As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
— Rodney Yee

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
-– Leo Rosten

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.
— Rikki Rogers

When a man disciplines his diet and diversions, his physical actions, his sleeping and waking, discipline destroys his sorrow.
— The Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita records this teaching as a conversation between Krisha and Arjuna right before a great battle. It has been interpreted many different ways. What does it mean to you?

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Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.
— T. Alan Armstrong

We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.
— Max DePree

Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
— B.K.S. Iyengar

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.
— Anne Lamott

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
— William James

People too weak to follow their own dreams will always try to find a way to discourage yours.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
— Howard Thurman

The best time to do something is between yesterday and tomorrow.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.

— Richard Bach

Stop saying, “I wish.” Start saying, “I will.”

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
— Maxwell Maltz