Compleat Strategist Quotes & Sayings

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them. — Rami M. Shapiro

The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes. — Maya Angelou

Perfume is the soul of the flower, and sea-flowers have no soul. — Jules Verne

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. — Miguel De Cervantes

Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. — Earl Nightingale

You have a right not to be negative. — Maurice Nicoll

It was a woman. Hanging upside down. — Lucian Bane

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it — Patty Sheehan

He doesn't tell the snow to that and become tain, or the rain to freeze itself into snow. He says, essentially: do your thing. Do the thing that you love to do, that you've been created to do. — Shauna Niequist

I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars. — Maggie Stiefvater