3. Seeing what others don’t have keeps me awake to all the good things I do have. It prevents me from taking things for granted and, even more importantly, helps me make a difference in the lives of people who really need me.

8. Apple computers ad “Think Different.”

9. If you follow the crowd, the place you will most likely end up at is the exit.

10. To live a richer, more rewarding life, it is essential that you run your own race. Stop bending to the demands of social pressure at the expense of your uniqueness. When you study the lives of the world’s most enlightened and effective people, you will see that they did not care about what other people thought of them. Rather than letting public opinion dictate their actions, they had the courage to let their hearts drive them. And in taking the road less travelled, they found success beyond their wildest dreams.

11. Christopher Morley : “Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking, It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

12. Emerson : “ It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

14. Best memories come from life’s simplest things.

15. Dale Carnegie : “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

19. Who cares what others think when you know that what you are doing is the right thing to do.

21. The people who know the most, who have achieved the most and who have lived the most are also the people closest to the ground. In a word, they are humble.

23. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

24. The heights by great men reached and kept

25. Were not attained by sudden flight

26. But they, while their companions slept,

27. Were toiling upward in the night.

28. Take a Public Speaking Course

31. Wake Up and Live!

32. The Business of Living a Long Time

34. Do not wait until you are on your deathbed to realize the meaning of life and the precious role you have to play within it.

35. They spend their days striving to get the things that will make them happy rather than having the wisdom to realize that happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create.

36. George Bernard Shaw: This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a true force of Nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and, as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It’s a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.