Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American writer, lecturer

“Youth is a quality and if you have it, you never lose it.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” George Bernard Shaw

“It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.” Ewing

“Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.” Jim Rohn

“If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” Bob Hope

“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in the empty heart there is room for nothing.” Antonio Porchia

“As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.” Marcus Aurelius

“Every man in the world is better than someone else. And not as good as someone else.” William Saroyan, writer (1908-1981)

“As long as you hide the light within you, you will remain a shadow of yourself.” Unknown

“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.” Washington Irving

“Technique without ideals is a menace. Ideals without technique are a mess.” Karl Llewellyn

“All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.” Anonymous

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” Carlos Castaneda

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” Sir John Lubbock

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden

“To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.” Charles Baudouin

“All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.” Harvey Mackay

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. the big differene is whether it is positive or negative.” W. Clement Stone

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.” G.K. Chesterton

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” Alan Alda

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.” Eleanor Roosevelt