Quote of The Week

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. ~ Woodrow Wilson ~

If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. ~ Bruce Lee ~

This week we lost one of the most profound writers of my time growing up, Toni Morrison.  So, this week’s quote comes from her. “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” ~Toni Morrison~

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~Helen Keller~

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ~ Maya Angelou ~

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. –E. E. Cummings

And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. ~ William Shakespeare (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” –Og Mandino