Inspiration

Marilyn’s favorite quotes:

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it..
-Goethe

To be happy, you first have to fall in love with your work..
-Sister Mary Lauretta

To change one’s life: Start immediately Do it flamboyantly No exceptions.
-William James

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look at the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
-George Bernard Shaw

Two men look out through the same bars; one sees the mud and one the stars.
-Frederick Langbridge

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubts, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal – and soonthey’ll forget my number.
-Edith Armstrong

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where all the fruit is?
-Frank Scully

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
-Ruth Ann Schabacker

If you rest, you rust..
-Helen Hayes

If it’s sagging, bagging, tagging or dragging, I’m going to have it fixed.
-Dolly Parton

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
-Havelock Ellis

Blessed is he who has found his work.
-Thomas Carlyle

Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.
-Suze Orman

He who has begun is half done.
-Horace

The person who moves a mountain begins by carrying small stones.
-Chinese Proverb

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
-Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

Anythin’ for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.
-Charles Dickens 1812-1870 (Pickwick Papers)

The ship was cheered, the harbor cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill
Below the lighthouse top.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1722-1834 (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)

If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
-Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Don’t agonize. Organize.
-Florynce Kennedy

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
-A.A. Milne

We need time to ream,
Time to remember
And time to reach the infinite
Time to be.
-Gladys Taber (1899-1980)

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
-Bertrand Russell 1872-1970

To become a happy person, have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace,
A child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.
-Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)