attitude

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
~Albert Einstein

wise

All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.
~Publilius Syrus

difficulties

The gem cannot be polished without friction.
~Chinese proverb

will

It’s not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
~Hakeem Olajuwon

summer

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.

~Ada Louise Huxtable

choice

Why do you stay in your prison
when the door is so wide open?
~Rumi

challenge

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

~Joseph Campbell

content

Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.

~William Howard Stein

quality of man

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
~Adlai Stevenson II

worry

Worrying is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
~Unknown

humanity

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.
~Cicero

talk

For a day, for just one day, talk about that which disturbs no one - and brings some peace into your beautiful eyes.
~Hafiz

character

Our lives teach us who we are.
~Salman Rushdie

values

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.
~Elvis Presley