Quotes and Poems for Life

“The older I get, the more I feel / almost beautiful…”

“No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.”

“It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly… ‘I trust you; do what you must,’ life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.”

“Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self respect springs.”

“The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.”

“Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.”

“Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it – what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.”

“I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.”

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man–with human flesh.”

“They say dreams are the windows of the soul–take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.”