'Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision.' - Bob Proctor

True intelligence operates silently. 
Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.♥

~ Eckhart Tolle

‎"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." -- Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.” - August Wilson

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind." — Mahatma Gandhi

"You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand." - Irene C. Kassorla

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.” - Anthony Robbins

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.” - Norman Vincent Peale

"Remember that who you're being is just as important as what you're doing. Focus on the attitude behind your behavior." -- Barbara Hateley

“Always give without remembering, always receive without forgetting.” -- William Barclay

“Always give without remembering, always receive without forgetting.” -- William Barclay

“Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.” - Ralph Waldo Trine

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and do it because the world needs people who have come alive."

‎"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.” – Carl Jung

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – W. Somerset Maugham

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”–Vince Lombardi

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”–William Arthur Ward

“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”–William Arthur Ward

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”–Wayne Gretzky

“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”–Chinese Proverb

“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.” - Jack Canfield

“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” -- William Wallace

An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?” I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.

“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.

She jokingly replied, “I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…” “No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. “I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!” she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine” as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium.

As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.”

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it!There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose.” She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.

At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they'll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get, we make a Life by what we give.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes.
Because for those who love with heart and soul,
there is no such thing as separation.

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them." -- Plato

“Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.” -- Frederick Wilcox

People who like to judge and throw accusations around you are really just trying hard to cover up their own issues and insecurities..

“Winners never quit and quitters never win. ” -- Vince Lombardi

“@GreatestQuotes: "Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses." - Alphonse Karr”

Arrogance is often a mask for inferiority complex... don't get bullied by such people. They need your empathy - not your fear...

‎"Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position." -- Brian Tracy

“Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?” 
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?” 
― Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You

“Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.” 

“We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” 
― Robin S. Sharma

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” 
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” 
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning." -- Claude Bernard

‎"Right things r not possible always". "Possible things r not right always". "Be true to ur heart u will never go wrong".

‎"Managing to have a sense of humor makes it a lot easier to manage people." -- Steve Wilson

‎"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real." -- Thomas Merton

"The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." -- John Ruskin

‎"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -- Socrates

‎"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -- Socrates

"There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man who wants a book to read." -- G.K. Chesterton

The best revenge is happiness, because
nothing drives people more crazy than seeing someone actually having a good life.

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” -- Henry Ford

"Believe....and the magic will follow"

"Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come"

“In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.” — Spencer Johnson

• "Life's an adventure! Live it while you can. You can never have today again, tomorrow only comes once and yesterday is gone forever. Make your choice wisely than live the adventure you create"

"There is a voice inside of you that whispers all day long, 'I
feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong.' No
teacher, preacher, parent, friend or wise man can decide
what's right for you -- just listen to the voice that speaks
inside."

"Life's an adventure! Live it while you can. You can never have today again, tomorrow only comes once and yesterday is gone forever. Make your choice wisely than live the adventure you create"

"When someone tells you that you can't go any farther, just tell them to look behind you and see how far you've come."

‎"When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier." -- Jim Rohn

“To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.” - Peter McWilliams

You can't plan life. Because no matter how perfect your plan is, life has a way to rearrange it.

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

‎"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm." -- Pope Paul VI

‎"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone." -- Ronald Reagan

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -- George Orwell

those who follow the crowd will nvr b followed by it

“The only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” - Tom Bradley

Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and most importantly, a beautiful soul.

“Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.” -- Tom Hopkins