Caveat: The Self-Help Industry Offers Too Many Possibilities:

Five Things We Cannot Change: 

1. Everything changes and ends.

2. Things do not always go as planned.

3. Life is not always fair.

4. Pain is part of life.

5. People are not always loving and loyal all the time.


How you feel pleasure in life is one of the key determinants of health and success.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.

There is no wealth but life. -Ruskin

The loftiest towers rise from the ground.

He who walks fastest, but walks astray is only farthest from his way.

Take it easy.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you.  All things pass.  God does not change.  Patience achieves everything.  - Mother Teresa

Iron rusts from disuse and  water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.  - Lao Tzu

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and putting one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing.  

- Goethe

All improvement in memory consists of one's habitual method of recording facts. - Wm. James

Do not wait; the time will never be "just right".  Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. - Napoleon Hill 

Refine your longings and discontents into a single powerful purpose.

Things don't get better by chance, they get better by change.

Find your effective self.

A ship is safe in the harbor but that is not what ships were made for.

Get outside your comfort zone.

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as you go along.

Adaptability is the master skill.