Words for My Soul

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
-Arthur Rubinstein

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.”
-W. Clement Stone (1902-2002); author, businessman

“I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time – just one, one, one. So you begin. I began – I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn’t pick up that one person, I wouldn’t have picked up forty-two thousand….The [...]

“Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.”
-George Santayana (1863-1952); philosopher, poet

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
-Marie Curie (1867-1934), chemist, physicist, Nobel Prize winner

“Dream your dream. Follow your heart. Imagine. Listen to the wind. Drink sunsets. Be free. Let the wonder never cease. Believe. Wish on EVERY star. Create adventure. Be Kind.”
-Debbie Coulter

“If you’re trying to achieve, there will be road blocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
-Michael Jordan (b. 1963), retired professional basketball [...]

“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.”
-Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944), writer, social activist

“Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.”
-Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), philosopher

“Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.”
- Judith Stone