Do Your Best, Accept the Rest

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?
Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy
on account of most of them?
Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie

Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

Some decisions don't turn out well,
but if you did your best,
you have nothing to be ashamed of.
Never second guess your decisions.
Keep learning, keep trying,
and always do your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do your best, accept the rest.
Stop demanding joy, attention and friends.
Allow people to disregard you, it's fine.
Who you are should never depend on externalities like your image or possessions.
Every externality can fade (looks, fame, power, money, etc.)
Become ZEN!
- afcpoop on Reddit

Further reading: Let It Go - Zen

Forgive Yourself

Fear of Striking Out

How to get over regrets and resentments

Maybe So, Maybe Not. - Ancient Taoist Proverb
       

Love is the Great Miracle

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the
gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
- Brian Tracy

Love is the greatest force for good.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing - a Parable

Love: the Greatest Force for Good.

Miracles are Expressions of Love
       

Playing the Cards You're Dealt

Life consists not in holding good cards
but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings

You play the hand you're dealt.
I think the game's worthwhile.
- Christopher Reeve

All men and women are born, live, suffer and die;
what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams,
whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things,
and what we do to make them come about.
We do not choose to be born.
We do not choose our parents.
We do not choose our historical epoch,
the country of our birth,
or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing.
We do not, most of us, choose to die;
nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death.
But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
- Joseph Epstein

Customs form us all.
Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs,
are consequences of our place of birth.
- Aaron Hill
Yet within these quite extreme constraints, progress, success, and happiness are still possible.

We all have free will, but only within the harsh constraints of predestination.
Within the limits placed upon our lives by the circumstances of our genes,
our place and condition of birth, the parenting we receive, and other events beyond our control,
we are defined by the free will we can still exercise.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our circumstances define the playing field, not the outcome.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Do What You Can Do

Choose to Soar

Making Dreams Come True
      

Your Inner Guidance

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk

Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
- Rachel Corrie

Trust in yourself.
Your perceptions are often far more accurate
than you are willing to believe.
- Claudia Black

Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Confidence is Half of Victory

Uncharted Territory

The Symphony of Your Life
      

The Human Race is Our Family Circle

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

Few are the giants of the soul that actually feel
that the human race is their family circle.
- Freya Stark

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Further reading: One Human Race

Keep the Golden Rule

Each Other's Eyes

Their Point of View