Encouragement, Inspiration and More…

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert intergrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.  — Cecil Beaton

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even third place.  — Cicero

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once she grows up.  — Pablo Picasso

The lion in the jungle makes every other animal sit up and take notice as soon as he lets out a roar.  He didn’t get that way through artificial paraphernalia or through springs and wires and trick dumbbells.   He became the King of the jungle through constant use of every muscle in his body.  — Charles Atlas

As you battle for strength and courage and healing, remember:  there are people all around you cheering you on and waiting to lend you a hand.  — Kathryn T. Shaw

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at eighty and gradually approach eighteen.  — Mark Twain

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.  — Unknown

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.  — Robert H. Schuller

Because there is always more in you!

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.  — Alice Walker