Coffee Thoughts \ Get a Goal

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”-Albert Einstein

Goals inspire us to keep going. They help us focus on what’s important.

Coffee Thoughts \ Be in the Moment

 “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” Lao Tzu

Teach yourself to stay present. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Don't Give Up

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”-Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Edison never gave up, that’s why he is still one of our most famous inventors. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Be Happy

“If you want to be happy, be.”-Leo Tolstoy

Happiness comes from within. So if you’re miserable, you’re supporting that emotion.

Coffee Thoughts \ Don't Put Off What's Important

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”-Pablo Picasso

It’s important to know what’s important and take care of it. 

Coffee Thoughts \ You Are More Than Who You Think You Are

“It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”-J. K Rowling

What you choose is where you go and what you become. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Begin

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” -Anthony Robbins

Don’t complain if you won’t take the risk. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Happiness Is Giving

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When you have the power to make someone happy, it’s a gift that keeps on giving. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Make It Happen

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”-Leonardo Da Vinci

You make life happen. Stop waiting for your luck to kick in. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Be Careful What You Choose as Your Goals

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure… but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”-Francis Chan

It’s important to choose your challenges and not let them choose you. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Love Changes You

“Love is a serious mental disease.”-Plato

It certainly feels that way at time. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Challenges Make You Strong

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”-Joshua J. Marine

Think of it this way, would you want to watch a movie without conflict? 

Coffee Thoughts \ Smile

“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”-Mother Theresa

A smile welcomes you. 

Coffee Thoughts \ We All Need Friends

“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”-Abraham Lincoln

We all need support. If you want it give it. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Love Yourself First

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”-Lucille Ball

If you don’t love yourself it will be difficult to attract it. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Make An Effort

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”-Theodore Roosevelt

You’ll seldom regret trying to do something unless it makes you give up. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Narcissism Is Not Attractive

“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” -Benjamin Franklin

When you’re self-consumed you’re not very interesting. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Make Mistakes & Learn

You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”-Thomas J. Watson

When you discover what isn’t working you see the path to success. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Be There in Good Times & Bad

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’tdeserve me at my best.”-Marilyn Monroe

A good relationship is there for both the good and the bad. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Love Is Better Than a Dream

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”-Dr. Suess

What a beautiful way to look at love. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Pay Attention

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” -John Lennon

Be in the moment and you’ll live an amazing life. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Use Your Power

“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” -Audre Lorde

The more you feel in charge of your life, the less you have to prove and the more you can just be. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Let Go Have Faith

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”-Helen Keller

Move forward and don’t look back.

Coffee Thoughts \ Give Up Pleasing

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”-Herbert Bayard Swope

There is nothing that takes you away from your soul and destiny than the need to please.

Coffee Thoughts \ Take a Leap of Faith

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”-Mark Twain

Experience opens up the mind and heart. Leap into life without fear. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Be Good to Your Friends

“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. ” -William Shakespeare

When you have a good friend take care of them, they are the gold of life. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Learn From Your Mistakes

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.”-John F. Kennedy

Every great man and women agrees -- failure is the best teacher. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Use What's Available To Be Successful

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”-David Brinkley

Take what you have and make it into something useful. That’s genius. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Focus on Ideas.

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”-Eleanor Roosevelt

Lift your mind above gossip and events and contemplate why you’re here and what life is all about. 

Coffee Thoughts \ Truth

     Truth never damages a cause that is just” Mahatma Gandhi 

   Truth doesn't divide, people do.