You cant be everything to everyone.

You can't be everything to everyone.
- Anonymous

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare

In overreaching, one fails even in the basics.

Further reading: Aesop's Fables: The Miller, His Son, and the Ass

Positive Attitude: How to be Positive Around Negative People

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. Henry Ward Beecher

Behind that social mask is a personal truth. Phil McGraw

Inspirational Quotes Collection

Have you browsed through my collection of Inspirational Quotes lately?

Valley of Death

Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
- Joseph Addison

What is the proper balance between individual responsibility and blindly following the orders of an authority? When has the time come to say, enough is enough?

Tennyson's poem The Charge of the Light Brigade, from which the "valley of death" lines come, describes a fatal and futile 1854 cavalry charge during the forgettable Crimean War. You can read the whole poem at www.dancelightly.com/valley-death.php

Further reading: Half Reveal and Half Conceal
          

You are defined by your habits.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.
- Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of scouting)

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Benjamin Franklin

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain (humorist)

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

You are defined by your habits - choose well.

Further reading: 5 Secrets For Breaking Your Bad Habits

A time for work, a time for play - balance in all things.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
- Anne Frank

A time for work, a time for play - balance in all things.

Further reading: How to Save Money while Living Well

How to Sleep Better Tonight

Finding Balance in Life

Conscious Breathing to Relieve Stress