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“Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow. ”
— Anne Wilson Schaef
“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
— Jim Rohn
“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?”
— Abdul Kalam
“Life can be the scariest and most beautiful thing simultaneously.”
— Maxime Lagace
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.”
— Stephen R. Covey
“Exultest thou over the treasures thou dost possess, knowing they shall perish? Rejoicest thou in that thou rulest a span of earth, when the whole world, in the estimation of the people of Bahá, is worth as much as the black in the eye of a dead ant?”
— Baha'u'llah
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be giving an audience to failure.”
— Napoleon Hill
“The saddest aspect of life is that there is no one on earth whose happiness is such that he won't sometimes wish he were dead rather than alive.”
— Herodotus
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”
— Pema Chodron
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way.”
— Osho
“The only thing you take with you when you’re gone is what you leave behind.”
— John Allston
“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
— Robert Browning
“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
— Niels Bohr
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
— Rudyard Kipling
“To do a great right do a little wrong.”
— William Shakespeare
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
— Chinese Proverb
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca
“To become what you are not, behave as you do not.”
— T.S. Eliot
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”
— Khalil Gibran
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ”
— Orison Swett Marden
“Wherever you are is the entry point.”
— Kabir

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