Life

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations…!” - George Bernard Shaw -

Positive thoughts

"Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience." - Eddie Rickenbacker -

Dreamers vs skeptics or cynics

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy -

Make the circumstances you want

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw -

Experience

"I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes." - Omar Bradley -

Power within you

"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs." - Dr. Maxwell Maltz, 1899-1975, Author -

Footprints

The footprints you leave behind show clearly where you have been.

Yet they do not dictate where you can now go.

Perhaps your life up to now has been difficult and filled with disappointment.

Or perhaps it has been easy and filled with good fortune.

None of that matters when it comes to the choices now available to you.

At this moment in time, you can go in any direction you choose.

You can learn much by looking at how you arrived at where you are.

Now that you're here, you can benefit from what you've learned and experienced.

Now that you've been through your past, you have a much better idea of where you truly want to go.

Look back at the footprints you've left behind, and decide where the next footprints will lead.

At this very moment, your possibilities stretch out in countless directions, yet your next step must be in one specific direction.

You have the choice to make right now, so choose the very best.

- Ralph Marston -