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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

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

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Your only limit is the amount of action you’re willing to take.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Dreams don’t work unless you do.

Motivation gets you started. Habit keeps you going.

Small steps every day lead to big results over time.

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Every artist was first an amateur.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Imagination is the beginning of creation.

To create one must be willing to be stone stupid.

Creativity takes courage.

The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.

Don’t think. Feel. Let the colors speak.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but actually, you've been planted.

Fail fast, fail often, but always fail forward.

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure—it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Own who you are, not who they want you to be.

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Confidence is not ‘they will like me.’ Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t.’

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I’m not arguing, I’m just explaining why I’m right.

I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.

I used to play piano by ear, but now I use my hands.

I'm not lazy, I'm in energy-saving mode.

I put the “pro” in procrastination.

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.

I didn’t lose my temper today—I left it at home on purpose.

Behind every successful person is a substantial amount of coffee.

I don’t need therapy. I just need to vent into the void and hope someone likes my story.

My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I was supposed to do.

I’m not short. I’m concentrated awesome.

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

You are my today and all of my tomorrows.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

I choose you. And I'll choose you over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Everything that exists is in a state of becoming.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it what you put into it.

Let go of the thoughts that don’t serve you.

Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Wherever you are, be there totally.

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.

Do every act of your life as though it were your last.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

What you seek is seeking you.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

We are the authors of our realities, not merely characters in them.

Perception is projection.

Truth is not discovered by removing error, but by uncovering deeper layers of illusion.

Everything you know is wrong.

The map is not the territory.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Those we love don’t go away; they walk beside us every day.

What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Grief is just love with no place to go.

He touched many lives in his passing, though none so deeply as mine.

Not absence, but love in memory, stays.

Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on branches too weak for its weight.

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him anew.