Alex Bravo

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway. - Kent Keith (frequently attributed to Mother Teresa) Simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. - don Miguel Ruiz    Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. - Sam Ewing

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. - Carl Jung Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. ~ Seneca Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. - Leo Tolstoy

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful. - Plato Live life with no regrets and no resentments. Whatever happened in the past, forgive yourself and others. Choose love. - JLH For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been." - John Greenleaf Whittier

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it. - Abraham Verghese You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. - Marcus Aurelius There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance. - John Wooden

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid First keep the peace within yourself, then you can bring peace to others. - Thomas A Kempis When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won't just change their life, it will change yours. - Mandy Hale You have heard that it was said, "Love your neighbor and hate your enemy." But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. - Jesus (Matthew 5:43-44) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? - Abraham Lincoln The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. - Marianne Williamson If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. - Nelson Mandela

Whether we allow external events to shape our lives at a core level is very much within our own control. - JLH All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. - Dorthea Brande Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. - Dale Carnegie

Fatigue makes cowards of us all. - Vince Lombardi 3 Rs that Plague Humanity - Regret, Resentment, and Revenge. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie It is hardly possible to build anything, if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail. - Lech Walesa

Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you. - Mary Anne Radmacher Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition - they somehow already know what you truly want to become. - Steve Jobs

Your inner knowing is your only true compass. - Joy Page Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli

He who angers you conquers you. - Elizabeth Kenny Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. - Mark Twain Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience. - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - Eleanor Roosevelt I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. - Dr Seuss Never surrender to the flow of time. Never put off what you have decided to do. - Simone Weil

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. - Henry Van Dyke The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see. - Robert Holden None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. - Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. - Dr. Suess He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus

The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant. - Unknown Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past. ~ Bessel van der Kolk Had I not created my whole world, I would certaintly have died in other people's. - Anaïs Nin

Optimism is a happiness magnet. - Mary Lou Retton Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. - Alan Watts