#ten

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cannot #captain #collaborated #directed #extent

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#failed #failure #great #question #whether

Your Potential is an OBLIGATION.Its what you MUST be,do and have because you CAN. You Can, you Must, You will ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#leadership #potential #inspirational

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ↗

— May Sarton

#frightening #however #may #ourselves #prove

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#contentment #dissatisfaction #life #perception #positivity

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel." (Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953) ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#content #privacy #refueling #reprive #restoration

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#self-actualization #unrealized-potential #life

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#goals #happiness #life #satisfaction #life

Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#contentment #curiosity #doubt #envy #foes

The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain. ↗

— Tim Scott

#because #black #black community #called #community