The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. Own your quirks. God made me the way I am, and I accept myself. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Real, Thinking, Empathy. Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. John C. Maxwell. It's something else. We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Be willing to be uncomfortable. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. We need to be fair. Take chances, make mistakes. Be happy with being you. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure. On becoming a person teaches you how to let go of certain social judgements. I feel the suffering of millions. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. If we were all the same, it would be boring. The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. Either I will find a way, or I will make one. I think every person has their own identity and beauty. You don't have to do anything to earn it. I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here. The goal of resilience is to thrive. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” ― Roy T. Bennett… An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. 25 quotes from A Way of Being: ‘People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream. I shall pass through this world but once. Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. Don't hurry, don't worry. Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living. I'm doing what I love. In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. Carl Rogers (1995). The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. A way to go. Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. 450 … A decent way to give it all over to the giver of it all,” ― William Saroyan Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. My love is my state of being. The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.