"Measure your success not by the outcomes you achieve,  but by the actions you take." Zeta Yarwood

From article:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-most-harmful-thoughts-stopping-your-success-zeta-yarwood-

Dreams- by João Biehl from "Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment"

“dreams help us to understand the fears we have. A nightmare can also be a desire. If one doesn’t study what one has dreamed, then the dreams stay in the life that was dreamed. And, as one returns to life, one keeps thinking that everything is normal.”

Biehl, João (2013-05-01). Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (p. 86). University of California Press. Kindle Edition.

From Qibin Ye (friend&fellowAmeriCorps)

Commencement Address by Naval Admiral William H McRaven

At University of Texas:

Commencement Address

Highlights:
"#8- If you want to change the world. You must be your very best at the darkest moment"
"#9- If you want to change the world, start singing when you are up to your neck in mud"
          because "one person can change the world by giving people hope."

Graduation Commencement Speech by John Legend

Commencement Address

Pedro Arrupe, SJ

"Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in Love, stay in love, and it will decide everything." 

Inspiration from a collective email project.

By Mother Teresa

By Me

My AmeriCorps / Community HealthCorps Service

♥ it

Do Happy

"Happiness is a moment to moment choice [...] it is about how you interpret what's in front of you"

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/7-reasons-to-be-happy-even-if-things-aren’t-perfect-now/

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/do-happy-interpret-differently/

"Now Just A Muggle, With Song and Dance" - Daniel Radcliffe

“When I’m 30-something and got kids or whatever, 

I probably will want to take it a bit slower,

but this is the part of my life where I have to be as busy as I can.” 

Article from the New York Times online:
Now Just A Muggle, With Song and Dance"- Daniel Radcliffe

One's Own Project - By Me

"Patience is the key of threading, 

for the start of success is the value of one's own knowledge 

not the view of the greater mass"

John Dorian from Scrubs

"I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. 

Because the truth is, every time you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it."

From Gossip Girls

"Sometimes

you need to stand outside to clear your head 

and remind yourself of who you are, 

and sometimes

you have to venture outside your own world 

to find out who you are."

Pastor Alice Tam, from Grace Faith Church

"When there's a 

Will there's a Way"

By Ms DiRico my High School English Teacher

"You are great people. don't let the world change you.

you can grow. you can improve. but dont ever change the person u r. there is a difference, and ppl often get confused about wat it really means wen ppl say 'don't change who u r.' "

Abraham Maslow's Theory for Happiness

"We fall short of ourselves because society don't let us go further."

"10 Tips for College Students" - Steve Pavlina

"Many times what we assume to be impossible just isn’t. We only think it is."

- By Steve Pavlina

Article: 10 Tips for College Students

"How to become More Successful" Article by Steve Pavlina

“If you hate wealthy and successful people, you’ll never be one of them because you won’t allow yourself to become something you hate...Can you see that if you harbor ill feelings toward the top performers in your field, you’ll never become a top performer yourself?”

Taken from How to become More Successful

Ryan (e-mailed from Japan)

"It's always best to live life to its fullest. You've been working so hard every year all the time, so don't worry if you rot a bit....When we went to a Zen Buddhist temple, they stressed the importance of taking time away from your day, and just think of nothing. Concentrate on your breathing, the world around you, and just appreciate that you can be alive to witness all that."

*some parts of this quote has been taken out due to friends names and well being.