If it does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all

“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” - Anna Quindlen

 “I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.” - Mary Oliver

“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” - Arnold Palmer 

  

I Was Here

 You will notice me
I'll be leaving my mark like initials carved in an old oak tree
You wait and see
Maybe I'll write like Twain wrote
Maybe I'll paint like Van Gogh
Cure the common cold
I don't know but I'm ready start cause I know in my heart

I wanna do something that matters
Say something different
Something that sets the whole world on its ear
I wanna do something better
With the time I've been given
And I wanna try
To touch a few hearts in this life
Leave nothing less
Than something that says "I was here"

I will prove you wrong
If you think I'm all talk, you're in for a shock
Cause this dream's too strong

 

Maybe I'll compose symphonies,
Maybe I'll fight for world peace
Cause I know it's my destiny
To leave more than a trace of myself in this place

 I wanna do something that matters
Say something different
Something that sets the whole world on its ear
I wanna do something better
With the time I've been given
And I wanna try
To touch a few hearts in this life
Leave nothing less
Than something that says "I was here"

And I know that I will do more than just pass through this life
I'll leave nothing less than something that says "I was here"

Live Life Fearlessly

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.  Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

 "I have lots of things to prove to myself.  

One is that I can live my life fearlessly.”

“There is nothing you can buy, achieve, own, or rent 

that can fill up that hunger inside for a sense of fulfillment and wonder.”

“You will never find time for anything. You must make it.”  

Love, Love Changes Everything

“Love, love changes everything; Hands and faces, earth and sky. 

Love, love changes everything; How you live and how you die."

 "If you don't fail now and again, 

it's a sign you're playing it safe."

"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

Say What You've Got To Say & Say It Hot

“Be still when you have nothing to say; 

when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say and say it hot.”

 

“Life’s battles don’t always go to the strongest or fastest man, 

But sooner or later the man who wins is the fellow who thinks he can.”  

 “Luck? I don't know anything about luck. 
 I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. 

Luck to me is something else:  
Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.”