“If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” (more…)

“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.  Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked.  We are making use of only a small pert of our possible mental and physical resources.  … The human individual thus lives usualy far within his limits; he posseses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.  He energizes below his maximum, and behaves below his optimum.   … Either some unusual stimulus fills them with emotional excitement, or some unusual idea of necessity induces them to make an extra effort of will.  Excitements, ideas, and efforts in a word, are what carry us over the dam.”

— William James

“Ask yourself three questions … and you will know who you are. Ask: what do you believe in? What do you hope for? But most important — ask: what do you love?”

— Paullina Simons, author

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in (more…)

“You already have within you (more…)

“A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, (more…)