Things to Think About

"Leave your front door and back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea" Shunryu Suzuki on how to avoid anxiety and stop negative thoughts.

"Twenty 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 safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover." Mark Twain

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"My optimism is like an old cat that likes to disappear for days, but I always expect it to return." Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert

"If you can't fly, you run; if you can't run, you walk; and if you can't walk, you crawl. But no matter what, you keep moving forward." Martin Luther King

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." Booker T. Washington

“To be authentic literally means to be your own author.” (Greek root Autos meaning self) “Leaders learn from others, but are not made by others.” Warren Bennis

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” J.D. Salinger in Catcher in the Rye

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” Cecilia Flatum