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You are as old as God and as young as the morning.
–Hilda Charlton
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
–George Bernard Shaw
Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
–Dan Millman
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
–Thomas Carlyle
Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons.
–Ann Ruth Schabaker
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
–Oprah Winfrey
"Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book and dismiss whatever insults your own soul."
—Walt Whitman
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
—Joseph Chilton Pearce
"Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside."
—Brian Tracy
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
–George Bernard Shaw
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
–Albert Einstein
When I take on a new problem, I'm not interested in how it's been done before. I only want to know, of all the constraints people tend to assume, which ones are actually fundamental and which ones are just habit?
–Jeff Bonwick, Sun Microsystems
There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.
–Clement of Alexandria
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
–Alan Cohen
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The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge.
–Siddhaswarupananda | Quotes
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
–William Adams
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
–Eleanor Roosevelt
You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
–Buckminster Fuller
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
–Jonathan Winters
The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
–Alan Cohen
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
–Harold B. Melchart
Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait... and peace will appear.
–Guy Finley
"The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy."
–Benjamin E. Mayes
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."
—Channing Pollock
"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."
—Ann Lander
"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."
—Norman Vincent Peale
"Winners are the people who when the odds are stacked against them, and those around them have fallen, will have the courage to look within themselves and make the unbelieveable believeable, and the impossible possible."
–C. Phillips
"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action."
–Henry Miller
"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
–Henry Miller
"If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive."
–Raymond Chandler (from the novel, 'Dick Tracy')
"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
—Sir Josiah Stamp
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
—Dale Carnegie
"We start, then, with nothing, pure zero. But this is not the nothing of negation. For 'not' means 'other than,' and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility — boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom."
—Charles S. Peirce
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
—Albert Einstein
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
—George Bernard Shaw
This personal compilation by Kate Loving Shenk also
includes a collection of 200 Positive Thinking quotes.
"Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is."
—Peter Shepherd
"Action is where it's at, as far as making dreams come true. We ourselves are the prime channel for our creations, so if we don't act but just wait, then we are blocking the channel. If we do act then we will be supported by all that we are connected to... which is All That Is if we act with love and service as our motivation."
—Peter Shepherd
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
—Arthur Schopenhauer
"Some men see things as they are and say, 'Why?' Others dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?' "
—George Bernard Shaw
"There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting on them."
—Dr. Wayne Dyer
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
—Deepak Chopra
"Everything is a gift of the universe - even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment."
—Ken Keyes Jr.
"Different is not necessarily better but better is always different."
—Hugh Lendrum
"Take time to work - it is the price of success
Take time to think - it is the source of power
Take time to play - it is the secret of perpetual youth
Take time to read - it is the fountain of wisdom
Take time to be friendly - it is the road to happiness
Take time to love and be loved - it is the nourishment of the soul
Take time to share - it is too short a life to be selfish
Take time to laugh - it is the music of the heart
Take time to dream - it is hitching your wagon to a star."
—anonymous
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One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.
Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
–Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"The judgment of others does not change who I am. Quite the opposite is true. It reveals who they are."
—Terry McPhearson
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character."
—Margaret Chase Smith
"Faith is a journey...not a guilt trip."
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
—Abraham Lincoln
"Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life's forthcoming attractions."
—Albert Einstein
"Of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil. For what is Good-tortured by it's own hunger and thirst? When Good is hungry, it seeks food, even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters."
—Kahlil Gibran
"To err is human; to forgive, divine."
—Alexander Pope
"Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."
—Samuel Johnson
"Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice."
—John McCain
"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them."
—Brendan Francis
"Love... if you don't have it, no matter what else you may have, it's not enough."
—Ann Lander
"A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be prisoners of their own concepts and ideas. They can be slaves to their own selves."
—Maharaji
"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well."
—Elisabeth Kubler Ross
"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."
—Oprah Winfrey
"You often meet your destiny on the road you've taken to avoid it."
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
—George Bernard Shaw
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
—Johann von Goethe
"Choose again.
Pretend that you are enlightened.
Pretend that you are loved by God.
Pretend that you are perfect just the way you are.
Take a deep breath now and PRETEND WHAT IS TRUE.
Then everything will make sense.
"When you pretend something that is true, then you immediately become that Truth.
"First the energy of God descends upon the Earth, then it pretends whatever it wants to be, then it ascends back to its source. You are God pretending to be whatever you are right now. Do you understand what this means? You have allowed yourself to descend, but by pretending to be less than what you are, you have not ascended back to God."
—Thomas (Indigo Child)
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"Love is much more fundamental than any kind of thinking or believing. It is the root and basis of who you are, at the most fundamental level. This means that anything other than love as an expression of your being is artificial and unnatural and is a result of not knowing who you are."
—Bill Harris
"Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice,
But for those who Love
Time is not."
—Henry Van Dyke
"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream."
—Virginia Woolf
"It is not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change."
—Charles Darwin
"Don't believe everything you think."
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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart."
—Helen Keller
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently."
—Nietzsche
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on."
—D.H. Lawrence
"Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open."
—Clarissa Pinkola Estes
"We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future."
—Lester Levinson
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
—Winston Churchill
"Education is nothing more, nor less, than learning to think!"
—Peter Facione
"An educated mind is useless without a focussed will and dangerous without a loving heart."
—Winfried Deijmann
"Money doesn't bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money."
—Sam Rosen
"A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed... When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic."
—Dresden James
"Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing... just expressed differently."
—Robert McPhillips
"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I'll remember. Involve me and I'll understand."
—Confucius
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
—Robert A. Heinlein
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
—Abraham Lincoln
"There's no beauty that you could perceive or create if it were not already within you..."
Peter Shepherd
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
—Oprah Winfrey
"If there is righteousness in the heart
There will be beauty in the character;
If there is beauty in the character
There will be harmony in the home;
When there is harmony in the home
There will be order in the nation;
When there is order in the nation
There will be peace in the world."
—Sai Baba
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"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
—Noam Chomsky
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."
—Alfred Korzybski
"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."
—H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
—Carl Jung
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
—R. Buckminster Fuller
"God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable."
"Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception."
—Dan Millman
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique."
—Martha Graham
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside awakes."
—Carl Gustav Jung
"No great artists ever sees things as they really are. If he did then he would cease to be an artist."
—Oscar Wilde
"We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess."
—William Arthur Ward
"Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds."
—Louise Hay
"Carefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS. Manage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS. Consider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS. Acknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES. Understand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY."
—Mahatma Gandhi
"Wisdom is knowing what path to take next... Integrity is taking it."
"Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in."
—Willis Harman
"So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that cross and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs."
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
—Reinhold Niebuhr
"We can't change the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."
—Jim Rohn
"When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always."
—Mahatma Gandhi
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
—William Jennings Bryan
"Criticism is something we can avoid easily — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
—Aristotle
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
—Mark Twain
"I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have."
—Abraham Lincoln
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."
—Melody Beattie
"We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing."
—Ralph Lauren
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it... "
—Alan Kay
"The meaning of life is to give life meaning."
—Ken Hudgins
"Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort."
—Rabbi Weinberg
"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are."
—The Talmud
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
—Mary Lou Cook
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
—Seneca
"Happiness in life is not measured by the things we achieve, the places we go, or the route that we take to get there. Happiness in life is measured by the people that we share all of our experiences with."
—Chris Needham
"We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be these things?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people around you won't feel insecure.
We are all meant to shine as children do.
We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically releases others."
—Marriane Williamson, from 'A Return to Love'.
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."
—Meister Eckhart
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"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."
—Phyllis Diller
"Once you do something you love, you never have to work again."
—Willie Hill
"A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on."
—Mark Twain
"Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow—it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it."
—Shakti Gawain
"If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world."
—Chinese Proverb
"It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
—Adler
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
—Leonardo da Vinci
"When we are no longer able to change a situation... we are challenged to change ourselves."
—Victor Frankl
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."
—Archibald McLeish
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
—Johann von Goethe
"We see things not as they are, but as we are."
—H.M. Tomlinson
"What we think is less than what we know;
What we know is less than what we love;
What we love is so much less than what there is.
And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are."
—R.D. Laing (The Politics of Experience)
"When we love, we are the universe and the universe lives in us."
—O. Pirmez
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
—Leonardo da Vinci
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
—Henry C. Link
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."
—Oscar Wilde
"Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it."
—Shakti Gawain
"Ships are safe within the harbor, but is that what ships are for?"
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"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."
—Wayne Gretzky
"Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground."
—Alan Cohen
"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself."
—H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"Don't think you are, know you are!"
—Morpheus, in the film Matrix
"When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect."
—Peace Pilgrim
"The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them."
—Lao Tzu
"You don't get in life what you want. You get what you are."
—Les Brown
"The judgement of others does not change who I am. Quite the opposite is true. It reveals who they are."
—Terry McPhearson
"You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus."
—Mark Twain
"Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment."
—Alan Cohen
"The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity."
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals."
—Deepak Chopra
"Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it."
—Shakti Gawain
"You live in illusions and the appearance of things. There is a Reality, you are that Reality. When you recognize this you will realize you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all."
—Kalu Rinpoche
"Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love."
—Lao Tseu
"If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance."
—Derek Botz
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not remains a fools for life."
—Chinese proverb
"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have run out."
—Chinese proverb
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
—Albert Einsten
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
—Carl Bard
"The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character."
—Margaret Chase Smith
"Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else."
—Nathaniel Branden
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other alternatives."
—Abba Eban
"A nation that values it's privileges above its principles soon loses both."
—Eisenhower
"A friend is a person with whom I may be honest. Before him, I may think aloud."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
—Euripedes
"Opinions founded on prejudice are always defended with the greatest violence."
—Hebrew proverb
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think."
—Adolph Hitler
"The great mass of people more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a minor one."
—Adolph Hitler
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by what he uses to frighten you."
—Eric Hoffer
"Experience is not what happens to you - it's how you interpret what happens to you."
—Aldous Huxley
"Those who make peaceful reform impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
—J. F. Kennedy
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
—Martin Luther King
"It's never too late to be what you might have been."
—George Elliot
"Life's like a movie; write your own ending, keep believing, keep pretending..."
—Jim Henson
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite."
—William Blake
"Man has no body distinct from his soul; for that called body is a portion of soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of
soul in this age."
—William Blake
"Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have
cultivated an understanding of them."
—William Blake
"I sought my God and my God I could not find. I sought my soul and my soul eluded me. I sought my brother to serve him in his need, and I found all three—my God, my soul, and thee."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
—Mark Twain
"Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you."
—Alan Cohen
"Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment."
—Tom Morris
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
—Jeremy Kitson
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."
—Abraham Maslow
"The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation."
—William James
"Intuition is not contrary to reason, but outside the province of reason."
—Carl Jung
"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."
—Helen Keller
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
—Soren Kierkegaard
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
—Henry Longfellow
"There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity."
—Douglas MacArthur
"If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful."
—C. S. Lewis
"Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way."
"It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
—Justice Robert jackson
"When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous crimes have been comitted in the name of obedience than have been comitted in the name of rebellion."
—C. P. Snow
"Do what you have always done and you'll get what you have always got."
—Sue Knight
"What is needed is not the will to believe but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
—Bertrand Russell
"I don't know if you'll succeed or fail, but I know this: you will fail if you don't try!"
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."
—Theodore Rubin
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A friend is someone who knows the song of your soul and sings it back to you when you've forgotten the words."
"Criticism is something we can avoid easily — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
—Aristotle
"The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation."
—Alan Cohen
"Everyone is qualified - and no one is qualified - to predict the future."
—phrenicea.com
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
—Albert Einstein
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
—Helen Keller
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
—Mark Twain
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
—Michaelangelo
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
—The Dalai Lama
"We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."
—T.S. Eliot
"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there is a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours."
—Noam Chomsky
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
—Charles Darwin
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
—Harold Whitman
"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."
—Les Brown
"It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."
—Claude Bernard
"The way to make learning a lesson a celebration, instead of a cause for regret, is to ask ... How can I put this to use today?"
"If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life."
—Albert Einstein
"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may bet better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge now exists to make things better."
—King Whitney Jr.
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
—Pantanjali
"Learning without thinking is labor lost; thinking without learning is perilous."
—Confucius
"The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason."
—Marya Mannes
"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
—Carl Sandburg
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
—Mother Teresa
"He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear."
—Michel de Montaigne
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1. Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
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"For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death or hardship."
—Epictetus
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that remains is a compromise."
—Robert Fritz
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
—T. S. Eliot
"Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it."
—J. Petit Senn
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
—Elbert Hubbard
"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."
—Benjamin Franklin
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."
—Hazlitt
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change - and to preserve change amid order"
—Alfred North Whitehead
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation."
—Pearl S. Buck
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
—Albert Einstein
"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know - that man is here for the sake of other men."
—Albert Einstein
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek."
—Alan Cohen
"To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions."
—Eckhart Tolle
"You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value."
—Phillip C. McGraw
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
—Albert Camus
"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."
—Raymond Hull
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"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming."
—Goethe
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
—John Lubbock
"Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?"
"When someone's character seems impossible to fathom, observe his friends."
—Japanese proverb
"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true, either is true or becomes true."
—John Lilly
"Our identity is very closely associated with our thoughts and feelings. Usually, when we feel anger, we become angry. We are anger itself. When we feel depressed, we are depression. When we feel greedy we are greed. It's easy to see ourselves in the emotional 'guise du jour' and mistake this costume for who we really are beneath it."
—Marc Gilson
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them."
—-William F. Halsey
"If you're not living on the edge... you're taking up too much room."
—African Proverb
"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims."
—Harriet Woods
"An eye for an eye will only serve to make the whole world blind."
—Mahatma Ghandi
"Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions."
—William Hazlitt
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
—Goethe
"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Was it worth it?"
"Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you."
—Pericles
"The only stupid question is one not asked."
"Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission."
—Rudolph Steiner
"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box."
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.' "
—Sydney J. Harris
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"A true friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today, just the way you are."
"Everything can be taken from a man but...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
—Viktor Frankl
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
—Albert Einstein
"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."
—Oscar Wilde
"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."
—Barbara DeAngelis
"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one."
—Anthony J. D'Angelo
"In their freedom, birds make expanding circles in the sky.
How do they learn to be free?
They fall—and by falling are given wings to fly."
—Rumi
"Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in our own."
—Adam Gordon
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
—John Milton
"The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder."
—Thomas Carlyle
"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
—Henri Poincare
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
—Carl Jung
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
—Bertrand Russell
"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."
—Leo C. Rosten
"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything."
—Samuel Johnson
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
—Mahatma Ghandi
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
—Henry Miller
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
—WolfgangMozart
"God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
—Reinhold Niebuhr
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
—George Bernard Shaw
"That which does not kill you makes you stronger."
—Neitzsche
"It's not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it's because we do not dare that they are difficult."
—Seneca
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
—Albert Einstein
"If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others."
—Dalai Lama
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
—Noam Chomsky
"Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand."
—Peart
"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
—Edmund Burke
"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
—Thomas Szasz
"My religion is simple, my religion is kindness."
—Dalai Llama
"God will become visible as God's image is reborn in you."
—St. Bernard of Clairveux
The DilemmaTo laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk rejection.
To place your dreams before a crowd is to risk ridicule.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrows, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow, or love.
Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave - he has forfeited his freedom.
Only a person who takes risks is FREE
"He who dares nothing need hope for nothing."
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs - even though checkered by failure - than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
—Theodore Roosevelt
"A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."
"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
—Aesop
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
—Maya Angelou
"The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe."
—Deepak Chopra
"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."
—George Orwell
"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present—love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure—the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth."
—Sarah Ban Breathnach
"It is never too late to become what you might have been."
—George Elliot
"I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not — more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving."
—Beverly Sills
"Real peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice"
—Film: 'Air Force One'
"Faith is like a toothbrush. Every person should have one and use it regularly, but he shouldn't try to use someone else's."
—J. G. Stipe
"As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness."
—Dalai Lama
"In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy."
—Albert Clarke
"A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help."
—Albert Schweitzer
"Don't rob a friend, a partner, family member or the world of someone that could have been a real companion, and someone that could make a difference. Don't ever give up being special!"
—Willy Conradie
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"That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession."
—Jim Morrison
"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open"
—James Dewar
"The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests."
—A.J. Nock
"The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other."
"If he is indeed wise, the teacher does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather he leads you to the threshold of your own mind."
—Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
"The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads"
"A man who does simply what is required of him will never know peace; for that, he must do all that he can."
"In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter."
—Chinese proverb
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."
—Betty Smith
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
—Carl Bard
"Destiny is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you have no control."
—Wess Roberts
"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on."
—Oprah Winfrey
"Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge."
—Kristen Stendahl
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own."
—Chinese proverb
"Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours."
—Richard Bach
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"We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place."
—Barry Neil Kaufman
"Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry."
—Barry Neil Kaufman
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
—Socrates
"Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare."
—Japanese proverb
"Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear."
—Mark Twain
"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."
—Josh Billings
"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."
—Johannes A. Gaertner
"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."
—Northrup Christiane
"The impossible is often the untried."
—Jim Goodwin
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
—Alexander Graham Bell
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
—Albert Einstein
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks."
—Will Durant
"This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
—William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
—George Bernard Shaw
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer injury to our self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their self-importance, learn so easily; and why older people, especially if vain or arrogant, cannot learn at all."
—Thomas Szasz
"When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane."
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm."
"If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid."
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
—Lao Tzu
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