“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

Charles Kingsley

“If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.”

Rosanne Cash

“To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.”

Epictetus

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

Mark Twain

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Anais Nin

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did. Sail away from the safe harbor. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

“I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.”

Stephen de Staebler

“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

Trina Paulus