Thursday Inspiration

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you dream it, you can become it."

-William Arthur Ward

Wednesday Inspiration

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

-G. K. Chesterton

Tuesday Inspiration

"Tea and books-Mmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that bring near-bliss."

-Christine Hanrahan

Monday Inspiration

"One today is worth two tomorrows."

-Benjamin Franklin

Weekend Inspiration

"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

-Paulo Coelho

Friday Inspiration

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

-Anne Frank

Thursday Inspiration

"When in doubt, wear red."

-Bill Blass

Wednesday Inspiration

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Tuesday Inspiration

"For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."

-T. S. Eliot

Monday Inspiration

"Good instincts usually tell us what to do long before your head has figured it out."

-Michael Burke

Weekend Inspiration

"Joy is the best makeup."

-Anne Lamott

Friday Inspiration

"Start every day with a smile and get it over with."

-W.C. Fields

Wednesday Inspiration

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

-Mahatma Gandhi

Tuesday Inspiration

"If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind."

-Norman Vincent Peale

Monday Inspiration

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Weekend Inspiration

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

-Sophia Loren

Friday Inspiration

"Be who you are in every situation."

-Michael Johnson

Thursday Inspiration

"There is no fate but your own fate."

-Leslie Grimutter

Wednesday Inspiration

"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."

-Henry Ward Beecher

Tuesday Inspiration

"The greatest part of happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."

-Martha Washington

Monday Inspiration

"To succeed, we must first believe that we can."

-Michael Korda

Weekend Inspiration

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

-Oscar Wilde

Friday Inspiration

"No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field."

-Arnold J. Toynbee

Thursday Inspiration

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

-Albert Camus

Wednesday Inspiration

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

-Milton Berle

Tuesday Inspiration

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

-Benjamin Disraeli

Monday Inspiration

"And in the end, it's not the years of your life that count. It's the life in your years."

-Abraham Lincoln

Weekend Inspiration

"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."

-George S. Patton

Friday Inspiration

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

-Burton Hills

Thursday Inspiration

"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got
-Sophia Loren

Wednesday Inspiration

"Where there is great love there are always miracles."

-Willa Cather

Tuesday Inspiration

"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."

-Henry David Thoreau

Monday Inspiration

"Nobody cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."

-Cynthia Nelms

Weekend Inspiration

"Failure is impossible."

-Susan B. Anthony

Friday Inspiration

"Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire."

-Wayne Dyer

Thursday Inspiration

"A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view."

-Sophia Loren

Wednesday Inspiration

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

-Confucius

Tuesday Inspiration

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"As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others."

-Robert Schuller

Monday Inspiration

"Good fortune shies away from gloom. Keep your spirits up. Good things will come to you and you will come to good things."

-Glorie Abelhas

Weekend Inspiration

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

-Mark Twain

Friday Inspiration

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even in your bathtub."

-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Thursday Inspiration

"Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries."

-Sister Corita Kent

Wednesday Inspiration

"One of the most exciting and encouraging truths in this life is that we can always become someone new. We never have to settle for who we are."

-Scott Sorrell

Tuesday Inspiration

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

-Anne Frank

Monday Inspiration

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

-Anonymous

Weekend Inspiration

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

-David Lloyd George

Friday Inspiration

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

-Henry Miller

Thursday Inspiration

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength."

-St. Francis De Sales

Wednesday Inspiration

"To act is to affirm the worth of an end."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Tuesday Inspiration

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

-Marcel Proust