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This is the archive of Reflections as posted daily on the VTwin Mama home page. If you need a little inspiration or a wise saying to get you through, here they are!

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. – Salvador Dali

Sometimes it takes a full tank of gas before you can think straight. – Unknown

Gray-haired riders don’t get that way from pure luck. – Unknown

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. – John Quincy Adams

It is never too late to become what you might have been. – George Eliot (pen name of Victorian writer Mary Ann Evans)

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. – Margaret Fuller

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

If YOU see a need, perhaps it is because YOU are supposed to address it. – Dorothy, VTM Sister Susan's Mom

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. – Nadia Comaneci (Romanian gymnast)

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. – Larry McMurty

Do not follow where the path may lead; go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. – Unknown

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – St. Francis of Assisi

As soon as there is life there is danger. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every calling is great when greatly pursued. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Then we began to ride. My soul smoothed itself out, a long-cramped scroll, freshening and fluttering in the wind. – from the poem The Last Ride by Robert Browning

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? – Igor Stravinsky

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

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso

The wisest mind has something yet to learn. – George Santayana

On your journey to experience serenity and happiness you may encounter those who don’t understand or who are jealous; Experience it anyway. – Mother Teresa (paraphrased from a longer piece of prose)

In soloing, as in other activities, it is far easier to start something than to finish it. – Amelia Earhart

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. – George Horace Lorimer

Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. – Swedish Proverb

Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen. – Marcia Wieder

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. – Anne Lamott

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. – Benjamin Franklin

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

All great achievements require time. – Maya Angelou

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. – Pearl S. Buck

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. – H. Jackson Browne

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. – Dorothy Thompson

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. – Marie Curie

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. – Dale Carnegie

Nothing happens unless first we dream. – Carl Sandburg

Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can. – Unknown

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

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Unknown

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas Edison

Independence is happiness. – Susan B. Anthony

Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks it's head out of a car window. – Unknown

There is merit in the attempt, and a whole lot accomplished along the way. – Unknown

She who stops learning stops living. – Unknown

Life is not a test - it's ok to ask for help! – seen on a coffee mug

Follow your bliss and doors open to you and only you. No one else can open those doors. – Joseph Campbell

When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets. – Nietzsche

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. – from the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities. – Terry Josephson

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. – Chinese Proverb

Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life. – Victor Hansen

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – Marilyn vos Savant

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same. – Anonymous

He is able who thinks he is able. – Buddha

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 tradewinds in your sails! Explore! Dream! Discover! – Mark Twain

Never hesitate to ride past the last street light at the edge of town. – Unknown

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. – Epictetus

I've developed a new philosophy . . . I only dread one day at a time. – Charles M. Schulz's character Charlie Brown

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. – William James

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. – Anne Wilson Schaef

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. – Martina Horner

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. – Norman Vincent Peale

This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything. – Scott Reed

A smile confuses an approaching frown. – Unknown

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine. – Unknown

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. – Charles F. Kettering

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. – John Seely Brown

People are like motorcycles . . . each is customized a bit differently. – Unknown

Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you're really a yawn if it goes. – Bette Midler

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. – Robert Collier

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. – Unknown

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Sr. Francis Bacon

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?" – Pat Schroeder, former Colorado Congresswoman

All good things are wild, and free. – Henry David Thoreau

A diamond is a piece of coal that finished what it started. – Unknown

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. – Norman Vincent Peale

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. – Malcolm S. Forbes

Until the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change, you will never change. – Rod Delmonico, UT Baseball Coach

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. – Kahlil Gibran

A thousand miles journey begins with the first step. – Mao Zedong

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow. He who would search for pearls must dive below. – John Dryden

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them. – Louisa May Alcott

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. – W. Edwards Deming

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best. – Spanish Proverb

Well, la-de-da! – Annie in the movie Annie Hall

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. – Benjamin Franklin

. . . in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. – Winston Churchill

For fast acting relief, try slowing down. – Lily Tomlin

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. – William Orville Douglas

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. – Charles F. Kettering

Mistakes are their own instructors. – Horace

Do not despair of your life. You have force enough to overcome your obstacles. – Henry David Thoreau

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. – Leonardo da Vinci

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first. – Murphy's Law

Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul. – Unknown

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. – Denis Waitley

Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly. – Unknown

A good long ride can clear your mind, restore your faith, and use up a lot of fuel. – Unknown

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill

We usually get what we anticipate. . . . – Claude M. Bristol

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. – Anais Nin

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. – R. I. Fitzhenry

After taking ninety-nine years to climb a stairway, the tortoise falls and says there is a curse on haste. – Maltese Proverb

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. – Marquis de Condorcet

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. – Dale Carnegie

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. – Albert Camus

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. – Thomas A. Edison

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. – Ivy Baker Priest

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. – Leonardo da Vinci

Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. – James Bryant Conant

I wish they would only take me as I am. – Vincent Van Gogh

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. – Mother Theresa

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. – Dee Hock

Every flower must grow through dirt. – Anonymous

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. – Emily Dickinson

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Woman can if she will. – Augusta Van Buren, motorcycling pioneer

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. – James Stephens

Remember your dreams. – Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. – Mao Tse-tung

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. – Albert Einstein

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

A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John W. Gardner

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try. – Rosabeth Kantor

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.  – James Joyce

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – Sir John Lubbock

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. – Baltasar Gracian 

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. – Albert Camus

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. – Galileo Galilei

Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart. – Anonymous

Let the beauty we love be what we do. – Rumi

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Gandhi

I think the key is for women not to set any limits. – Martina Navratilova

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. – Maya Angelou

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. – Faith Baldwin

Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes. – Irish saying

All that spirits desire, spirits attain. – Kahlil Gibran

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. – Brendan Francis

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. – Melba Colgrave

A man's errors are his portals of discovery. – James Joyce

Anticipation and Hope are born twins. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He is able who thinks he is able. – Buddha

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. – Pablo Casals

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. – Hal Borland

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. – Doug Horton

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. – Homer

New Year's Day:  Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions.  Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. – Mark Twain

If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, you are right. – Henry Ford

Neither talent, genius nor education can accomplish as much as persistence. – Unknown

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. – Maria Robinson

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed. – Robert Frost

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of. – Blaise Pascal

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities. – Robert H. Schuller

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many baby steps. – Helmut Schmidt

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. – Goethe

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. – Tommy Lasorda

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. – Mario Andretti

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do. – Karl Weick

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up. – Jesse Jackson

Memphis: The word triumph starts with "try" and ends with...? Young Mumble: umph? Memphis: That's right, a big ol' UMPH! – from the 2006 movie "Happy Feet"

When I discover who I am, I'll be free. – Ralph Ellison

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? – Vincent van Gogh

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. – Madonna

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. – Charles Spurgeon

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life. – Ethan Embry

If you are going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions. – Dolores Hitchens

It doesn't make sense to me, that's why I trust it. – Unknown

Some people dream of success . . . while others wake up and work hard at it. – Unknown

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. – Laurence Shames

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. – Abraham Lincoln

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. – William Feather

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. – General George S. Patton

When bad things happen, remember that it's not that God allows them to happen . . . it's what God does to help you thru it that's important. Something I learned the hard way. – Victoria

There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence. – Unknown

The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way. – African Proverb

In serving each other, we become free. That is the very heart of Camelot - not these stones, timbers, towers or palaces - burn them all . . . and Camelot lives on. Because it lives in us. It is a belief we hold in our hearts. – from the movie Camelot

My "Camelot" is being on the open road with my best friend and husband - not knowing or caring where the bikes are headed or where we will lay our heads for the night. Living life, one journey to the next. Happy Trails, – Maggie Mae

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. – Gloria Steinem

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

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. – Unknown

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming 'WOW what a ride!' – Unknown

Fun is good. – Dr. Suess

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. – Rosalia de Castro

Practice is the best of all instructors. – Publilius Syrus

Understanding is a two-way street. – Eleanor Roosevelt

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. – Helen Keller

Procrastination is the thief of time. – Edward Young

If you're going to panic, panic constructively. – Unknown

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. – Henry Ford

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. – Unknown

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life. – Ethan Embry

You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing. – Unknown

If you only do what you know you can do – you never do very much. – Tom Krause

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – A.A. Milne (Christopher Robin to Pooh)

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. – Dorothea Lange

Patience and fortitude conquer all things. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that can have patience can have what he will. – Benjamin Franklin

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. – Grace Pulpit

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. – Alice Walker

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. – Doug Firebaugh

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. – Unknown

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond. – Jan Myrdal

No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. – Antoinette Deshoulieres

If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours. – Proverb

To try and to fail, is not laziness. – African Proverb

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

Courage = feeling the fear, and doing it anyway. – Unknown

Those who wish to sing, always find a song. – Swedish Proverb

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. – Larry Bird

Friends are like stars, you can't always see them but you know that they're there. – Unknown

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. – Chinese Proverb

My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me. – Unknown

Every chance taken is another chance to win. – Unknown

Things could be worse.  Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. – Unknown

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. – Tom Robbins

Sharing is loving. – Unknown

Cares melt when you ride your motorcycle. – VTwin Mama

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. – Robert Graves

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. – Bil Keane

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. – Mark Twain

Energy and persistence conquer all things. – Benjamin Franklin

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. – Mabel Newcomber

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions. – John A. Simone

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. – Charles Dudley Warner

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. – Zora Neale Hurston

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. – Puzant Kevork Thomajan

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. – Dr. Loretta Scott

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. – Francesca Reigler

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. – Victor Borge

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. – Irish Proverb

You learn something every day if you pay attention. – Ray LeBlond

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits. – Satchel Paige

"I can't" isn't a reason to give up; it's a reason to try harder. – Unknown

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity. – Unknown

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. – Unknown

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. – Jim Rohn

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. – Andy Warhol

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Donald Kendall

May I go forward with the power of empowering and the passion for compassion, smib! – Priestess J'Noel

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. – Woodrow Wilson

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. – Bertolt Brecht

We are all special cases. – Albert Camus

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. – Marcus Aurelius

No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself. – Thomas Mann

With love and patience, nothing is impossible. – Daisaku Ikeda

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. – Helen Hayes (at 73)

 . . . you have no complaint. You are what you and you ain't what you ain't. So listen up buster, and listen up good, stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood . . . – John Prine's "Dear Abby"

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. – Kahlil Gibran

Recognition is the greatest motivator. – Gerard C. Eakedale

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. – Unknown

All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. – Unknown

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." – Mary Anne Radmacher

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. – Alice Walker

It takes a thousand voices to tell a single story. – Native American saying

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. – Flora Edwards

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to act as if it were impossible to fail. – Dorothea Brande

I not only use all of the brains I have, but all I can borrow. – Woodrow Wilson

A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part. – Randolph Bourne

We will surely get to our destination if we join hands. – Kyi, Aung San Suu

Tough times are there so you can have a good time later on – and really appreciate it! – Unknown

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy. – Spider Robinson

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. – Howard Ruff

We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. – Unknown

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. – Hal Borland

Patience is the companion of wisdom. – Saint Augustine

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we'd be millionaires. – Abigail Van Buren

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them. – Tom Krause

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. – Edward H. Harriman

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of an intelligent effort. – John Ruskin

The time to be happy is now; the place to be happy is here. – Robert G. Ingersoll

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. – Rosalynn Carter

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. – Frank Tyger

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself. – Dr. Phil

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. – Charlie Chaplin

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. – Robert Bryne

No man knows what he can do till he tries. – Publilinus Syrus

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

The less routine the more life. – Amos Bronson Alcott

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. – Charles R. Swindoll

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. – Napoleon Bonaparte

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. – Flora Whittemore

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. – Unknown

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. – Naguib Mahfouz

Education is not received. It is achieved. – Unknown

It is the imagination that lights the slow fuse of the possible. – Emily Dickinson

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. – Aldous Huxley

The key to change... is to let go of fear. – Rosanne Cash

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. – Charles R. Swindoll

The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'. – Norman Vincent Peale

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future. – Unknown

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Try and fail, but don't fail to try. – Stephen Kaggwa

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. – William Shakespeare

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart. – Unknown

People who never make mistakes must get tired of doing nothing. – Unknown

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. – Unknown

The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there. – Robert M. Pirsig

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. – Samuel Johnson

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. – Oscar Wilde

Fun does not come in sizes. – the Bart Simpson character

A danger foreseen is half avoided. – Proverb

Arriving at one point is the starting point to another. – John Dewey

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. – Dr. Carl Sagan

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. – Unknown

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. – Unknown

If we are never challenged, we would never found out who we truly can be! – VTM

Trying times do not mean you stop trying. – Unknown

Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste. – Benjamin Franklin

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others. – Robert Schuller

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. – Roseanne Barr

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. – George Bernard Shaw

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

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. – Vincent van Gogh

I'm going to live forever. So far, so good! – Unknown

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. – Henry David Thoreau

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. – Daniel J. Boorstin

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. – Franklin P. Jones

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. – Anatole Broyard

A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. – Natalie Goldberg

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross. – Unknown

Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. – Kobi Yamada

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. – St. Francis of Assisi

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. – Unknown

It's not enough to know how to ride - one must also know how to fall. – Mexican Proverb

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind. – Unknown

Always replace the cheapest parts first. – Unknown

Calmness is the cradle of power. –Josiah Gilbert Holland

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. – Sheila Graham

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. – Epictetus

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile ... initially scared me to death. – Betty Bender

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. – Unknown

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. – Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. – Salma Hayek

A man grows most tired while standing still. – Chinese Proverb

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air… – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. – Ben Sweetland

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. – Caroline Norton

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. – Unknown

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. – Maya Angelou

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. – Emily Dickinson

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. – Henry Ford

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse! – Derwood Fincher

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more. – Jules Renard

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. – Danny Kaye

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. – Boris Pasternak

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less. – George Bernard Shaw

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. – Henry Moore

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door. – Irish Blessing

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

Just Do It! – Nike

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities. – Terry Josephson

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups. – Deborah Tannen

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. – Roger Miller

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. – Lauren Bacall

Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true. – Unknown

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. – Lillian Gish

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. – Virginia Woolf

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. – Seneca (Roman philosopher)

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. – Shrii Shrii Anandamurti

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances. – Julia Soul

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. – Eileen Caddy

If you want to stand out, don't be different; be outstanding. – Meredith West

Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. – Dr. Joyce

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. – Unknown

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. – Buddha

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young. – Ocsar Wilde

Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction. – Artemidoros

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. – John Maxwell

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. – Lucille Ball

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. – Rosa Parks

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come. – Joan Baez

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. – Diane Sawyer

All serious daring starts from within. – Eudora Welty

It takes courage to show your dream to someone else. – Erma Bombeck

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. – Helen Keller

Groan and forget it. – Jessamyn West

Life itself is the proper binge. – Julia Child

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. – Sophia Loren

It's never to late – in fiction or in life – to revise. – Nancy Thayer

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. – Francoise Sagan

We are always the same age inside. – Gertrude Stein

Don't take life too seriously; No one gets out alive. – Maxine (Hallmark character)

The moment of change is the only poem. – Adrienne Rich

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. – Gladys Taber

We are the hero of our own story. – Mary McCarthy

Earth's crammed with heaven. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

See into life–don't just look at it. – Anne Baxter

In the Primordial Age Woman Was Once the Sun! – Raicho Hiratsuka

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. – Bilie Burke

I like being unconventional. – Florence Griffith Joyner

Action is the antidote to despair. – Joan Baez

There is always something left to be loved. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. – Lorraine Hansberry

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. – Bernadette Devlin

Tears may be dried up, but the heart –never. – Marguerite De Valois

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers. – Ruth Benedict

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. – Phyllis Bottome

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. – Rita Mae Brown

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. – Anais Nin

Nothing is more revealing than movement. – Martha Graham

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. – Pamela Vaull Starr

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions. – Unknown

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. – Doris Mortman

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. – Marge Piercy

But to look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow. – Natalia Makarova

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. – Ella Fitzgerald

Once in a while, you have to take a break and visit yourself. – Audrey Giorgi

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend. – Katherine Hathaway

Only real cool people can admit mistakes. – Lauré Kendrick

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. – Julia Sorel

If you're only happy when the sun is out, you're missing half of your life. – Gloria Jones

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Sally Berger

Some leaders are born women. – Unknown

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. – Colleen Wilcox

There are no right answers to wrong questions. – Ursula LeGuin

... nothing gratifies one more than to be admired for doing what one likes. – Dorothy L. Sayers

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity. – Nancy Astor

Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words,
And never stops at all, – Emily Dickinson (complete poem)

In my friend, I find a second self. – Isabel Norton

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted. – Marie O'Conner

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller

Differences challenge assumptions. – Anne Wilson Schaef

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. – Queen Elizabeth

I decided it is better to scream ... Silence is the real crime against humanity. – Nadezhda Mandelstam

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use. – Ruth Gordon

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration. – Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Life is a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can spend it only once. – Lillian Dickson

Now lets all forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry ice cream! – Marge Simpson (cartoon character)

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. – John Wooden

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any. – Danielle Fotopoulis

The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. – Ayn Rand

Be free to not stay in the old story. – Unknown

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

If you think that something small cannot make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room. – Unknown

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength. – Carrie Ten Bloom

You'll never know until you try. – Unknown

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. – Mary Jean Irion

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. – Veronica A. Shoffstall

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. – Sandra Carey

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. – Gilda Radner

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. – Grace Hansen

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. – Rosalind Russell

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch –what make you go beyond the norm. – Cicely Tyson

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. – Simone De Beauvoir

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. – Katherine Mansfield

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams. – Ann Landers

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. – Colette

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. – Maya Angelou

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. – Margaret Mead

Real women don't have hot flashes; they have power surges!

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. – Karen Horney

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. – Katherine Mansfield

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter. – Susan M. Watkins

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. – Hazel Henderson

I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. – Emily Carr

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes! – Bette Midler

Respect ... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique. – Annie Gottlieb

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap. – George Bernard Shaw

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. – Diane Arbus

Making your unknown known is the important thing. – Georgia O'Keeffe

And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else. – Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass

To succeed in life you need three types of bones: a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. – Reba McEntire

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone. – Coco Chanel

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. – Marge Piercy

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. – Lucy Larcom

If you don't have any goals, you can't fail.– Rachael Aguirre

As I got I gave ... as I give I get. – Mary McLeod Bethune

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. – Eleanor Hamilton

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. – Grandma Moses

Total absence of humor renders life impossible. – Colette

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity. – Ruby Dee

Where there is great love there are always miracles. – Willa Cather

It’s not the disability of your body but the handicap of your mind that limits you. – Unknown

Aim at a high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming ... finally you'll hit the bulls-eye of success. – Annie Oakley

The more things change, the more they stay the same. – Alphonse Karr

The motorcycle black madonna; Two-wheeled gypsy queen. – Bob Dylan

A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium. – Mary Kay Blakely

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment [instigate] a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation. – Abigail Adams

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? – T.S. Elliot

A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind. – Chinese Proverb

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality. – Author Unknown

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. – Albert Schweitzer

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. – Anna Freud

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. – Ethel Barrymore

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. – Mary Catherine Bateson

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. – Amelia Earhart

Don't agonize. Organize. – Florynce Kennedy

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. – Sister Corita Kent

What really matters is what you do with what you have. – Shirley Lord

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. – Golda Meir

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

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman. – Helen Reddy

Never think you've seen the last of anything. – Eudora Welty

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. – William Shakespeare

I am not a has-been.  I am a will be. – Lauren Bacall

Don't live down to expectations.  Go out there and do something remarkable. – Wendy Wasserstein

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. – Unknown

Believe you can do it, act as if you can do it and in no time you will be doing it. – Unknown

Joy is the feeling of grinning inside. – Melba Colgrove

Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning. – Chinese Proverb

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional. – Unknown

Two-lane blacktop isn't a highway - it's an attitude. – Unknown

Joy is the best makeup. – Anne Lamott

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. – Louis L'Amour

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. – Barbara Jordan

... for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. – Mary Pickford

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. – Jane Wagner

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. – Isadora Duncan

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms. – Muriel Ruckeyser

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. – Marge Piercy

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance. – Tim Allen

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. – Lucy Maud Montgomery

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. – Mother Teresa

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices. – Ayn Rand

The possibility is always there. – Monica Baldwin

Giving opens the way for receiving. – Florence Scovel Shinn

Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction. – George Griggs

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

The shortest distance between new friends is a smile. – Unknown

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. – Ethel Barrymore

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. – Joyce Brothers

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe. – Harriet Martineau

You have to erect a fence and say, 'Okay, scale this.' – Linda Ronstadt

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors. – African Proverb

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. – Elizabeth Gilbert

It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts. – Ella Fitzgerald

If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will. – Unknown

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair. – Chinese Proverb

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. – Unknown

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run [ride?!] while chasing a dream. – Unknown

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. – Betty Reese

It's sexy. It is. Come on, let's face it. The idea of women bikers is sexy. – Christina Shook, author of Chicks On Bikes

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. – Jane Galvin Lewis

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. – Zen Saying

Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold. – Anonymous

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right? – Catherine O'Hara

I have never met a challenge I didn't like, because in taking on the challenge, I have grown in ways unimagined. – Petra Baer, aka VTwin Mama

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight. – Unknown

Women are Angels. And when someone breaks our wings we simply continue to fly ... on a broomstick. We are flexible ... – Unknown

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. – Ashleigh Brilliant

The longest journey a woman must take is the eighteen inches from her head to her heart. – Unknown

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager.  You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick. – Steve Bull

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. – Rita Mae Brown

Good questions outrank easy answers. – Unknown

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be. – Joy Page

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. – Liz Carpenter

When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars? – Nancy Willard

When your heart speaks, take good notes. – Judith Campbell

To ride a[n] [iron] horse is to ride the sky. – Unknown (modified)

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. – Flavia Weedn