Welcome to Constantinos Grigoriadis' Art: March 2009

The Poetry Speaks

When my voice,
Can't describe with words my feelings,
Then I open the door inside me,
And the fantasy drives my thoughts
To make my feelings words.
Where the words use the poetry
To make you see the world
With the eyes of my soul,
And my poems speak to your heart.

Constantinos Grigoriadis ©

Constantinos Grigoriadi's Poems:

Alive
As at the cinema
Confession
Dear soul
Deep in my soul
Eyewitness person
Food to eternity
Identity
Lost inside my Today
Love without tomorrow
My gift
Mystic dialogue
Our best song
Poor words
Previously Intellingent Mammals
Roses between the thorns
Secret love
Shipwrecked person
Small world
Something more
The Aquarium
The bridge
The castle
The cry of my soul
The game
The glass of my life
The greatest loves
The Journey
The mirror
The party
The road of hope
The universe close to me
To live just for you
Truly illusion
We singing just for you
Welcome to the planet earth
When the dreams don’t move
When the night goes
You never can fly like a bird
Your great soul
Your hug
Contact
Survival
Soul sacrifice
Undesirable whispers
A lonely dream
My secret
Refuse
My home
Passage to the reality
Timeless
No compassion for killers
The road of the moon
Thoughts and dreams inside the crashing waves
Soul painting
Dreams of fantasy
Someone behind the door
Give it your name
Bodyquard
Empty room
Reality show
The poetry speaks
Some call this Life
Stand up and fight
Smile... the Death will change to Birth
Life in the Garbage
The punishment of the Paradise
A love frozen in time
Between dark and light
Repatriation
Moments
Prioritys
Mr. "Somebody"
The last Door
Reportaz
Heroes Next Door
An Old Man Thoughts
Tail From an Old Man's Diary

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QUOTES

Let's say you're walking around and you find a watch on the ground. As you examine it, you marvel at the intricately complex interweaving of its parts, a means to an end. Surely you wouldn't think this marvel would have come about by itself. The watch must have a maker. Just as the watch has such complex means to an end, so does nature to a much greater extent. Just look at the complexity of the human eye. Thus we must conclude that nature has a maker too !

William Paley(July 1743 – 25 May 1805)
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing,that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen
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When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

MORE QUOTES

You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
Don’t think of cost. Think of value.
Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
Too many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t know.
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.
If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.
Making one person smile can change the world – maybe not the whole world, but their world.
Saying someone is ugly doesn’t make you any prettier.
The only normal people you know are the ones you don’t know very well.
Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company.
As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.
Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.
Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak, sometimes it means you are strong enough and move on.
Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, etc…
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world; choose the one who makes your world beautiful.
Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.
True love isn’t about being inseparable; it’s about two people being true to each other even when they are separated.
While you’re busy looking for the perfect person, you’ll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
In life, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.
When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.
Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.
Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
People are more what they hide than what they show.
Sometimes people don’t notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.
Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.
Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.
Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It’s about being with in a way nobody else can.
Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.
Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion; today is special.
Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up, we forget they are also growing old.
When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it’s probably time to change the people around you.
Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.
When someone tells you, “You’ve changed,” it might simply be because you’ve stopped living your life their way.
Someone else doesn’t have to be wrong for you to be right.
Be happy. Be yourself. If others don’t like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn’t about pleasing everybody.
When you’re up, your friends know who you are. When you’re down, you know who your friends are.
Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.
If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you’re fooling yourself. That’s like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him.
No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.
is worth more than the grandest intention.
Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.
Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.
When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.
You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.
There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.
Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around you, but rather what’s happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.
If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.
What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while.
You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.
Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.

MORE QUOTES

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” - Dudley Field Malone
“If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.” - Albert Einstein
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” - Bill Copeland
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot
“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” - Walt Disney
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” - Milton Berle
”An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - M.K. Gandhi
”Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” - John F. Kennedy
”I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison
”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle
”It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.” - Howard Ruff
”It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” - Vince Lombardi
”Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” - Sun-Tzu
”Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” - Albert Einstein
”Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” - Benjamin Franklin
”Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.” - William Shakespeare
”That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
”The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.” - Will Rogers
”Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” - Will Rogers
”To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” - George Washington
”When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
”Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” - Henry David Thoreau
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
”I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” - Albert Einstein
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” - Albert Einstein
”Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” - Mark Twain
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” - Apple Computers
”You must be the change you want to see in the world.” - M.K. Gandhi
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” - E. Joseph Cossman
”Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” - Henry Ford
”Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” - Truman Capote
”Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” - Roy Goodman
”In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.” - Sid Caesar
“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” - Richard Bach
”The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.” - Margo Kaufman
“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” - Elbert Hubbard
”We see things not as they are, but as we are.” - H. M. Tomlinson
”The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” - Chinese Proverb
”Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.” - Japanese Proverb
”If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.” - Isaac B. Singer
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” - Jimmy Johnson
“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” - Sydney Harris
“The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.” - Foster’s Law
”I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” - Winston Churchill
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” - Winston Churchill
”Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” - Voltaire
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t go through life, grow through life.” - Eric Butterworth
“Positive anything is better than negative thinking.” - Elbert Hubbard
”Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” - William B. Sprague
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” - Albert Einstein
“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.” - Oprah Winfrey
“In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.” - Theodore Roosevelt
“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.” - Charles F. Kettering
“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
“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” - Dr. Denis Waitley
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” - John Wooden
“Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.” - Ray Norda
“Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.” - Joe Clark
“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” - Richard L. Evans
”A mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work if it isn’t open.” - Frank Zappa
“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” - J.M. Power
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” - Thomas Jefferson

MORE QUOTES

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” - Dennis P. Kimbro

“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.” - Matthew Keith Groves

“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.” - Prescott

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” - Helen Keller

“The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.” - Zig Ziglar

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” - Napoleon Hill

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” - Ray Kroc

”Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” - Vince Lombardi

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” - Zig Ziglar

“If not us, who? If not now, when?” - John F. Kennedy

“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” - Dale Carnegie

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” - Joe Girard

“Some men see things as they are and say why – I dream things that never were and say why not.” - George Bernard Shaw

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” - Sidney Greenberg

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” - Bill Cosby

“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.” - Hasidic Proverb

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” - Peter F. Drucker

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

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” - Dr. Seuss

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” - Pablo Picasso

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” - Robert Brault

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” - Albert Einstein
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confucius

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” - Theodore Roosevelt

“You make a living by what you earn; you make a life by what you give.” - Winston Churchill

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” - Lao Tzu

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” - Dwight D. Eisenhower

”Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great makes you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain

”Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self evident.” - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.   – Fyodor Dostoevsky

"You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.   – Margaret Young

SOME MORE QUOTES

This is my“depressed stance”. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve go to stand like this.   – Charlie Brown

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.   – Eleanor Roosevelt

Jumping for joy is good exercise.

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.   – Chinese proverb

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.   – Thornton Wilder

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.   – Robert Brault

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.   – Mahatma Gandhi

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.   – Walt Disney

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.   – Eleanor Roosevelt

Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen.   – Leonardo DaVinci

The path involves respect for all small and subtle things. Learn to recognize the right moment to strike the necessary attitudes.   – Manual of the Warrior of Light

I say “Out” to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.   – Louise Hay

The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.    – Anna Quindlen

I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped!

If you’re going through hell, keep going.   – Winston Churchill

Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.   – Ram Dass

Trust your gut.   – Barbara Walter

Action is the antidote to despair.   – Joan Baez

She took the leap and built her wings on the way down.

You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own and you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.   – Dr. Seuss

You had the power all along my dear.   – Glinda the Good Witch.

Today is a new day.   – Chicken Little

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.   – Leo Burnett

What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly.   – Richard Bach

Earth’s crammed with heaven.   – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.   – Michel de Montaigne

She decided to enjoy more and endure less.

I am unfolding in fulfilling ways. Only good can come to me. I now express health, happiness, prosperity, and peace of mind

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.   – Ayn Rand

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.   – Julia Cameron

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.   – Andre Gide

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions all life is an experience.   – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the future road loom ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction.   – Maya Angelou

Breath in experience.   – Muriel Rukeyser

Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.

I rejoice in what I have and I know that fresh new experiences are always ahead. I greet the new with open arms. I trust life to be wonderful.   – Louise Hay

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.   – Mae West

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.   – Eleanor Roosevelt

Sprinkle joy.   – Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.   – Johann von Goethe

She realized that she was missing a great deal by being sensible.

She was kind and loving and patient…with herself.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I’ve ended up where I needed to be.   – Douglas Adams

You’ll never be sad if you remember all the good things that have happened to you. Karolina Grekov

What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.

Conquering any difficulty always gives on a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one’s liberty.   – Henri Frederic Amiel

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.   – Sa’Di

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.   – Cecil Selig

A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.   – Nancy Rathburn

Everything you do prepares you for the next thing.   – John Abel

It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.   – Sally Kempto

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.   – Lemony Snicket

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at her. – David Brinkley

Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.   – Dorothy Parker

I begin now, today, to open myself to ever-increasing prosperity.   – Louise Hay

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert.   – Erma Bombeck

Anything you are good at contributes to happiness. – Bertrand Russell

The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.   – The Pilgramage

Never miss an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful.   – Janet Hobson

There is plenty for everyone, including me.   – Louise Hay

I focus my energy on my true intentions. I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.   – Louise Hay

A strong woman understands the importance of creating space for personal well-being, spiritual nourishment, and regeneration in order to maintain her authenticity, especially when the universe whacks her with its two-by-four and hands her days when it takes a great deal of courage just to show up.   – Laura Folse

Strength means recognizing that it is impossible to be strong all the time.   – Sally Franser

Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do.   – Martina Navratilova

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.   – Mary Tyler Moore

I breathe in the fullness and richness of life. I observe with joy as life abundantly supports me and supplies me with more good than I can imagine.   – Louise Hay

Keep breathing.   – Sophie Tucker

Dwell in possibility.   – Emily Dickinson

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.   – Ralph Waldo Emerson

While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.   – John Selden

Women really do rule the world. They just haven’t figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we’re all in big trouble.   – Dr. Leon

It’s okay to be fat. So you’re fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.   – Roseanne

I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.   – Louise Hay

Being strong means rejoicing in who you are, complete with imperfections.   – Margaret Woodhouse

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.   – John Lennon

Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.   – Roy Goodman

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.

One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves.   – L. Tom Perry

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.   – Hans Hofmann

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.   – Bill Gates

Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.   – Marianne Williamson

The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.   – Ninon de l’Enclos

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path to joy.   – Sarah Ban Breathnach

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.   – Christopher Morley

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.   – Will Rogers

She went out on a limb, had it break off behind her, and discovered she could fly.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.   – Henry David Thoreau

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It doesn’t happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time.   – Margery Williams

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.   – Helen Gurley Brown

The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed.   – William Gibson

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were.   – The ZahirShe discovered that she was the one she’d been waiting for.