food for thought: on personal development

• “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle
  
  
• “Am I becoming someone I respect?” – Margaret Wheatley
  
  
• “You cannot move on to a different track unless you realize that you have gone far enough on the present one. If you don’t know what enough is, in material or achievement terms, you are trapped in a rut of your own devising and will never learn what might be outside that rut.” – Charles Handy
  
  
• “I shall tell you a great secret, my friend: Do no wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.” – Albert Camus
  
  
• “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
  Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
  
  
• “The key to success in wall walks of life is picturing or visualizing the exact, precise way you want an event to go.” – Dr. Charles Garfield
  
  
• “Love all, trust few, do wrong to none." – William Shakespeare
  
  
• “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." – Anais Nin
  
  
• “Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “The most exhausting thing in my life is being insincere.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  
  
• “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you become polished?” – Rumi
  
  
• “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." – Carl Sandburg
  
  
• “If you want to be happy, be." – Leo Tolstoy
  
  
• “David was there in the marble all the time. All I did was release him.” – Michelangelo
  
  
• “If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.” - August (the beekeeper), in The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
  
  
• “The only real aging process is the erosion of our ideas.” – Albert Schweitzer
  
  
• “All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.” – Albert Einstein