“If what you see by the eye doesn’t please you, then close your eyes and see from the heart. Because the heart can see beauty and love more than the eyes can ever wonder.” – Unknown

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1. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

2. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

3. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

4. “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” – George Eliot

5. “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – George Eliot

6. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

7. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney

8. “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

9. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” – Seneca

10. “Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

11. “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” – Albert Einstein

12. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

13. “The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It’s then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives.” – Unknown

14. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

15. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

16. “When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.” – H. Jackson Brown

17. “Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want” – Richard Koch

18. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

19. “Confidence comes not from always being right but not fearing to be wrong” – Brian White

20. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

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“Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.” – William Feather

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1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

- “About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” – Manolo Blahnik

- “Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.” – James Earl Jones

- “All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.” – Walt Disney

- “All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.” – Max Beerbohm

- “All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I’ve gone off the top, into total fantasy.” – Eddie Campbell

- “All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.” – Carl Jung

- “Although it is a fantasy film, it’s as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.” – Orlando Bloom

- “Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant H. McGill

- “And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You’ll note there’s no science in it. It’s a kind of grim fantasy.” – Octavia Butler

- “And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.” – Peter Shaffer

- “Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.” – Godfried Danneels

- “Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.” – Joan D. Vinge

- “But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation.” – Fisher Stevens

- “But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.” – Iris Murdoch

- “But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.” – Shelley Duvall

- “But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.” – Elizabeth Moon

- “But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.” – Octavia Butler

- “CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” – Arthur C. Clarke

- “Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.” – Joseph Barbera

- “Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience – to see something that’s not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it’s like their lives.” – Erika Slezak

- “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug.” – Mark Twain

- “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

- “The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.” – Rogers Hornsby

- “The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.” – German Proverb

- “The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.” – Nellie Hershey Tullis

- “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” – George Will

- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

- “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” – Sarah Brown

- “The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.” – Thomas Holcroft

- “We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.” – Cicero

- “Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.” – Euripides

- “They can because they think they can.” – Virgil

- “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

- “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger

- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

- “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright

- “A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.” – Elbert Hubbard

- “There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley

- “The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis

- “The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.” – Owen Feltham

- “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” – Dennis Waitley

- “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi

- “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope

- “Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.” – Josh Billings

- “The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Earl of Beaconsfield

- “Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” – Evan Esar

- “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

- “If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.” – Jospeph Addison

- “Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin

- “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.” – Henry W. Longfellow

- “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.” – Shakespeare

- “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.” – Albert Einstein

- “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields

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- “The hair is the richest ornament of women.” – Martin Luther

- “Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.” – Shana Alexander

- “Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.” – Unknown

- “It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.” – George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860

- “What’s the matter with you guys? The sight of blonde hair knocks you three rungs down on the evolutionary ladder.” – From the television show Civil Wars

- “The great ages of prose are the ages in which men shave. The great ages of poetry are those in which they allow their beards to grow.” – Robert Lynd

- “Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” – Kahlil Gibran

- “I’m not offended by all the dumb-blonde jokes because I know that I’m not dumb. I also know I’m not blonde.” – Dolly Parton

- “It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.” – Raymond Chandler

- “Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.” – Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985

- “Babies haven’t any hair:
Old men’s heads are just as bare;
From the cradle to the grave
Lies a haircut and a shave.” – Samuel Goodman Hoffenstein

- “Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.” – Sam Ewing

- “Women…. Who made ‘em? God must have been a… genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?” – Bo Goldman, “The Start of an Education”, made popular by the movie Scent of a Woman

- “When red headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.” – Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

- “Those curious locks so aptly twin’d,
Whose every hair a soul doth bind.” – Thomas Carew

- “If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?” – Lily Tomlin

- “Long, beautiful, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen… I adore hair!” – James Rado and Gerome Ragni, Hair

- “Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.” – Fran Lebowitz

- “Beauty draws us with a single hair.” – Alexander Pope

- “Gentlemen prefer blondes… but gentlemen marry brunettes.” – Anita Loos