Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. -Richard Bach

If you're afraid to die, you will not be able to live. -James Baldwin

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage. -Alain

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. -Lee Iacocca

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has even been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover will be yourself. -Alan Alda

Truth is not always popular, but it is always right. -Unknown

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind. -Zig Ziglar

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. -Lao-tse

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -Alexander Graham Bell

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. -Indian Proverb

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be-because sooner or later, if you're posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you? -Fanny Brice

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. -Sir Cecil Beaton

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -Seneca

Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space, it's up to you to fill it. -Unknown

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. -Ursula K. Le Guin

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -Mahatma Gandhi

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Our perception of reality is from an improved consciousness that has been elevated by a vision. Robert R. Toth

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. -Buddha (B.C.E. 568-488)

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. -F. M. Hubbard

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding thru the ruts. Don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts. Put your vision to reality, Yeah! -BOB MARLEY "from the song Wake up and Live"

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. -M. Scott Peck

Remember the four R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions, and Reality. -Unknown

It's hard to face reality when reality has many faces. -Tony Follari Comedian

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

The truth is more important than the facts. -Frank Lloyd Wright

There is no such thing as a man willing to be honest that would be like a blind man willing to see. -F. Scott Fitzgerald