Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, denying them.

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent..."

Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson

If you are not living on the edge, you take up too much room.

Native American saying

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee Expression

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
American Author and Physician

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

Vincent Van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

Jack London

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain
American Author

Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

The Buddha
The "Enlightened One"

Look and you will find it-what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
American Civil Rights Leader

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
King, Martin Luther

"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is."

Albert Einstein
German-born Theoretical Physicist

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes
Irving, Washington

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
Newton, Isaac