One of my role models...
 

"Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

~attributed to Joan Clarke - The Imitation Game

"Chase her. Chase her even when she’s already yours. That’s the only way you’ll be assured to never lose her."

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

~Les Brown

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent," ~ Sophia Loren.

"Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering."

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

~Idries Shah

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

Theodore Isaac Rubin