"The next time you start having a bad day, stop everything and notice what you've been thinking.  Bring yourself into the present moment. Touch the fabric of your clothing.  Run your hand over a smooth surface. Breathe fully.  Choose one thing to be grateful for.  This simple process normalizes blood pressure, heart rate and breathing - and will turn a bad day into a good one."

Dr. Christiane Northrup

"If you seek love, appreciation, and affection, then learn to give love, appreciation, and affection." 

DEEPAK CHOPRA

She taught us that life is a constant choice.  Every day you have to get up and make a choice.  Will you choose light or darkness? Will you choose to reach out or draw in?  Choose to speak out or shut up?  Will you be paralyzed by your past and your failures or will you forgive yourself enough to be unchained?  History despite its wrenching pain need not be lived again.

President Bill Clinton quoting from Maya Angelou at her memorial service

"For every selfie, do an act of selflessness."

From speaker at 2014 graduation at Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

Voltaire
1694-1778, Writer, Historian, and Philosopher

"Your dream is a reality that is waiting for you to materialize. Today is a new day! Don't let your history interfere with your destiny. Learn from your past so that it can empower your present and propel you to greatness."

Steve Maraboli
Author and Speaker

"I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough."

Red Skelton
1913-1997, Comedian

"Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more."

 Lou Vickery,Writer

"Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made."

Robert Schuller

"When you know that you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer."

Harry Browne

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Whatever you want to do, do it now.  There are only so many tomorrows."

Michael Landon, Actor best known for "Bonanza" and "Little House on the Prairie"

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
William Feather

For Olympians everwhere:

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

Margaret Thatcher