Just a few of my favorites:
“I promise. You all are your own greatest limiters. Get over it. Get hungry. Do it.”
In the immortal words of Master Yoda: “Do or do not, there is no try…”
“Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.” -Geri Weitz
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” -Thomas Edison
“Have nothing in your home that you don’t know to be useful or don’t believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris
“Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle, gracious kind, that God delights in, and your husbands will be captivated. Be good and loyal, unanxious and unintimidated and you will be true daughters of Sarah. It is your inner disposition, not your outer appearance, that matters most.” -paraphrased from 1st Peter 3
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” -C. S. Lewis
“In the long run, no one can show another the error that is within him, unless the other is convinced that his critic first sees and loves the good that is within him. So while we are perfectly willing to tell our adversary he is wrong, we will never be able to do so effectively until we can ourselves appreciate where he is right. And we can never accept his judgment on our errors until he gives evidence that he really appreciates our own peculiar truth. Love, love only, love of our deluded fellow man as he actually is, in his delusion and in his sin: this alone can open the door to truth. As long as we do not have this love, as long as this love is not active and effective in our lives (for words and good wishes will never suffice) we have no real access to the truth.” -Thomas Merton
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