You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.

Maya Angelou

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Shopenhauer

“A place is not a place until people have been born in it, have grown up in it, known it, died in it. … Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.”

Wallace Stegner

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Hamlet, I:5
William Shakespeare

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions – the hero and the sidekick.

~ Laurence Shames