MANDY'S COLLECTION OF INSPIRATION

2011-08-16T20:29:00.000-07:00

Beware of artists, they mix with every class of society and therefore are most dangerous.
~Queen Victoria

When you work hard and earn it, there’s no need to apologize for being awesome.
~Karma Schopp

It's your responsibility to make it, not someone else's. ~Bob Lefsetz

So what did YOU do today to further your dream? If you haven't taken a step towards the thing you are most passionate about, it's not too late. Better to start in the evening than not at all, because "A year from now you will have wished you started today."

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. ~Chinese proverb

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will. ~Dr. Robert Anthony

Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. -Steve Jobs

You have to think anyway, so why not think big. ~Donald Trump

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. -Unknown

Use Old Spice and become the CEO of every major corporation in the world. The two things are completely unrelated. But they don’t smell like they are. ~Old Spice

Those who achieve great things, defeat long odds, and become legends, didn't have anything you don't have. They just kept showing up. ~Mike Dooley

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. ~Nido Qubein

Whether people tune in or not doesn't change my best efforts or the quality of what I do, because when you make something for the sake of putting good out into the universe, the payback comes from a much more fulfilling place than any man-made form of payment. -Kat Von D

Big shots are little shots that keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley

There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before its manifestation and then joyously watch the unfolding as, piece by piece by piece, it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay. ~Abraham Hicks

Time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition: they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ~Steve Jobs

Your business is a reflection of how you manage your energy. ~Rachel Flower

If you're interested in achieving success, you'll do what's convenient. When you are committed, you'll do whatever it takes. ~John Assaraf

You are meant to succeed, and failure should feel bad to you. Life is supposed to go well for you—and when it does not—there is something wrong. But what is wrong is not something that is outside of you over which you have no control. What is wrong is within you, and you do have control. ~Abraham-Hicks

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you. ~ Marilyn Monroe

Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road of mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm gonna do it. It's done. The second I decide it's done, it's done. ~ Will Smith

The successful warrior is the average person with laser-like focus. ~ Bruce Lee

Niceness is always the enemy of art. If you worry about what the neighbors, critics, parents, and supposedly pure-minded censors think, you will never create a work that defies the restrictions of the conscious mind and delves into the world of dreams. ~ Erica Jong

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. ~ Muhammed Ali

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ~ John F. Kennedy

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. ~ Larry McMurtry

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. ~ Napoleon Hill

I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. ~ Haruki Murakami

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ~ Albert Einstein

There's no reason to have a Plan B because it distracts from Plan A. ~ Will Smith

You must become the producer, director, and actor in the unfolding story of your life. ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you. ~ Million Dollar Baby

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. ~ Allen Ginsberg

How you do anything is how you do everything. ~ Derek Sivers

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. ~ Thomas Jefferson

You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. ~ Steve Jobs

Always be yourself...unless you suck. ~ Joss Whedon

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening any more. ~ Florence Griffith Joyner

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. ~ Paul Gauguin

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them. ~ Marilyn Monroe

You don't get it by staring. You don't get it by wishing. You don't get it by drooling. You don't get it by hoping. You don't get it easy. You get it by getting off your ass and working for it; every second of every day for the rest of your life.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. ~ Margaret Young

Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls. ~ Melody Beattie

The heights by great men reached and kept,
were not attained by sudden flight,
but they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. ~ Shakti Gawain

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking it's stupid. ~ Albert Einstein

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. ~ Albert Schweitzer

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. ~ Cadet Maxim

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do. ~ Unknown

There are two ways to get everyone to hate you. Either do something really wrong, or do something really right. ~ Unknown

Whatever you should be doing with your Life, you've been doing it your whole Life. ~ Dr. Loretta Standley

It is better to be a company than to work for a company. ~ Jim Coudal

Ask advice only of your equals. ~ Danish Proverb

Go ahead and tell me my dreams are unrealistic, and I’ll tell you yours aren’t big enough. ~ Unknown

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. ~ Fulton J. Sheen

If I waste a minute, I waste an hour. If I waste and hour, I waste a day. If I waste a day, I waste a lifetime. ~ Unknown

The person that's standing on top of the mountain didn't just fall there.

It is not who you are that holds you back. It's who you think you're not. ~ Unknown

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~ Bruce Barton

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ~ Mark Twain

People will always say you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own. ~ Angelina Jolie

Those who say it can't be done are either the ones who have never tried or who have never succeeded. ~ Satish Thawani

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. ~ Nora Roberts

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ~ Proust

The day I was born, songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can. ~ Steve Jobs

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves. ~ Lao Tzu

When you're doing what you're meant to do, you benefit the world in a unique and irreplaceable way. This brings money, friendship, true love, inner peace, and everything else worth having. ~ Martha Beck

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams

I no longer have bad days. I only have good days and great days. ~ Lance Armstrong

Anyone can do what I do if they are willing to do what I do. ~ Jack LaLanne

I didn't mean to be a role model. I just speak my truth. I guess speaking from your heart really creates a huge impact, and if I can encourage people to do that, then I would love to be a role model. If I could encourage people to use their voices loudly, then that's my reward. ~ Margaret Cho

I meet people who want to be in the spotlight, but have no idea what they would say if it was pointed at them. It means we want the record contract more than the satisfaction of making music. The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. ~ Marianne Williamson

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. ~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

YAY! It's a new day and the start of a brand new year! May you free yourself from your past, your pain, your guilt, your fears and your regrets. Forgive yourself for all you believe you've done wrong, because honey let me tell ya, we're all on the same boat. We're all just trying to do our best with the light we have to see by. So be gentle with yourself. It's time to let go, move on, and be free ♥

Expressing who and what you are at any given moment is healing as well as productive. Open up and allow others to see your Medicine. In that way, you are offering a gift to others who may have need of your talents. Don't deny how you feel, what you think, or what you can offer the world. ~ Sacred Path Cards by Jamie Sams

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education; to accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun; to accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. ~ Epictetus

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. ~ James Allen

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. ~ Buddha

The more you do, the more I can do for you. Don't worry that your baby steps are small, mine cross continents. And don't worry when you can't yet see what I'm doing...soon everyone will. Look out world. ~ The Universe

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

It is one thing to climb a mountain. It is quite another to look great doing it.

The superior man seeks what's right, the inferior one, what is profitable. ~ Confucius

Be bold. You never build something great by doing it the same way that other people have done it. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available to you now. ~ Eckhart Tolle

We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

If people are trying to pull you down, be proud of it. It only confirms that you are already above them.

The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is honouring the small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. ~ Mike Tyson

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. ~ Robert Fritz

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression. ~ Margaret Sanger

If you have a back up plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

Anything you could ever want or be, you already have and are. ~ David Russell

Approval neither desired nor required. My maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in me that I don't see in myself. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

She was conscious that the things she did, were the things she had always wanted to do. -Zelda Fitzgerald

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MANDY'S COLLECTION OF INSPIRATION