"Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be." 

-Alan Watts

"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful." 
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others." 
-Gautama Buddha

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." 

-Henry David Thoreau

"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect." 

-Alan Cohen

"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."
-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." 

-Sam Keen

"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck." 
-Dalai Lama XIV

"If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good."
-Ajahn Chah

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." 

-Sonya Friedman

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." 

-Maya Angelou

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
-Dr. Robert Anthony

"I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being." 

-Hafiz of Shiraz

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
-Ambrose Redmoon

"To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is: a dissatisfaction with self."
-Joan Didion

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." 

-Mahatma Gandhi

"If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right."
-Bob Basso

"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation." 

-Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough." 

-Robert Heller