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Sometimes all it takes to get us in the right frame of mind are a few wise words. We've compiled a few of our favorites here into some helpful categories. Enjoy!  Be Inspired!  Share! Meaning & Purpose Transitions Living Intentionally Rediscovering YourSelf Abundance & Gratitude

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances -- to choose one's way."

"What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing. When you're doing what you love – mothering, designing airplanes, swimming -- you're going to be really good at it. And, when you do what you love, you're going to last for the long haul in your profession."

"The future belongs to those who believe in beauty of their dreams."

"Think about what you have to give, not even in terms of dollars because I believe that your life is about service. It's about what you came to give to the world, to your children, to your family."

"We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed."

"Everything that inspires us, everything that excites us, everything that makes us go "Wow!". From the Empire State Building to those six spent Apollo lunar modules sitting on the surface of the moon tonight. From Disneyland to the four-minute mile. From the Emancipation Proclamation to a free South Africa – was borne out of some ridiculous, absurd human being with a dream."

"Do what makes you truly happy. There is radiance in the face of a woman who takes joy in her life."

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be. I believe you can only do this when you stop long enough to hear the whisper you might have drowned out, that small voice compelling you toward the kind of work you'd be willing to do even if you weren't paid."

"Vocation is where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need."

"Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up."

"When you're in alignment with your calling, it's as fun as being a kid again."

"Change has considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."

"Sparks fly when we start to change the rules. There is always confrontation when we act instead of react. And in the midst of conflict and confusion, the pain of forging on can be almost unbearable. It would be easy to throw in the towel and give up. But sometimes there's just no way out but through. The rewards of discovering that path are great and will stay with us for a lifetime."

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."

"Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once your have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before."

"It's all the same, it's all connected. Change the world? Change yourself."

"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now."

"Some things I cannot change; my age, who my relatives are, my eye color, my height, my childhood experiences, my inborn talents, my nature, whether the sun will shine, my job history, what I will inherit, how my parents feel, yesterday's lost opportunities, how long I will live, who forgives me, how my parents treated me, how much I am loved, the past.
Some things I can change: the youthfulness of my spirit, who my friends are, my hair color, my weight, my adult experiences, my achievements, my character, what I will bequeath, how I feel, my ability to act on today's opportunities, how I will live, whom I forgive, how to treat my own children, how much I love, the future."

"When I feed on resentments and anger, I am giving someone else rent-free space in my head."

"Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye."

"I learned that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness."

"I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that, too, is a deed."

"What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth."

"We have only one mission and that is to make ourselves happy. The only way we can be happy is by being who we are."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

"Dreams are illustrations …from the book your soul is writing about you."

"Right now you are ONE choice away from a new beginning."

"What I know for sure is the most important journey of our lives doesn't necessarily involve climbing the highest peak or trekking around the world. The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

"We can only see in others what we see in ourselves. We can only love and accept in others as we love and accept ourselves."

"Often healing is not becoming more that who we are, it's undoing the way we have fixed ourselves in order to win the approval of those around us. It's returning to our own integrity, even though the integrity may, at first, feel unfamiliar because we've never lived from there before. It's reclaiming the parts we've put in our shadow. And some of those parts may be very powerful and positive parts for which we could not get acceptance from the people around us. So it's more like an uncovering process, rather than an adding on of something new."

"Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me."

"Age is sexy because it brings knowledge of yourself."

"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide."

"I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others."

"Did it ever occur to you that there is a real greatness in you? Did it ever occur to you that this greatness awaits recognition – from you? Did it ever occur to you that you are your most important human being and that the famous people you read about in your newspaper are of no consequence compared to your importance to yourself? And, did it ever occur to you that in your uniqueness as a human being you have an uncommon potential, which you owe it to yourself to nurture, accepting yourself for what you are, refusing to model yourself on other people?"

"It's a sad day when you find out that it's NOT accident or time or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you."

"Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value in your life."

"I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving – not giving and taking."

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

"Abundance is, in large part, an attitude."

"Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't."