Phil Crosby - lead gently

"You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right." ~Phil Crosby

Robert Louis Stevenson - plant

"Dont judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Abraham Lincoln - resolution

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." ~Abraham Lincoln

Dennis Waitley - achievement

"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval." ~Dennis Waitley

Doménico Cieri Estrada - banks

"Reason and faith are both banks of the same river." ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

Henry David Thoreau - fate

"What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate." ~Henry David Thoreau

Zig Ziglar - push and pull

"If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull." ~Zig Ziglar

Franklin D. Roosevelt - children's future

"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

Wayne Dyer in Twitter

"NOW is all there is and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives." ~Wayne Dyer

"You can't choose up sides on a round world." ~Wayne Dyer

Anaïs Nin - friend

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." ~Anaïs Nin

Wislawa Szymborska - book of events

"Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle." ~Wislawa Szymborska

Patrick Henry

"Give me liberty or give me death." ~Patrick Henry, US Statesman

Robert Olen Butler - impulses

"What ennobles us humans is that we can act against our own impulses when we know they're wrong. We can do the thing we don't want to do out of love for another person." ~Robert Olen Butler

Heinrich Heine - silence

"Silence is the essential condition of happiness."~Heinrich Heine

Maguid Maruhom - life

"A life with a direction can always meet lots of storms. As long as you did not create your problems, live and learn to be happy with them. A boat that does not leave the harbor is always safe, but it doesn't get anywhere." ~Maguid Maruhom

Susan Deborah - minds

"Our minds do not like paradoxes. We want things to be clear, so we can maintain our illusions of safety. Certainty breeds tremendous smugness." ~Susan Deborah

Gene Parker - true disciples

"True Disciples of Jesus Christ rejoice when they see God at work. Whether it is answered prayer, a miracle, the repentance and calling of a person or any divine work that glorifies God. Genuine believers spontaneously celebrate, as angels do, when they see God's activity." ~Gene Parker

Dr. Louis J. Camuti - animlas

"Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other."
~Dr. Louis J. Camuti

Quotes on Drama

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." ~Alfred Hitchcock

"God doesn't get rid of the drama in your life. He just gets rid of the cheap drama." -Marianne Williamson

Dale Carnegie - road

Echo Point, Katoomba NSW
May 2011

"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most." ~Dale Carnegie

Stephen Shore - Photography

Oberon Plateau
May 2011

Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture." ~Stephen Shore

Aaron Copland - music

Rayoma
Music from Heaven
Market Place CBD
26 November 2012

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable." ~Aaron Copland

Rainer Maria Rilke - dreams

"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Robert Jones - beauty

"Beauty comes from the expression and character in your face—not just its symmetry."
~Robert Jones

Ben Jonson - argument

"Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar."
~Ben Jonson on Argument

Viktor E. Frankl - remembrance

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the people who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." ~Viktor E. Frankl

Joseph J. Sweere - gift

"The greatest gift you can give others is your best you—your healthiest you." ~Joseph J. Sweere

Iyanla Vanzant - experience

"Everything we experience—no matter how unpleasant—comes into our lives to teach us something." ~Iyanla Vanzant

Nikos Kazantzakis - needs

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free."
~Nikos Kazantzakis on Needs

Mehmet Oz - right thing

"To achieve your goals, make the right thing to do the easy thing to do." ~Dr. Mehmet Oz

G. C. Lichtenberg - book

"A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out."
~G. C. Lichtenberg on Books

Walter Winchell - gossip

"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in such a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid." ~Walter Winchell on Gossip

Doris Day - animals

"The more that people live with animals, the more they know how precious they are and what they do to enhance our lives." ~Doris Day, Actress, Animal Activist.

Bob Greene - life you deserve

"Care deeply for yourself, and have the wherewithal to do what it takes to make yourself happy. Go out and claim the life you deserve!" ~Bob Greene

George Santayana - vanity

"The highest form of vanity is love of fame." ~George Santayana

Samuel Butler - honor

"Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on.” ~Samuel Butler on Honor

Robert Louis Stevenson - Positive Attitude

More than 100 years ago, author Robert Louis Stevenson offered the following tips for maintaining a positive attitude. They still apply today.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.

Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.

You can't please everybody. Don't let criticism worry you.

Don't let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.

Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.

Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.

Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy, enmity, grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.

Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about new places.

Don't hold postmortems. Don't spend your time brooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don't be one who never gets over things.

Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.

Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

Richard Henry Stoddard - flowers

“We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.” ~Richard Henry Stoddard

Frederic Chopin - Apathy

“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.” ~Frederic Chopin on Apathy

Anne Glusker - state of mind

"When we enter a state of mindful attention, the present moment, the now, eases open. And when it does, life pours in." ~Anne Glusker

Haruki Murakami - touchstone

"No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone." ~Haruki Murakami

Rev. Ed Bacon - transformation

"Open your heart and you will be amazed at the transformations taking place all around you." ~Rev. Ed Bacon

Susan Orlean - possibility

"The reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility." ~Susan Orlean

Atul Gawande - small steps

"We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right—one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in." ~Atul Gawande

Indira Gandhi - prosperity

"We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible" ~Indira Gandhi

Martha Graham - learn by practice

"I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same." ~Martha Graham

Irwin Edman - myths

"It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved." ~Irwin Edman

William Pollard - opportunity

"It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute." ~William Pollard

Proverbs - words

"Fine words butter no parsnips." ~Proverb

Winston Churchill -life

"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed." ~Winston Churchill