Make a commitment today to get up, get out, get busy and get things done. You can create the life you long to have. 

"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness." 

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality." 

It is fine to achieve your accomplishments and savor your victories, but there is not enough time in life to reason your laurels for long. 

"We each have the talent to take us past the circumstances and challenges life brings to propel us into our greatness. Instead of giving into the challenges and difficulties in life and asking yourself, why me?, embrace the enormous possibilities and proclaim, Why not me?" 

"There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win." 

"Goals help you channel your energy into action." 

"It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams." 

“the truth is never horrible, only interesting.”

“An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”

“Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.”

“For a society is always most cruel to those who disclose and reveal its secrets, when through dishonesty society itself has outraged Nature.”

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons

“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”

“There are many fine things we cannot say if we have to shout.”

“What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?”

“Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it”

“A man's riches are based on what he can do without.”

“We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsmen who cannot read at all, and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.”

“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.”

“It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?”

“The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.”

“As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”

“That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way.”