"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life."
- Golda Meir

"I slept & dreamt that life was joy. I awoke & saw that life was service. I acted & behold, service was joy." 
- Rabindranath Tagore

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for."
- Joseph Addison

"You can acquire a lot in life if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it."
- Bruce Lee

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Don't go through life, grow through life."
- Eric Butterworth

"Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will." 
- Vernon Howard 

Happy 93rd Birthday, Mr. Mandela!

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
 - Nelson Mandela

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-Thoreau

"Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up."
-Cory Booker

As it is the month I tested for my black belt, May's quotes will be martial in nature. Enjoy!

"When you look at life, think in terms of karate. But remember karate is not only karate - it is life."
-Gichin Funakoshi

Congratulations to Mireille ("Going My Way" Blogger) and my good friend Tyrone G. (of "Bunny Slippers Are Evil" fame) who recently graded for - and received - their black belts :-)

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
- William James

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in your life, you will have been all of these."
- George Washington Carver

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
-Confucius