“This is our moment. This is our time – to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American Dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth – that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope, and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can.”

- President-Elect Barack Obama

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And, by the same artist who made the “Yes, We Can” video, here’s his latest, entitled, “It’s a New Day”:

Make your peace with that and all will be well.”

- The Buddha

and I like this one, too:

I hope his words inspire my kids (and not just when they play basketball).

When you’re feeling down, just remember that sometimes you need to fail in order to succeed. When you screw up or even just stumble a bit, you need to pick yourself up, put yourself back out there and keep trying. Our mistakes help us learn and make us grow. Or, more accurately, it’s the lessons from the mistakes.

I think we need to keep learning and growing all our lives. And hey, if that’s true, the sooner we stop beating ourselves up for mistakes we’ve made and view them as opportunities to learn the better off we’ll be.

Oh, and just in case you don’t know Michael Jordan, read this.

Yeah…I miss seeing him play.

“Be kind. Work hard. Follow your instincts and listen to your inner voice.”

-Eric Carle

“It’s a choice you can make: to have joy, to find joy and to spread joy.”

-Natalie Portman

“BlackBerries and e-mail aren’t inherently bad. It’s just like medicine: it’s the dose that makes the poison.”

- Timothy Ferriss

“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”

-C.G. Jung

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”

-Martha Graham

“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast–you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”

-Eddie Cantor

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

-Joseph Chilton Pearce

“We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.”

-Ernesto Cardenal

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”

-Henry David Thoreau

“Nobody sees a flower–really–it is so small it takes time–we haven’t time–and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

-Georgia O’Keefe