- Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Don Miguel Ruiz
- “Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.” ― Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
- “Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth.” ― Avis J. Williams
- “To deliver your own personal maximum, you’ll realise there are no shortcuts; if you want to be a champion it is all about rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.” ― Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
- Those who complain are not wise. Maxime Lagacé
- You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with. Nikki Rowe
- A man who is going to live forever, has risks and consequences. A man who is going to die, has none. Kapil Gupta
- “The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.” ― Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
- Die in your thoughts every morning and you will no longer fear death. Yamamoto Tsunetomo (Hagakure, Book of the Samurai, Amazon book)
- “Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.” ― Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
- You are a story that you tell yourself. Naval Ravikant
- Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes, as well. Seneca
- “We are all teachers, we all have knowledge and experiences that can teach others.” ― Avis J. Williams
- “Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth.” ― Avis J. Williams
- “Be yourself and become wealthy!” ― Stephen Richards
- One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world. (Fake) Buddha (See also: real Buddha quotes)
- “Invest your energy in the things you can control.” ― Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
- “Don’t believe everything you are told, if it resonates within you, then listen and act.” ― Avis J. Williams
- “My dearest friend Abigail, These probably could be the last words I write to you and I may not live long enough to see your response but I truly have lived long enough to live forever in the hearts of my friends. I thought a lot about what I should write to you. I thought of giving you blessings and wishes for things of great value to happen to you in future; I thought of appreciating you for being the way you are; I thought to give sweet and lovely compliments for everything about you; I thought to write something in praise of your poems and prose; and I thought of extending my gratitude for being one of the very few sincerest friends I have ever had. But that is what all friends do and they only qualify to remain as a part of the bunch of our loosely connected memories and that’s not what I can choose to be, I cannot choose to be lost somewhere in your memories. So I thought of something through which I hope you will remember me for a very long time. I decided to share some part of my story, of what led me here, the part we both have had in common. A past, which changed us and our perception of the world. A past, which shaped our future into an unknown yet exciting opportunity to revisit the lost thoughts and to break free from the libido of our lost dreams. A past, which questioned our whole past. My dear, when the moment of my past struck me, in its highest demonised form, I felt dead, like a dead-man walking in flesh without a soul, who had no reason to live any more. I no longer saw any meaning of life but then I saw no reason to die as well. I travelled to far away lands, running away from friends, family and everyone else and I confined myself to my thoughts, to my feelings and to myself. Hours, days, weeks and months passed and I waited for a moment of magic to happen, a turn of destiny, but nothing happened, nothing ever happens. I waited and I counted each moment of it, thinking about every moment of my life, the good and the bad ones. I then saw how powerful yet weak, bright yet dark, beautiful yet ugly, joyous yet grievous; is a one single moment. One moment makes the difference. Just a one moment. Such appears to be the extreme and undisputed power of a single moment. We live in a world of appearance, Abigail, where the reality lies beyond the appearances, and this is also only what appears to be such powerful when in actuality it is not. I realised that the power of the moment is not in the moment itself. The power, actually, is in us. Every single one of us has the power to make and shape our own moments. It is us who by feeling joyful, celebrate for a moment of success; and it is also us who by feeling saddened, cry and mourn over our losses. I, with all my heart and mind, now embrace this power which lies within us. I wish life offers you more time to make use of this power. Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.Take care!Love,Francis.Title: Letter to AbigailScene: “Death-bed”Chapter: The Road To Awe” ― Huseyn Raza
- Life is all about ‘not knowing’ and then doing something anyway. All of life is like this. All of it. Mark Manson
- Think good thoughts. Speak good words. Take good actions. Three steps that will bring more to you than you can ever imagine. Rhonda Byrne (See also: good quotes)
- Even small acts of compassion bring meaning and purpose to our lives. 14th Dalai Lama
- “The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window–is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.” ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
- “If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.” ― Steve Backley, The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
- Live simply so that others may simply live. bell hooks
- “Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be.” ― Avis J. Williams
- “That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.” ― Albert Pike
- “When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.” ― Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear
- In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. Abraham Maslow
- If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. Kurt Lewin