Be inspired

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.

The 14th Dalai Lama, religious name: Tenzin Gyatso, shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso.

Strive for progress, not perfection.

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When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state

Swami Vivekananda.

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Karen Lamb is the author of Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather, which made the Queensland Literary Awards 2015 shortlist in the category of Nonfiction.

Change is the law of the universe. You can be a millionaire, or a pauper in an instant.

Bhagavad Gita

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius. Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William James was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, often referred to as simply Sadhguru, is an Indian yogi, mystic and author. He founded the Isha Foundation.