Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning.
—Chinese Proverb
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
—Louis Nizer
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
—Cynthia Ozick
The process of living is the process of reacting to stress.
—Stanley J. Sarnoff (American Surgeon)
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the food taste better, and the humour richer, because they are there.
—Judith Viorst (American Psychoanalyst)
Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
—Richard L. Evans (American Mormon Religions Leader)
Genuinely feeling successful is possible when you detach yourself from the things you desire and allow them to flow to you—and through you.
—Wayne Dyer (American Motivational Writer)
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
—Annie Besant (British-born Indian Theosophist)