Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
- Mary Lou Retton (Olympian/gold medalist at 1984 Summer Games)
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
- Peggy Fleming (Olympian/gold medalist in figure skating in 1968)
Life loves the liver of it.
- Maya Angelou
God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
- Bob Marley
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
- Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
- Aristotle