Jessi

"Character contributes to beauty.
It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage,
discipline, fortitude and integrity
can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."
- Jaqueline Bisset
"Often we can achieve an even better result
when we stumble yet are willing to start over,
when we don't give up after a mistake,
when something doesn't come easily
but we throw ourselves into trying,
when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness,
we may reap more from our effort because
we’re more likely to be changed by it.
We learn and grow and are transformed
not so much by what we do but
by why and how we do it."
- Sharon Salzberg
"By starving emotions we become
humorless, rigid and stereotyped;
by repressing them we become
literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou;
encouraged, they perfume life;
discouraged, they poison it."
- Joseph Collins
"Our lives are not determined
by what happens to us,
but by how we react to what happens.
Not by what life brings to us,
but by the attitude we bring to life.
A positive attitude
causes a chain reaction of
positive thoughts, events, and outcomes.
It is a catalyst,
a spark that creates extraordinary results."
"You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
Fools stand on their island of opportunities
and look toward another land.
There is no other land;
there is no other life but this."
- Henry David Thoreau