::Quotes of the week::

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” – George Harrison

“God gave us the gift of live; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” – Voltaire

“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.” – Audrey Hepburn

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

“And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!” – Audrey Hepburn

“A woman has the age she deserves.” – Coco Chanel

“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Sir Winston Churchill

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising, which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” – Author unknown

“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one expended effort that might have saved the world.” – Jane Addams

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Sometimes the only way to discover who we are, is by figuring out who we are not.” – Anonymous

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

“There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.” – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.” – Mark Twain

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” – Thomas Szasz

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

“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” – Benjamin Franklin

“One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” -Cormac McCarthy

“Do not dwell in the past, do you dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” -Buddha

“When you forgive, you in no way change the past, but you sure do change the future.” -Bernard Meltzer

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping-stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space” – Johnny Cash