Quick Note

Got this from a Facebook status of a friend and wanted to make a quick note of it.


Every situation in life has only two solutions.. one: accept and two: change.
1. Accept what you can't change and,
2. Change what you can't accept.


Some more:


Whether you think you can, or whether you think you can't, you are right. 
- Henry Ford


I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. 
- Oprah Winfrey


What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.  
-Goethe


The purpose of life is a life with purpose. 
- Robert Byrne
( I must have wasted countless hours in my undergrad wondering about the purpose of life, and reading books after books to get at that answer. The above statement is such a simple and profoundly meaningful answer to all those questions...)


To begin with you must know what drives you. Simply because not knowing will mean that you can never begin to satisfy yourself. What does money mean for someone who hungers for love? 
- Napoleon Hill


Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life...and not something you do in your spare time. 
- Marian Wright Edelman 


Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but though fidelity to a worthy purpose. 
- Helen Keller


Man cannot discover oceans, until he has courage to lose sight of the shore.
-Christopher Columbus


To find yourself, think for yourself. 
-Anon


Learn your lessons quickly, and move on. 
-Anon


Your pain is the breaking of a shell that encloses your understanding.
-Anon


To live, is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 
-Oscar Wilde


There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. 
- Napoleon Hill


Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. 
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


The problem is not that there are problems.  The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.  
-Theodore Rubin


The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting out aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
-Michelangelo


Aim for the moon, that way, even if you miss you'll still be amongst the stars! 
-W. Clement Stone