“Each business has to have a calling; it has to move people in order to succeed.”
- Arkadi Kuhlmann, founder of ING Direct
“There is no chance no destiny no fate that can hinder the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“I lost the job who told me who I was. Lots of people are going through that these days. It makes you ask some tough questions: what am I here for, where can I go to make a difference? But trust me, the answer is out there you’ve just gotta keep looking.”
From: The Forgotten, episode 3 “Football John”, Season 1, original air date: 10/6/2009
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
- Helen Keller
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
-Andre Gide
“Be careful of your thoughts,
they become words.
Be careful of your words,
they become actions.
Be careful of your actions,
they become habits.
Be careful of your habits,
they become character.
Be careful of your character,
it becomes your destiny…”
- Unknown
from the preface of MicroMessaging by Stephen Young
“He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;
Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth’s beauty or failed to express it;
Who has left the world better than he found it,
Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;
Whose life was an inspiration;
Whose memory a benediction.”
- Elisabeth-Anne “Bessie” Anderson Stanley
often missattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson or Robert Louis Stevenson
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.”
- Joseph Campbell
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
- Buddha
“We have two lives – the ones we’re given and the ones we make.”
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
