#1456 You can ride it

Surrender to what is.
Let go of what was.
Have faith in what will be.  ~ Sonia Ricotti

I will surrender to the moment today.  ~Karen Casey

Change is the essence of life.  Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.  ~ Reinhold Niebuhr

Love conquers all things; let us surrender to love.  ~ Virgil

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.  ~ Toni Morrison

Quotes about surrender

- To what could you surrender to enrich your life?

#1455 Meeting of hearts

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.  ~Jeffrey Fry

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?  ~ Seneca

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?  ~ James Allen

Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, 'Why am I doing this?'  It comes down to passion.  ~ Lyn St. James

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?  ~ Gandhi

Quotes about why

- What motivates you to live with energy and purpose?

#1454 Dance in the rain

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.  ~ Winston Churchill

To be tested is good.  The challenged life may be the best therapist.  ~ Gail Sheehy

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.  ~ Sidney Greenberg

There are two ways of meeting difficulties.  You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.  ~ Phyllis Bottome

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.  It's about learning how to dance in  the rain.  ~ Vivian  Greene

Quotes about rising above

- What difficulty/challenge could you rise above?

#1453 Prepare the umbrella

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.   ~Joe Paterno

It's better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.  ~ Jacki Joyner-Kersey

I will study and prepare and one day my chance will come.  ~ Abraham Lincoln

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.  ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prepare the umbrella before it rains. ~ Malay proverb

Quotes about preparing, preparation

- Where might some focused preparation enrich your life?

#1452 The drama of life

Words may be false and full of art; sighs are the natural language of the heart.  ~ Thomas Shadwell

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs.  ~ William  Shakespeare

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,'  I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'  ~ Sydney J. Harris

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.  ~Theodore Roethke

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.  ~ Minna Antrim

Quotes about sighs

- Which of your sighs could be lengthened into songs?

#1451 To crown one's efforts

Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.  ~ Winston Churchill

Success will never be a big step in the future; success is a small step taken just now.  ~ Jonatan Martenson

If at first you don't succeed, try something harder.  ~ Ann Landers

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.  ~ Jim Valvano

These three things – work, will, success – fill human existence. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy, work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.   ~Louis Pasteur

Quotes about success, succeeding

- What project is worthy of your best efforts to enrich yourself and others?

#1450 Refiner's fire

I am half agony, half hope.  ~ Jane Austin

Organize, don't agonize.  ~ Nancy Pelosi

There is not greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.  ~ Maya Angelou

Acting is happy agony.  ~ John Paul Sartre

In the pain, the agony, and heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross, and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.  ~ James E. Faust

Quotes about agony

- What agony may have shaped you to be stronger?