"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit."
Christopher McCandless
Delivered: August 9, 2023
"If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers."
Robert Downey, Jr.
Delivered: August 10, 2023
"Without a song, each day would be a century."
Mahalia Jackson
Delivered: August 20, 2023
"True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you."
Julia Roberts
Delivered: August 2, 2023
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau
Delivered: August 30, 2023
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
Helen Keller
Delivered: September 1, 2023
"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."
Norman Vincent Peale
Delivered: August 13, 2023
"The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team."
Jocko Willink
Delivered: August 21, 2023
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."
Ulysses S. Grant
Delivered: August 6, 2023
"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."
Jack Kerouac
Delivered: August 7, 2023
"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
Sylvia Plath
Delivered: August 14, 2023
"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Washington Irving
Delivered: August 18, 2023
"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man."
Morgan Freeman
Delivered: August 5, 2023
"That's the secret to happiness. Find something you can make money at that you really love to do."
Leslie Jordan
Delivered: August 29, 2023
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt
Delivered: August 31, 2023
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
Abraham Lincoln
Delivered: August 27, 2023
"I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it."
Kanye West
Delivered: August 28, 2023
"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."
Erma Bombeck
Delivered: August 17, 2023
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain
Delivered: August 25, 2023
"Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes."
Virgil Abloh
Delivered: August 15, 2023
"I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill."
Post Malone
Delivered: August 8, 2023
"It's hard to be what you can't see."
Jason Reynolds
Delivered: August 16, 2023
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anais Nin
Delivered: August 23, 2023
"People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to rock it - because obviously, God wants you here."
Kendrick Lamar
Delivered: August 3, 2023
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
Ansel Adams
Delivered: August 11, 2023
"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."
Elbert Hubbard
Delivered: August 4, 2023
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
e. e. cummings
Delivered: August 22, 2023
"No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment."
Lucy Larcom
Delivered: August 24, 2023
"I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."
Maya Angelou
Delivered: August 26, 2023
"You fake something until you're good at it."
Al Yankovic
Delivered: August 12, 2023
"Wherever you are - be all there."
Jim Elliot
Delivered: August 19, 2023