serenity through inspiration

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
unknown

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Confucious


Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Kathy Clark

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Lisa Alther


The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
Joe Girard

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
Sri da Avabhas

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Henri Frederick Amiel

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
Anthony Storr

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan