Michelle Novello

http://michellenovello.com/

When we practice loving kindness and
compassion we are the first ones to profit.
— Rumi

See the job. Do the job. Stay out of the misery.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
— Henry James

You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.
— Rumi

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do ti with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
— Emerson

We can either have what we want or the reasons why we can’t.
— Alberto Villoldo, in Courageous Dreaming

At bottom, love is all that matters.
— Picasso

Let us spend one day as deliberately as nature and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails.
— Thoreau

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
— Winston Churchill

It’s one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To err is human, to forgive divine.
— Alexander Pope

Everything stinks till it’s finished.
— Dr. Seuss

Know, O Chief, that nothing is evil until one makes it so by thinking of it as such.
— Tyabji

All things are ready if our minds be so.
— Shakespeare

Who can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you.
— Shakespeare

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
— Plutarch

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
— Rumi

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
— Einstein

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIVING A LIFE: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it!
— Mary Oliver

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
— Lincoln

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
— Amelia Earhart

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
— Henry Boyle

There is a thick crust to be broken before I can give my heart to anything; a stubborn ground that resists the attacks of the plough and hoe. But with a little perseverance, the hardness suddenly gives and it becomes so rich in fruit that I am quite unable to gather them all.
— Delacroix