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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy?
A Course in Miracles
If you knew who walks beside you on this path that you have chosen, fear would be impossible.
A Course in Miracles
Look lovingly at the present, for it holds the only things that are forever true.
A Course in Miracles
No one is where he is by accident, and chance plays no part in God’s plan.
A Course in Miracles
Spirit is in a state of grace forever. Your reality is only spirit. Therefore you are in a state of grace forever.
A Course in Miracles
There is no such thing as an idle thought. All thought creates form on some level. Every thought leads to either love or fear.
A Course in Miracles
When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing.
A Course in Miracles
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
Edward Abbey
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
Edward Abbey
You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Edward Abbey
If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
Aboriginal Activists Group, Queensland
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Marcel Achard
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
Chinua Achebe
Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.
Dianne Ackerman
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams
There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.
Brian Adams
Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.
George M. Adams
Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
George M. Adams
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
George M. Adams
If it’s free, it’s advice, if you pay for it, it’s counseling; if you can use either one, it’s a miracle.
Jack Adams
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams
Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.
Patch Adams
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they’re needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment.
Sarah Flower Adams
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Scott Adams
Action indeed is the sole medium of expressing for ethics.
Jane Addams
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.
Jane Addams
The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep, a mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation. Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen... as the whispering beat repeats: be...gin, be...gin, be...gin. It's really that simple. Just begin... again.
Royce Addington
There is a well of infinity hidden within each Soul. There you will find an incredible energy source, beyond your broadest understanding. It is Light and Healing. The Force of Nature. The essence of Love.
Royce Addington
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
Joseph Addison
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
The chief danger in life is that you take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be.
Morris Adler
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
As you begin to pay attention to your own stories and what they say about you, you will enter into the exciting process of becoming, as you should be, the author of your own life, the creator of your own possibilities.
Mandy Aftel
Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
Astrid Alauda
Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
Astrid Alauda
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mitch Albom
There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.
Madeleine K. Albright
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
There are two kinds of writers: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
Brian Aldiss
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Mohammad Ali
It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, it's the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali
Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it.
Charles Allen
A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.
Fred Allen
All that man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
James Allen
Failures are steps in the ladder of success.
James Allen
The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
James Allen
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
James Allen
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
James Allen
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the hearts and cools the sting.
Peter Allen
The future you see is the future you get.
Robert G. Allen
The truth is that everything that can be accomplished by showing a person when he’s wrong, ten times as much can be accomplished by showing him where he is right. The reason we don’t do it so often is that it’s more fun to throw a rock through a window than to put in a pane of glass.
Robert T. Allen
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
I am thankful for laughter except when milk comes out my nose.
Woody Allen
When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.
Woody Allen
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.
Isabel Allende
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no 'I'll start tomorrow.' Tomorrow is a disease.
V. L. Allineare
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
Michael Altshuler
People will be most creative when they feel motivated primarily by the interest, enjoyment, satisfaction and challenge of the work itself.
Teresa M. Amabile
If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.
Henri Amiel
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
Amma
Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
Gillian Anderson
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Greg Anderson
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Greg Anderson
You were born to greatness. Having a life mission implies that that world has need of you. In fact, the world has been preparing you to fill this need with one incredible life experience after another. Finding and fulfilling your potential will lead you to your highest experience in this life. Believe it, you have a mission. It is the gateway to your personal greatness.
Greg Anderson
Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.
Mac Anderson
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
Walter Anderson
Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual... It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.
Ted Andrews
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.
Ethel Perry Andrus
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
Maya Angelou
I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
Maya Angelou
I believe talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
Maya Angelou
I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
Maya Angelou
I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as making a ’life.’
Maya Angelou
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
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Maya Angelou
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
Maya Angelou
If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘good morning’ at total strangers.
Maya Angelou
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou
To make a difference is not a matter of accident, a matter of casual occurrence of the tides. People choose to make a difference.
Maya Angelou
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what the color.
Maya Angelou
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has done through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness…all the good things.
Maya Angelou
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
Kofi Annan
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh
Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours.
Dr. Robert Anthony
Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.
Robert Anthony
Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Susan B. Anthony
Come to the edge. We can’t. We’re afraid. Come to the edge. We can’t. We’ll fall! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it is the function of the ego of every human being.
Silvano Arieti
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
Aristotle
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Life is not about getting through the storms, but about dancing in the rain.
Bunny Armstrong
Fear is priceless education.
Lance Armstrong
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
Lance Armstrong
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.
Lance Armstrong
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Louis Armstrong
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Arniel
The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.
Angeles Arrien
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary wings.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Mary Kay Ash
When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
Mary Kay Ash
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
Isaac Asimov
Self education is, I firmy believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov
Without forgiveness life is governed by…an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Roberto Assagioli
Death is like the rumble of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. Auden
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
W.H. Auden
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
Aughey
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures.
David Augsberger
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Marcus Aurelius
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it.
Paul Auster
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and we must set off that spark in one another.
Kenny Ausubel
…play produces feelings of pleasure which help you escape from two major creativity killers – stress and self-consciousness.
Jordan Ayan
Creative individuals place a high value on fun because it enables them to soar in their other pursuits.
Jordan Ayan
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You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.
Sai Baba
Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy!
Babaji
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
Roger Babson
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Richard Bach
Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach
Here is the test to find whether or not your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn’t.
Richard Bach
In order to win, you must expect to win.
Richard Bach
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.
Richard Bach
An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, however, suffer for it.
Richard Bach
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.
Richard Bach
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Richard Bach
A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of.
Burt Bacharach
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.
Sudie Back
Dancing is the body made poetic.
Ernst Bacon
Knowledge is like waters; some descend from the heavens, some spring from the earth. For all knowledge proceeds from a twofold source-either from divine inspiration or external sense.
Francis Bacon
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis Bacon
Mortals must do what they are here to do creatively or they will become cranky.
Jill Badonsky
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. But you can decide how you’re going to live now.
Joan Baez
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
You must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey
Start wherever you are and start small.
Rita Baily
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
Christina Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
James Baldwin
I’m not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so, in a sense, it is all about potential.
Steve Ballmer (Microsoft)
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Joy is your birthright.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
The authentic self is soul made visible.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
If you have entrepreneurial dreams, you have to live it and breathe it. You have to treat the idea like a baby, like your child. You don't sleep when you have a new baby. I didn't sleep. I didn't have weekends. I worked nonstop.
Tyra Banks
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!
Joel Barker
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
Chester Barnard
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
P. T. Barnum
Without promotion something terrible happens…nothing!
P. T. Barnum
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
J.M. Barrie
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
J.M. Barrie
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
J.M. Barrie
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
Dave Barry
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh - at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed.
Bernard M. Baruch
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
If everyone thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
George Barzan
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Bascaglia
You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
Lucinda Basset
If it’s not fun, you’re not doing it right.
Bob Basso
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
A dog is one of the reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
O. A. Battista
Genius is childhood recovered at will.
Charles Baudelaire
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
Chas Baudelaire
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are... Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
R.J. Baughan
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
Lyman Frank Baum
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum
You don’t get ulcers from what you eat, you get them from what’s eating you.
Vicki Baum
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Sir Cecil Beaton
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 out of the past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls.
Melody Beattie
We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today…if you don’t have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won’t start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude…Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals.
Melody Beattie
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone De Beauvoir
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
Martha Beck
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Don’t look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.
Michael Beckwith
If you are not living in joy, you are out of integrity with your soul.
Michael Beckwith
Pain pushes until vision pulls.
Michael Beckwith
Problems can only exist if they have your attention.
Michael Beckwith
Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.
Michael Beckwith
We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities of the past millennium are quickly giving way to breakthrough technologies wherein we heal ourselves at the level of all true healing, which is spirit.
Michael Beckwith
No one else can speak the words on your lips. Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
Natasha Bedingfield
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.
Henry Ward Beecher
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against me.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher
Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
Henry Ward Beecher
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's were I'll always love you, Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.
Tinker Bell
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow
Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death.
Betty Bender
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis
Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis
Anyone who doesn’t believe in miracles is not a realist.
David Ben-Gurion
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Bo Bennett
Dreams are logs that feed the fire of our souls.
Marcela Bennett
Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.
Warren Bennis
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Sally Ber
Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernhard Berenson
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
There is no greater joy than that of feeline oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri Bergson
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri Bergson
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
To understand is to perceive patterns.
Isaiah Berlin
Whoever wants to understand much must play much.
Gottfried Bern
Courage – fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night.
Thomas Berry
It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
Wendell Berry
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
Annie Besant
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art, rather than a science.
Bruno Bettelheim
We have only this moment, sparking like a star in our hand…and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
Marie Beynon
You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.
Benazir Bhutto
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
Ecclesiastes 3:1,2,4
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 13:2
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 14:27
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:32
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Leviticus 19:18
Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.
Luke 6:37
Whatsover things ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Mark 11:24
Anything is possible if a person believes.
Mark 9:23
Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door shall be opened.
Matthew 7:7
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
Proverbs 23:7
Be still and know I AM God.
Psalm 46:10
Burn brightly without burning out.
Richard Biggs
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Josephine Billings
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
Laurence Binyon
A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly, but a laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows and bubbles all around.
Carolyn Birmingham
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Claudia Black
Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.
Marsha Blackburn
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake
A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
Smiley Blanton
To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.
Smiley Blanton
The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Robert Bloch
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
Lawrence Block
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
Orlando Bloom
Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum
The greatest gift you can give yourself is joy, not only because of the feeling that goes with it at the moment, but because of the magnificent experience it will draw to you. It will produce wonders in your life.
Jack Boland
Before you can do something that you’ve never done before, you have to imagine it’s possible.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
I think that whenever soul is present, it’s because what you’re doing, whom you’re with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Syncronistic meetings are like mirrors that reflect something of ourselves. If we want to grow spiritually, all we have to do is take a good look. Synchronicity holds the promise that if we want to change inside, the patterns of our external life will change as well.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of time. Time that moves us so that we lose our sense of time; timeless time; moments at which the clocks seems to stop; feeding, renewing, more motherly time. It’s the time with which we feel one instead of outside of it, the self, the tao, the love that connects us to others.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck
Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck
My kids refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced on TV.
Erma Bombeck
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, How good or how bad am I? That's where courage comes in.
Erma Louise Bombeck
The pain of discipline is far less than the pain of regret.
Sarah Bombell
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I’m here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it.
Dietrich Bondoeffer
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
Margaret Bonnano
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.
Margaret Bonnano
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
Corrie Ten Boom
The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
J. Allen Boone
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I only lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Elayne Boosler
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Jorge Luis Borges
You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland
While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance.
Hans Bos
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
Nadia Boulanger
They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Christian Bovee
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You cannot try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury
I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
Ray Bradbury
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.
Ray Bradbury
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
Ray Bradbury
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
Dorothea Brande
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
Gayle Brandeis
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
Anthony Brandt
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.
Robert Brault
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
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
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson
Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
Andre Breton
The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.
Rob Brezsny
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
William Bridges
A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.
Richard Briers
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Be kind to unkind people - they need it most!
Ashleigh Brilliant
Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.
Ashleigh Brilliant
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
His heart was like a sensitive plant that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
Anne Bronte
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Charlotte Bronte
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death, but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
It is brave to be involved.
Gwendolyn Brooks
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
Phillips Brooks
When people don’t believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.
Pierce Brosnan
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
Charles Brower
Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins—not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown
Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown
Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you.
Les Brown
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Les Brown
Live out of your imagination instead of your memory.
Les Brown
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Les Brown
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.+
Les Brown
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Rita Mae Brown
I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain.
Rita Mae Brown
All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
Sir Thomas Brown
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.
Sir Thomas Brown
Play keeps us fit physically and mentally.
Stuart Brown
You would think that those who are always talking about family values would want to create an environment of permanent relationships for people of the same sex. But they’re not advocating family values. They’re advocating their values.
Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco
Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Robert Browning
Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
Robert Browning
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God.
Lenny Bruce
The self must know stillness before it can discover its true song.
Ralph Brum
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
Everything in life is based on daring.
Martin Buber
Play is the exultation of the possible.
Martin Buber
The best things in life aren’t things.
Art Buchwald
I am comforted by life’s stability, by earth’s unchageableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Pearl S. Buck
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck
I love people. I love my family, my children…but inside myself is a place I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck
Love dies only when growth stops.
Pearl S. Buck
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next.
Pearl S. Buck
I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
Pat Buckley
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Buddha
Delight in mediation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
Buddha
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Buddha
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
Doubt everything. Find your own light.
Buddha
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
Buddha
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
Buddha
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Buddha
He is able who thinks he is able.
Buddha
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all being in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Buddha
In compassion lies the world’s true strength.
Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha
Love yourself and be awake today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, then teach others, and so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked you must first do the harder thing--straighten yourself. You are the only master. Who else? Subdue yourself and discover your master.
Buddha
May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.
Buddha
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
Buddha
Meditation brings wisdom – lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Buddha
No one saves us by but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.
Buddha
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha
The greatest prayer is patience.
Buddha
The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.
Buddha
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.
Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha
To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
Buddha
To keep the body in good health is a duty – otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
Buddha
Truths cannot be acquired from words out of other people’s mouths. Before Truths can be internalized, they must come from one’s own realizations and practices. Through a lifetime of personal practice, human beings are capable of revealing all of the secrets of the cosmic essence. You are your own best judge.
Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
Buddha
We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.
Buddha
What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.
Buddha
You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.
Buddha
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
Buddha
Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.
Buddha
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl W. Buechner
God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
Jimmy Buffett
All spiritual growth takes place by leaps and bounds, both in the individual and, as here, in the community. The crisis is to be regarded as a nexus of growth.
Jacob Burckhardt
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness…Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
Jacob Burckhardt
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke
All that is necessary for evil to succeed it that good men do nothing,
Edmund Burke
To innovate is not to reform.
Edmund Burke
When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let it go.
Carol Burnett
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism…confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
David K. Burns
Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
David M. Burns
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
George Burns
Life is but a day at most.
Robert Burns
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
John Burroughs
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
John Burroughs
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all—that has been my religion.
John Burroughs
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs
The secret to happiness is something to do.
John Burroughs
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
John Burroughs
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
William S. Burroughs
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
Ellen Burstyn
To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.
Andre B. Buruch
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia
Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
Leo Buscaglia
The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
Leo Buscaglia
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo Buscaglia
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
Leo Buscaglia
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time…It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don`t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
Leo Buscaglia
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Leo Buscaglia
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia
I have opinions of my own—strong opinions—but I don’t always agree with them.
George W. Bush
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
Nolan Bushnell
Optimism is the foundation of courage.
Nicholas Murray Butler
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Octavia Butler
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
Samuel Butler
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
Samuel Butler
The first step to being creative is to get rid of your own unwritten rules.
Mary M. Byers
To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
Steven Covey
The Secret’s message is to empower people. Its message releases people from feeling like victims and gives them the knowledge to intentionally create their lives the way they want.
Rhonda Byrne
Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith. I truly had no idea how I was going to bring the knowledge of The Secret onto the movie screen. I just held to the outcome of the vision, I saw the outcome clearly in my mind, I felt it with all my might, and everything that we needed to create The Secret came to us.
Rhonda Byrne
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron
Grief should be the instructor of the wise. Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest.
Lord Byron
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron
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Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.
Eileen Caddy
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Eileen Caddy
Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.
Eileen Caddy
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Eileen Caddy
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Eileen Caddy
When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose; what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.
Eileen Caddy
Art is whatever you can get away with.
John Cage
We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
Mona Caird
Ask yourself this question: Will this matter a year from now?
Richard Carlson
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
Dom Helder Camara
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.
Julia Cameron
Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
Julia Cameron
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
Julia Cameron
Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm – from the Greek, filled with God’ – is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself.
Julia Cameron
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Julia Cameron
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
Julia Cameron
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
Julia Cameron
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
Julia Cameron
Leap and the net will appear.
Julia Cameron
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
Julia Cameron
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
Julia Cameron
Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.
Julia Cameron
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Julia Cameron
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough – that we should try again.
Julia Cameron
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Julia Cameron
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron
The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.
Julia Cameron
We don’t always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail…We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.
Julia Cameron
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron
Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.
Julia Cameron
Every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness. Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed.
Joseph Campbell
I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the result of invisible hands coming all the time—namely that if you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you.
Joseph Campbell
I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no shuch thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell lwants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.
Joseph Campbell
If you are to advance, all fixed ideas must go.
Joseph Campbell
If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.
Joseph Campbell
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.
Joseph Campbell
When your heart speaks, take good notes.
Judith Campbell
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
Thomas Campbell
In the midst of winter, I finally learned – that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
In the midst of winter, I finally learned – that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
To grow old is to move from passion to compassion.
Albert Camus
We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.
Albert Camus
Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
Jack Canfield
There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart.
Elizabeth J. Canham
Love absolutely everything that ever happens in your life.
Paul Cantalupo
Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good.
Lucia Capacchione
Play has been man’s most useful preoccupation.
Frank Caplan
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
Truman Capote
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
Al Capp
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Frank Capra
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
George Carlin
The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
George Carlin
Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.
Richard Carlson
If someone throws you the ball, you don’t have to catch it.
Richard Carlson
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
Blessed is he who has found his work.
Thomas Carlyle
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
The age of miracles is here.
Thomas Carlyle
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
Amy Carmichael
All creative people are kids at heart. You’ve got to play – do stuff that’s definitely not work to get off the linear approach to creative work. I keep yo-yos in my office and I play solitaire on my computer.
Steve Carmichael
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
A smile is nature's best antidote for discouragement. It brings rest to the weary, sunshine to those who are frowning, and hope to those who are hopeless and defeated. A smile is so valuable that it can't be bought, begged, borrowed, or taken away against your will. You have to be willing to give a smile away before it can do anyone else any good. So if someone is too tired or grumpy to flash you a smile, let him have one of yours anyway. Nobody needs a smile as much as the person who has none to give.
Dale Carnegie
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie
We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.
Dale Carnegie
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
Liz Carpenter
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss. The only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
Caleb Carr
All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.
Michael Carr
Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.
Lewis Carroll
Begin at the beginning and go on ‘til you come to the end then stop.
Lewis Carroll
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.
Ramona C. Carroll
Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Johnny Carson
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds most grow.
Rachel Carson
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
Rachel Carson
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson
Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Elizabeth Carter
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
Hodding Carter, Jr.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach out children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When well we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals
It takes courage for people to listen to their own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn’t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
Pablo Casals
You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
M. Kathleen Casey
It only takes one person to change your life - you.
Ruth Casey
Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable…but most of all, it’s having those loved ones.
Johnny Cash
Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Carlos Castaneda
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.
Carlos Castaneda
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
We have to laugh because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.
Rosario Castellanos
A child’s attitude toward everything is an artist’s attitude.
Willa Cather
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
Willa Cather
Where there is great love there are miracles.
Willa Cather
The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.
Charlotte-Catherine
Be not afraid because you have faltered anywhere. For He has said, I forgive, even as you forgive others. Then how forgiving are you? Answer this, and you will know just how you have been forgivien. It is the law, it is the Lord, it is love.
Edgar Cayce
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce
Let thy light shine, then, in dark places.
Edgar Cayce
The spirit is life. The mind is the builder. The physical is the result.
Edgar Cayce
Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than the will of an individual.... Do not attempt to be guided by, but use the astrological influences as the means to meet or to overcome the faults and failures, or to minimize the faults and to magnify the virtues in self.
Edgar Cayce
Believe there are no limits but the sky.
Cervantes
Make hay while the sun shines.
Cervantes
Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.
Allen K. Chalmers
If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.
Oswald Chambers
Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy, stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe’s way of knocking on your mind’s door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good! The message is that you are happy, and that means that you are in touch with your purpose.
Steve Chandler
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow by conflict.
William E. Channing
Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into man may regenerate him.
William E. Channing
All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart.
Suzanne Chapin
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin
What is soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light up a room.
Ray Charles
Take what you have and make what you want.
Hilda Charlton
You’re never fully dressed without a smile.
Martin Charnin
Life is all about timing…the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable…attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It’s all about timing.
Stacey Charter
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person – beguiled, enchanted.
Mary Ellen Chase
Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time.
Deborah Chaskin
Si, se puede! (Yes, we are able!)
Cesar Chavez
To see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Stephen Chbosky
We accept the love we think we deserve.
Stephen Chbosky
Do not underestimate your ability.
Geshe Chekawa
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
Cher
Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.
Cher
Teach them how to fly.
Dan Chesbro
There is only God. There is only good.
Dan Chesbro
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
Henry Chester
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
G.K. Chesterton
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
G.K. Chesterton
I do not believe in fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in fate that falls on them unless they act.
G.K. Chesterton
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G.K. Chesterton
The true object of all human life is play.
G.K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
G.K. Chesterton
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
G.K. Chesterton
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
Do not carry the burden of the past; do not live in the future. The only important thing is that one lives in the present authentically and fully. Whatever your current life is, be the most you can be by living in the moment.
Chan Chih
Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Julia Child
Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.
Julia Child
Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.
Doc Childre
Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
Alice Childress
He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.
I Ching
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold onto.
Tao Te Ching
Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
Tao Te Ching
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
Pema Chodron
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
Pema Chodron
It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now…with its aches and its pleasures…is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
Pema Chodron
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
Pema Chodron
Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we’re going to be more cheerful in the future, it’s because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.
Pema Chodron
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
Pema Chodron
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
Pema Chodron
We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
Pema Chodron
When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.
Pema Chodron
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
Norm Chomsky
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.
Deepak Chopra
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
However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the ‘right’ person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.
Deepak Chopra
Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.
Deepak Chopra
Just as a small matchstick can set a huge forest on fire, so does a desire light up the fires of manifestation.
Deepak Chopra
Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do
Deepak Chopra
Know that you have a center. Know that you belong there. Know that the path to the center takes no effort.
Deepak Chopra
Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.
Deepak Chopra
Live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and you connect with the field of infinate possibilities.
Deepak Chopra
Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.
Deepak Chopra
Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.
Deepak Chopra
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
Deepak Chopra
We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile.
Deepak Chopra
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
Deepak Chopra
The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.
Sonia Choquette
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.
Sonia Choquette
Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.
Agatha Christie
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together – and they call the result intuition.
Agatha Christie
With synchronicity, all the resources we need are made available for us at the precise moment that is appropriate. The people who come into our lives are the ones we need at that moment in time. Everything is perfect. We only need to recognize this to tune into the flow. Everything happens for a reason and every experience is a learning experience.
Alex Chua
Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.
Chuang Tzu
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill
I like to learn, but I don’t like to be taught.
Winston Churchill
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
Never, never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
Winston Churchill
The maxim ‘Nothing but perfection’ may be spelled ‘Paralysis’.
Winston Churchill
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
These are great days.
Winston Churchill
Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing.
Cicero
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Cicero
Gratitude is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all others.
Cicero
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
Cicero
Life is nothing without friendship.
Cicero
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Cicero
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book.
Cicero
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
Cicero
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
Tom Clancy
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
Tom Clancy
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably does not lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
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
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
James Freeman Clarke
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese
Laughter is the best creative medicine.
John Cleese
Each of us possesses a creative self. Claiming that is a transformational art. When you begin to act on your creativity,what you find inside may be more valuable than what you produce for the external world. The ultimate creative act is to express what is most authentic and individual about you.
Eileen M. Clegg
I really think that anyone who’s fortunate enough to live to be over fifty years old should take some time, even if it’s just a couple of weekends, to sit down and write the story of your life, even if it’s only twenty pages, and even if it’s only for your children and grandchildren…You’ll be surprised what you find.
Bill Clinton
We each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Once you understand that everything you’re doing is based on stars aligning, then you really don’t take it for granted.
George Clooney
The only rule is that there are no rules.
Del Close
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.
Paulo Coelho
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
Paulo Coelho
Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move.
Paulo Coelho
You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.
Paulo Coelho
When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.
Nancy Coey
Envy is the art of counting another's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin
A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.
Alan Cohen
Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.
Alan Cohen
All that is good belongs to you. Release anything unlike love.
Alan Cohen
Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.
Alan Cohen
Dance on the edge of mystery.
Alan Cohen
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
Alan Cohen
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.
Alan Cohen
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
Alan Cohen
Fascination is fertilizer. Whatever you place your attention on grows.
Alan Cohen
Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything, This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.
Alan Cohen
How good can you let it get?
Alan Cohen
If you have good wealth mentality.... you will generate wealth wherever you go. Even if you lose money temporarily, your wealth mentality will attract it again. If you have a lack mentality, no matter how much you receive or what financial opportunities come your way, wealth will evade you or, if it comes, it won't last.
Alan Cohen
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
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Alan Cohen
Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
Alan Cohen
Live your spirit’s dreams, not your mind’s.
Alan Cohen
Money is not the root of all evil…ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.
Alan Cohen
Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.
Alan Cohen
Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.
Alan Cohen
Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.
Alan Cohen
Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.
Alan Cohen
The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.
Alan Cohen
The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward.
Alan Cohen
The same source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.
Alan Cohen
We believe we are hurt when we don’t receive love. But that is not what hurts us. Our pain comes when we do not give love. We were born to love. You might say that we are divinely created love machines. We function most powerfully when we are giving love. The world has led us to believe that our wellbeing is dependent on other people loving us. But this is kind of upside down thinking that has caused so many of our problems. The truth is our well being is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!
Alan Cohen
Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
Alan Cohen
Life is playfulness…We need to play so that we can rediscover the magic all around us.
Flora Colao
Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Colette
Sit down, and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
Colette
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette
We only do well the things we like doing.
Colette
Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.
Robert Collier
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collier
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Judy Collins
When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go…The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back.
Judy Collins
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
Marva Collins
If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything.
Marva Collins
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
Marva Collins
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucious
Choose a job you love and you will never work another day in your life.
Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius
If there be righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in character. If there be beauty in character, there will be harmony in the home. If there be harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. If there be order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
Confucius
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Plant a thought, reap an act. Plant an act, reap a habit. Plant a habit, reap a character. Plant a character, reap a destiny.
Confucius
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Confucius
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
To know that you know, and to know that you don’t know – that is real wisdom.
Confucius
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
Confucius
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge.
Confucius
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
William Congreve
Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.
Robert Conklin
The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Cyril Connolly
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
James Cook
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge
No man ever listened his way out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
True friendship is like sound health. The value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Caleb Cotton
Every day in every way I’m getting better and better.
Emile Coue
Appreciation can make a day – even change a life.
Margaret Cousins
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live.
Norman Cousins
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Norman Cousins
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
Norman Cousins
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Norman Cousins
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
Stephen Covey
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen Covey
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Stephen R. Covey
Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Stephen R. Covey
Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
Stephen R. Covey
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Stephen R. Covey
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
Stephen R. Covey
Trust is the glue of live. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen R. Covey
Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
Stephen R. Covey
Nothing is more exciting and bonding in relationships than creating together.
Steven R. Covey
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley
Grief is itself a medicine.
William Cowper
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
The garden is a love song, a duet between a human being and Mother Nature.
Jeff Cox
It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes a difference.
Jenny Craig
Losing weight for a big event is a great reason for you to call Jenny Craig, but don't forget the biggest of event all, your life.
Jenny Craig
Self-love is the only weight-loss aid that really works in the long run.
Jenny Craig
What is a friend? I will tell you. It is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
Frank Crane
There’s a wonder in the way we’re always free, to change the world by changing how we see.
Cynki Craven
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Broderick Crawford
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Roger Crawford
Make a little, sell a little, take small steps.
3M Corporation Creed
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
Roy Croft
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
James Crook
Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.
Sonia Croquette
If you’re dedicated, if it’s something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you’ve simply got to go ahead and do it.
Rodney Crowell
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley
Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.
Thomas Crum
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives…and where we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity….one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naïve at the same time… Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives…and where we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e.e. cummings
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e.e. cummings
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e.e. cummings
To be nobody but myself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me somebody else-means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight, and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings
Do not save your living speeches for your friends 'til they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
Anna Cummins
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Madame Curie
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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D’Souza
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Leonardo da Vinci
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Leonardo da Vinci
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci
:The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.
Dalai Lama
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business. It is not luxury. It is essential for our own peace and mental stability. It is essential for human survival.
Dalai Lama
I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.
Dalai Lama
I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
Dalai Lama
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of ‘us’ and ‘them’.
Dalai Lama
If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.
Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever destroyed all of his enemies and lived with a sense of satisfaction. If one enemy is killed, two more will appear. It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to bring peace to all.
Dalai Lama
Our business is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
Dalai Lama
Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama
Spend some time alone every day.
Dalai Lama
The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than external factors. If you own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
Dalai Lama
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.
Dalai Lama
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.
Dalai Lama
To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else.
Dalai Lama
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai Lama
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes other feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Dalai Lama
With the realization of one’s own potential and self confidence in one’s own ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama
Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.
Dalai Lama
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali
I am not strange, I am just not normal.
Salvador Dali
I dare you, while there is still time, to have a magnificent obsession.
William Danforth
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony D'Angelo
Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.
Deng Ming Dao
Dream the impossible dream.
Joe Darion
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence Darrow
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!
Ram Dass
Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!
Ram Dass
If you’re too busy to enjoy life, you’re too busy.
Jeff Davidson
Life is chance to grow a soul.
A. Powell Davies
What is this life if, full of care, we have not time to stand and stare.
W. H. Davies
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes a creation.
Bette Davis
If you risk nothing, you risk everything.
Geena Davis
Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
Miles Davis
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
Miles Davis
Sometimes you have to play for a long time to be able to play like yourself.
Miles Davis
We are weaving the future on the loom of today.
Grace Stricker Dawson
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends, you talk to your enemies.
Moche Dayan
We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara de Angelis
Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
Barbara De Angelis
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits.
Edward de Bono
Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.
Edward de Bono
Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone.
Edward de Bono
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
Edward de Bono
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
Edward de Bono
Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward de Bono
Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill which must be learned.
Edward de Bono
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
Miguel De Cervantes
Action makes more fortune than caution.
Luc De Clapiers
We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.
Luciano de Crescenzo
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
Catherine de Hueck Doherty
Out of difficulties grow miracles.
Jean De La Bruyere
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de la Fontaine
Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de la Fontaine
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de la Fontaine
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
Anthony de Mello
There is only one cause of unhappiness; the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
Anthony de Mello
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
Agnes de Mile
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de Mille
There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
Michel de Mondaigne
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Michel de Montaigne
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade
He who would travel happily must travel light.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become – to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It is only with heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Fear is a greater evil than evil itself.
St. Francis de Sales
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign that something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
Dream as if you’ll live forever…live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Charles Dederich
It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.
Ellen DeGeneres
The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life’s work.
Ellen DeGeneres
Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something – more money, security, affection – or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.
David Deida
To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker
An artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
The source of genius is imagination alone.
Eugene Delacroix
What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland
Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
Jacques Delille
You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own.
D.M. Dellinger
The quality of your life is based on the quality of the questions you ask.
John Demartini
Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I have never worked a day in my life.
Dr. Leila Denmark (100+, America’s oldest practicing physician)
When you really listen to yourself, you can heal yourself.
Ceanne Derohan
I think, therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.
Richard M. Devos
Few things in this world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope.
Richard M. Devos
The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it and the faith to believe it's possible.
Richard M. Devos
Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: ‘We’ve always done it that way.’
Catherine DeVrye
Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open.
Thomas R. Dewar
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
John Dewey
To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey
Better than a thousand useless words is one single word that gives peace.
The Dhammapada
Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
John Diamond
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
Phillip K. Dick
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
Charles Dickens
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickenson
Unable are the loved to die for love is immortality.
Emily Dickenson
I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
To be alive is power, existing in itself, without a further function, omnipotence enough.
Emily Dickinson
It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.
P Diddy
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Albert Diderot
I write to discover what I think.
Joan Didion
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
John Diefenbaker
It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard
I have never read any theologian who claims God is particularly interested in religion, anyway.
Annie Dillard
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
Annie Dillard
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard
I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
Phyllis Diller
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Isak Dinesen
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.
Isak Dinesen
To be a person is to have a story to tell.
Isak Dinesen
Time is the physician that heals every grief.
Diphilus
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
I believe in being an innovator.
Walt Disney
If you dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
It is kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.
Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always being happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
Benjamin Disraeli
No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.
Benjamin Disraeli
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
You never lose until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.
James C. Dobson
Luck is largely a matter of paying attention.
Susan M. Dodd
Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize.
Mike Dooley
It only ‘doesn’t work out’ if you quit. Never, ever quit!
Mike Dooley
The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can.
Mike Dooley
To succeed…You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett
I simply don't know how anyone can write at great speed, and only for the money's sake.
Feodor Dostoevsky
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
Fyodor Dostoyesvsky
Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy. If anyone finds out he’ll become happy at once.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodar Dostoyevsky
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.
Bill Drayton
Don’t say, Yes! Just take my hand and dance with me.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
I want to remind us all that the world is listening, all the time. How we are ripples out from us into the world and affects others. We have a responsibility – an ability to respond – to the world. Finding our particular way of living this responsibility, of offering who we are to the world, is why we are here. We are called because the world needs us to embody the meaning in our lives. God needs us awake. The world we live in is a co-creation, a manifestation of individual consciousness woven into a collective dream. How we are with each other as individuals, as groups, as nations and tribes, is what shapes that dream.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance, the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart, and I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
What if the question is not why I am so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Who you really are is enough.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible.
Nancy Drew
In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow.
Louise Driscoll
Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.
Peter Drucker
The most effective way to manage change is to create it.
Peter Drucker
Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter F. Drucker
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
Peter F. Drucker
Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.
Peter F. Drucker
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.
Peter F. Drucker
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter F. Drucker
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
Peter F. Drucker
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
Peter F. Drucker
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker
Creativity is work that goes some place: it is sustained effort toward an ideal.
Michael Drury
Love either finds equality or makes it.
John Dryden
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
Charles Du Bos
Enlightenment takes place when one lets his innocence emerge and sees nature and life with a childlike awe and respect. The ‘why’ of a child is repeated over and over, causing questions and the never-ending process of discovery.
Charles DuBack
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
Rene Dubos
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
Mary Dunbar
I do not teach children. I give them joy.
Isadora Duncan
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
Isadora Duncan
The greatest thing is to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can become.
Max Dupree
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Max Dupree
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will Durant
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.
Will Durant
Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
Will Durant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
It is not peace we seek but meaning.
Lawrence Durrell
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
Eleanora Duse
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
Timothy Dwight
Touch is the meaning of being human.
Andrea Dworkin
Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
Wayne Dyer
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
Wayne Dyer
Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you.
Wayne Dyer
When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.
Wayne Dyer
You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, I release the need for this in my life.
Wayne Dyer
Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.
Wayne Dyer
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God’s work, peacefully and harmoniously.
Wayne Dyer
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
Wayne Dyer
Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that spirit has found celebration through them.
Wayne Dyer
Creativity means believing you have greatness.
Wayne Dyer
Death is nothing to fear. It is only another dimension.
Wayne Dyer
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Wayne Dyer
Don’t die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.
Wayne Dyer
Everything that you are against works against you. Everything that you are against can be restated in a way that puts you in support of something. When you are able to state what you are for rather than what you are against, you are focusing on the potential for positive change. Once that is in place, you will find whatever you are focusing on expanding.
Wayne Dyer
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Wayne Dyer
For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.
Wayne Dyer
Good morning, this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day.
Wayne Dyer
I am realistic – I expect miracles.
Wayne Dyer
If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ‘the quiet acceptance of what is’.
Wayne Dyer
Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne Dyer
Listen. Don’t explain or justify.
Wayne Dyer
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer
Love what you do.
Wayne Dyer
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Wayne Dyer
Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer
Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.
Wayne Dyer
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.
Wayne Dyer
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne Dyer
The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
Wayne Dyer
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
Wayne Dyer
The positive effect of kindness on the immune system and on the increased production of serotonin in the brain has been proven in research studies. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that makes us feel more comfortable, peaceful, and even blissful. In fact, the role of most anti-depressants is to stimulate the production of serotonin chemically, helping to ease depression. Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this! Kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved!
Wayne Dyer
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.
Wayne Dyer
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Wayne Dyer
When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.
Wayne Dyer
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer
You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime.
Wayne Dyer
You’ll see it when you believe it.
Wayne Dyer
You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you’ve lost them forever.
Wayne Dyer
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with freedom.
Bob Dylan
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
Always make new mistakes.
Esther Dyson
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There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.
John M. Eades
If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.
Betty Eadie
Adventure is worthwhile.
Amelia Earhart
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Amelia Earhart
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.
Amelia Earhart
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life, and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
A smile is the universal welcome.
Max Eastman
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
It is a fact of life that we find ourselves in unpleasant demoralizing situations which we can neither escape nor control. We can keep our morale and spirits high by using both coping and hoping humor. Coping humor laughs at the hopelessness in our situation. It gives us the courage to hang in there, but it does not bring hope. The uniqueness of hoping humor lies in its acceptance of life with all its dichotomies, contradictions, and incongruities. It celebrates the hope in human life. From one comes courage, from the other comes inspiration.
Cy Eberhart
Do your duty until it becomes your joy.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Action and becoming are one.
Meister Eckhart
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
Meister Eckhart
Between God and me there is no between.
Meister Eckhart
If the only prayer you say in your life is ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.
Meister Eckhart
Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Meister Eckhart
Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.
Arthur Eddington
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Marion Wright Edelman
Creativity is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
Thomas Edison
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
Thomas Edison
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
There are no rules here. We're trying to accomplish something!
Thomas Edison
Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Thomas Edison
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing....
Thomas Alva Edison
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Thomas Alva Edison
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Alva Edison
Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.
Thomas Alva Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas Alva Edison
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness....
Thomas Alva Edison
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there is in silence.
Max Ehrmann
At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.
Albert Einstein
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.
Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein
Ideas come from God.
Albert Einstein
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.
Albert Einstein
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survivial of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Play is the highest form of research.
Albert Einstein
Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination and marks the real advances in science.
Albert Einstein
A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind’s eye.
Albert Einstein
Astrology is a science in itself and contains an illuminating body of knowledge. It taught me many things, and I am greatly indebted to it. Geophysical evidence reveals the power of the stars and the planets in relation to the terrestrial. In turn, astrology reinforces this power to some extent. This is why astrology is like a life-giving elixir to mankind.
Albert Einstein
At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.
Albert Einstein
Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Every child is born a genius.
Albert Einstein
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.
Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
It is ever man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Most people see what is, and never see what can be.
Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don’t know how or why.
Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
Albert Einstein
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein
We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.
T. Harv Eker
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Larry Elder
A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.
Paul Eldridge
Whoever does not see God in every place does not see God in any place.
Rabbi Elimelech
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
George Eliot
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other.
George Eliot
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot
I said to my soul, be still, and wait...So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T.S. Eliot
Only those who risk going too far know how far they can go.
T.S. Eliot
The stillness shall be the dancing and the darkness the light.
T.S. Eliot
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
Peace…comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the Universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the Universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.
Black Elk
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
White Elk
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
Duke Ellington
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and to be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope.
George Elliot
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not the slave of your own past –plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the thing and you will have the power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Explore. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas must word through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought is the seed of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To believe in your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men – that is genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unselfish acts are the real miracles out of which all the reported miracles grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that you cannot sincerely try to help another without helping yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life consists of what a person is thinking about all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real action is in the silent moments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scatter joy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We judge a man’s wisdom by his hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are not a beggar at the table of life. You are the honored guest.
Emmanuel
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Nathaniel Emmons
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, ‘You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission.’
Eve Ensler
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let if first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus
We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens.
Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Epicurus
All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about…We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing...But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.
Joseph Epstein
Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
Lou Erickson
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
Erik Erikson
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Sven Goran Eriksson
The fluttering of a butterfly’s wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet.
Paul Erlich
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine
Goals determine what you're going to be.
Julius Erving
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Erwin
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.
M. C. Escher
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter ‘till they bloom, ‘til you yourself burst into bloom.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Creativity is an act of self-discovery.
Sebastion Esteverena
Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
Melissa Etheridge
I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it’s own greatest strength - it’s diversity.
Melissa Etheridge
Stop being so impressed with what other people are doing and get impressed about yourself. You have a story that the world wants to hear. Go tell it!
Stone Evans
You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.
Medgar Evers
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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Frederick W. Faber
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Frederick W. Faber
Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass.
Chuck T. Falcon
Nothing is too wonderful to be true.
Michael Faraday
I get it now; I didn’t get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible…and enjoying everything in between.
Mia Farrow
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance--that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be--curious--to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
William Faulkner
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good.
William Faulkner
If a story is in you, it has got to come out.
William Faulkner
There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.
Frederick Faust
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
To fully be a human being is to take full responsibility for one’s part in the co-creation of the world.
Joel Federman
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Marilyn Ferguson
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Marilyn Ferguson
How often—even before we began—have we declared a task ‘impossible’? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being inadequate?...A great deal depends upon the thought patterns we choose and on the persistence with which we affirm them.
Piero Ferrucci
What makes your heart flutter? Do only that. There is not enough time for anything else.
Richard P. Feynman
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Sally Field
When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way…if it comes from the heart.
Debbi Fields
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.
Debbi Fields
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Totie Fields
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
Let’s assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
John Fischer
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher
Until you know that life is interesting – and find it so – you haven’t found your soul.
Geoffrey Fisher
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happy are they who don't doubt themselves and whose pens fly across the page. I myself hesitate, I falter, I become angry and fearful, my drive diminishes as my taste improves, and I brood more over an ill-suited word than I rejoice over a well-proportioned paragraph.
Gustave Flaubert
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.
Rudolf Flesch
How much of your life do you spend looking forward to being somewhere else?
Matthew Flickstein
Thomas Edison tried 10,000 different materials before finding one that was suitable to serve as a light bulb filament. So if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. We need to set up a system where risk is rewarded. One where we recognize that failure helps us to increase our creativity. Nothing risked is nothing gained.
Beth Flynn
Use the word perhaps to change your negative beliefs to possibilities that invite action and, ultimately, to positive beliefs and probabilities.
Anita Foley
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.
Mary Parker Follett
Diversity is the act of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
The best vision is insight.
Malcolm Forbes
The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things…it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future.
Steve Forbes
After a few (or many) bad relationships, it's so easy to shut down, give up, and stop believing that the right person is out there for us. Our hearts yearn to fall in love, but our minds insist it's not possible, and we enter into a tug-of-war with ourselves. It's as if one part of us is screaming, Yes! I deserve a great relationship! while another part insists, I'll never find him or her. When our beliefs contradict our desires, we experience an inner conflict that not only paralyzes us, but can actually prevent us from recognizing the possibilities for love that exist all around us.
Arielle Ford
The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness. If we believe the world is a loving and friendly place, then most of the time that will be our experience. If we believe the world is a chaotic, stressful, and fearful place, then eventually that will become our reality. So, believing and knowing that your soulmate is out there is a critical first step in the formula for manifesting him or her into your life.
Arielle Ford
When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life.
Arielle Ford
All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.
Debbie Ford
All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different?
Debbie Ford
Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.
Debbie Ford
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.
Debbie Ford
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether 20 or 80, anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice form me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
Obstacles are those frightful things we see when we take our eyes off our goal.
Henry Ford
Whether you think you can or you can’t – you are right.
Henry Ford
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford
I think ‘destiny’ is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.
Jodie Foster
Set your intention, and trust the universe to take care of the details.
Mike Fotheringham
Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.
Simon Fowler
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you....If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
Emmet Fox
Life is consciousness.
Emmet Fox
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
Anatole France
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
Anatole France
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
Never lend books; no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books other people have lent me.
Anatole France
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
Anatole France
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
Creativity is an attitude that transcends paradigms and beliefs.It's a soul level yearning to fulfill a purpose, uniquely contribute and leave a mark.
Janice Francisco
Everyone has inside him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t yet realize how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.
Anne Frank
I shall not remain insignificant. I shall work in the world for mankind…I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living, even after my death.
Anne Frank
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
Mistakes are part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Rose Franken
Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run - in the long-run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.
Viktor Frankl
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor Frankl
The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances.
Viktor Frankl
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
Viktor Frankl
What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor Frankl
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Viktor Frankl
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
A full belly makes a dull brain.
Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.
Benjamin Franklin
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Benjamin Franklin
One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.
Benjamin Franklin
There has never been a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin
Fish and visitors stink after three days.
Benjamin Franklin
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Benjamin Franklin
As soon as we notice that certain types of events ‘like’ to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a ‘science’ of meaningful coincidences.
Marie Louise von Franz
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
Grant Frazier
Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
Arthur Freed
Mentoring brings us together – across generation, class, and often race – in a manner that forces us to acknowledge our interdependence, to appreciate, in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words, that ‘we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied to a single garment of destiny.’ In this way, mentoring enables us to participate in the essential but unfinished drama of reinventing community, while reaffirming that there is an important role for each of us in it.
Marc Freedman
Love is an act of courage, not of fear.
Paolo Freire
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud
Love is a union with somebody, or someething, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. It is an experience of sharing, or communing, which permits the full unfolding of one's own inner activity.
Erich Fromm
Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
Erich Fromm
The capacity to be puzzled is…the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
Erich Fromm
Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.
Erich Fromm
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Robert Frost
Entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
Robert Frost
Th brain is a wonderful organ; it starts the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.
Robert Frost
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
We couldn’t conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened.
Libbie Fudim
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.
Robert Fulghum
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Buckminster Fuller
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Buckminster Fuller
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes in the world come about. So be that person.
Buckminster Fuller
The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller
The brain simply believes what you tell it most. And what you tell it about you, it will create. It has no choice.
Chandler Fuller
The special genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
Margaret Fuller
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
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Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
Peter Gabriel
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
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.
Thomas Robert Gaines
Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it’ll turn out that this was good, so I shan’t worry about it too much.
William Gaines
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
Gloria Gaither
Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.
Gloria Gaither
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I’ve loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Galileo
Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher
Your self image is your pattern! Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns lead your life.
J. G. Gallimore
Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Indira Gandhi
Action is my domain.
Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Mahatma Gandhi
Every night, when I go to sleep, I die. Every morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
God has no religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before anyone even at the cost of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian.
Mahatma Gandhi
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
Mahatma Gandhi
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.
Mahatma Gandhi
It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is possible to live in peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Love never claims, it ever gives.
Mahatma Gandhi
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I don’t have it in the beginning.
Mahatma Gandhi
My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody can hurt you without your permission.
Mahatma Gandhi
Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
Mahatma Gandhi
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma Gandhi
The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.
Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi
To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Arne Garborg
The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow.
Will Garcia
The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow.
Will Garcia
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
John W. Gardner
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
John W. Gardner
When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
John W. Gardner
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John William Gardner
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
James A. Garfield
Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland
It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland
You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.
Steve Garvey
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates
Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.
Bill Gates
I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities…on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity.
Bill Gates
Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.
Bill Gates
The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates
What I do best is share my enthusiasm.
Bill Gates
Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Bill Gates
Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.
Tom Gates
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
If I could identify one core problem about the world, it’s that we’ve been taught to distrust ourselves.
Shakti Gawain
A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.
Shakti Gawain
Each one of us has all the wisdom and knowledge we ever need right within us. It is available to us through our intuitive mind, which is our connection with universal intelligence.
Shakti Gawain
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the Universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request and everything your heart desires must come to you.
Shakti Gawain
I have found that it is the willingness to say what I feel and want that makes me feel whole.
Shakti Gawain
Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing.
Shakti Gawain
Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.
Shakti Gawain
The more we learn to operate in the world based on trust in our intuition, the stronger our channel will be and the more money we will have.
Shakti Gawain
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
Shakti Gawain
This or something better now manifests for me in totally satisfying and harmonious ways, for the highest good of all concerned.
Shakti Gawain
To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe.
Shakti Gawain
We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.
Shakti Gawain
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other peoples’ models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
Shakti Gawain
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
Shakti Gawain
Work and play are the same. When you’re following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.
Shakti Gawain
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Shakti Gawain
We have died one thousand deaths by the age of twenty – every crossroad is a death.
Shari Gaynor
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
Michael J. Gelb
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen
Dare to be remarkable.
Jane Gentry
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Albert F. Geoffrey
The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies.
Michael Gerber
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
Geronimo
There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.
J. Paul Getty
Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people’s too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway…
Nancy Gibbs
If you’re not using your smile, you’re like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.
Les Giblin
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility; for his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, and the cup he brings, though it burn your lips has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.
Kahlil Gibran
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
Kahlil Gibran
We plan our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
When you work, you fulfill a part of earth's fondest dream assigned to you when that dream is born.
Kahlil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
…joy and sorrow are inseparable…together they come and when one sits alone with you…remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Kahlil Gibran
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lovely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
Kahlil Gibran
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Kahlil Gibran
Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth. Say not, I have found the path of the soul, Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path. For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Kahlil Gibran
Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.
Kahlil Gibran
The deeper the sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that hold your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
Kahlil Gibran
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
Kahlil Gibran
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Kahlil Gibran
I am wealth. I am abundance. I am joy.
David Cameron Gikandi
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert
Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.
Elizabeth Gilbert
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
Elizabeth Gilbert
People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
Elizabeth Gilbert
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.
Elizabeth Gilbert
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful ‘magic skills’ that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Elizabeth Gilbert
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Rob Gilbert
There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.
Charles D. Gill
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Jerry Gillies
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Life is a verb, not a noun.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs …one step at a time.
Joe Girard
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs...one step at a time.
Joe Girard
It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.
George Gissing
Even when he is still, the selfish man is busy. Even when he is busy, the selfless man is still.
Ashtavakra Gita
Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.
Bhagavad Gita
Ignore people who tell you ‘you can’t’ or try to discourage you.
Jeffrey Gitomer
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand, extraordinary things begin to happen.
Loretta Gizartis
Justice delayed is justice denied.
William Gladstone
Improvement begins with I.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life. And everyone deserves a little sunshine.
Jeffrey Glassberg
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end...but not necessarily in that order.
Jean Luc Godard
In the place of stillness, rises potential. From the place of potential, emerges possibility. Where there is possibility, there is choice. And where there is choice, there is freedom.
Gabriella Goddard
Learn to shake yourself loose from what the world believes is the only reality.
Neville Goddard
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with tohers.
Goethe
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred…unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Action has magic, grace and power in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Each one sees what he carries in his heart.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone hears only what one understands.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It‘s not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Magic is believing in yourself. If you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.
Natalie Goldberg
Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life.
Natalie Goldberg
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
Natalie Goldberg
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
God is not found in places. God is found in consciousness.
Joel Goldsmith
Hatred never ceases by hatred; it only ceases by love. This is a timeless truth.
Joseph Goldstein
The mind takes delight in offering the best, giving what we value most.
Joseph Goldstein
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
Samuel Goldwyn
When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
John Mason Good
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that acompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman
If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.
Carla Gordon
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
The three words women most want to hear from a man are, You lost weight.
Lori Gottlieb
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature- that’s where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.
Sue Grafton
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham
To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything else be more fun?
Katharine Graham
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Martha Graham
The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
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 of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.
Martha Graham
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
Curtis Grant
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant
Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs…of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.
David Grayson
Everyone has a covenant and a purpose which is special, and if you do not fulfill it, -- there is no one else who will.
Glenda Green
Life is a series of thousands of tiny miracles.
Mike Greenburg
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
Giving is the highest expression of power.
Vivian Greene
Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain!
Vivian Greene
Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never broken, and dance like no one is watching.
Aurora Greenway
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Germaine Greer
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
Germaine Greer
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Germaine Greer
A garden is the best alternative therapy.
Germaine Greer
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred T. Grenfell
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky
The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.
Gerard Groote
I must tell you, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
To accomplish much you must first lose everything.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not.
J. P. Guilford
To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually.
J. P. Guilford
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Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I’d like to see you in better living conditions.
Hafiz
Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
Hafiz
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
Hafiz
Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
Hafiz
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.
Jonathan Haidt
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capabilities, then go beyond to a higher level.
Alexander Haig
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.
Edward Everett Hale
Find the good – and praise it.
Alex Haley
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Richard Halloway
No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.
Mia Hamm
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.
Armand Hammer
I’ve never transcended what I haven’t embraced.
Jon Marc Hammer
The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
Lionel Hampton
Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie.
Herbie Hancock
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
Herbie Hancock
Many of us are not capable of releasing the past, of releasing the suffering of the past. We want to cling to our own suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh
May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
My actions are my only true belongings.
Thich Nhat Hanh
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.
Thich Nhat Hanh
At any moment you have a choice that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Because of your smile you make life more beautiful.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
Thich Nhat Hanh
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong…Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
Thich Nhat Hanh
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child-our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
Thich Nhat Hanh
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The journey to financial freedom starts the MINUTE you decide you were destined for prosperity, not scarcity-- for abundance, not lack. Isn't there a part of you that has always known that? Can you see yourself living a bounteous life-- a life of more than enough? It only takes one minute to decide. Decide now.
Mark Victor Hansen
Whatever you're ready for is ready for you.
Mark Victor Hansen
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Mark Victor Hansen
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
Mark Victor Hansen
Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.
Mark Victor Hansen
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
Michael Hanson
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
Joy Harjo
One person speaking up makes more noise than a thousand people who remain silent.
Thom Harnett
It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
Sidney J. Harris
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris
Everything is affected by and is part of everything else, changing constantly from one state to another. The rain becomes the river; the river surrenders to the sea and the cycle begins over again. Nothing is ever lost. The melody changes – the dance goes on.
Connie Harrison
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Elizabeth Harrison
Zen is the vehicle of reality.
Jim Harrison
All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.
Chris Hart
Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.
Robert J. Hastings
When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.
Tony Hatch
A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.
Arnold Haultain
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Vaclav Havel
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
Paul Hawken
Everything is connected…no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
The great thing about the dilemma we’re in is that we get to re-imagine every single thing we do…There isn’t a single thing that doesn’t require a complete remake. There are two ways of looking at that. One is: Oh my gosh, what a big burden. The other way, which I prefer, is: What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.
Paul Hawken
You are brilliant and the earth is hiring.
Paul Hawken
There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.
Stephen Hawking
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Goldie Hawn
If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk.
Goldie Hawn
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Goldie Hawn
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathanial Hawthorne
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Friends are the sunshine of life.
John Hay
As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!
Louise Hay
I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.
Louise Hay
Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.
Louise Hay
Every thought we think is creating our future.
Louise Hay
I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now.
Louise Hay
I am one with the Power that created me. I am totally open and receptive to the abundant flow of prosperity that the Universe offers. All my needs and desires are met before I even ask. I am Divinely guided and protected, and I make choices that are beneficial for me. I rejoice in other’s successes, knowing there is plenty for us all.
Louise Hay
I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun.
Louise Hay
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Louise Hay
It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.
Louise Hay
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise Hay
My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good.
Louise Hay
The bottom line for everyone is I’m not good enough. It’s only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
Louise Hay
The point of power is always in the present moment.
Louise Hay
See where your own energy wants to go, not where you think it should go. Do something because it feels right, not because it makes sense. Follow the spiritual impulse.
Mary Hayes-Grieco
Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
William Hazlitt
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Friedrich Hebbel
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people’s excuses.
Friedrich Hebbel
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Dorothy Height
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine
Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
R. H. Heinlein
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. Heinlein
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
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
Robert A. Heinlein
One man’s religion is another man’s belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Joseph Heller
Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it
Ernest Hemingway
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
Brad Henry
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.
Heraclitus
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Anne Herbert
If you want money, ask for advice; if you want advice, ask for money.
Peter Hero
Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
Oliver Herring
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
James Herriot
Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Hermann Hesse
Happiness is a how; not a want. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
Solitude is independence.
Hermann Hesse
Solitude is independence.
Hermann Hesse
The true profession of man is to find his way to himself.
Hermann Hesse
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse
All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them.
Isabel Hickey
A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking. So as you keep thinking this thought, you keep vibrationally attracting relative to that thought. So you confirm your own beliefs again and again and again and again and again. That’s why someone who believes in cancer can confirm that belief, or someone who believes in robbery can confirm that belief. So everything is a sort of confirmation of belief.
Abraham-Hicks
A visionary thrives under all conditions.
Abraham-Hicks
Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it, the essence of your desires is activated, and the Universe begins to bring it to you. The more intense your positive feelings, the faster it is coming to you. (It is as easy to create a castle as a button).
Abraham-Hicks
Anything you give your attention to will become your ‘truth.’ The Law of Attraction says it must. Your life, and everyone else’s, too, is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts. There is no exception to this.
Abraham-Hicks
I’m going to be happy. I’m going to skip. I’m going to be glad. I’m going to be easy. I’m going to count my blessings. I’m going to look for reasons to feel good. I’m going to dig up positive things from the past. I’m going to look for positive things where I stand. I’m going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It’s natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.
Abraham-Hicks
It is not your work to make anything happen. It’s your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it happen. In your joy, you create something, and then you maintain your vibrational harmony with it and the Universe must find a way to bring it about. That’s the promise of Law of Attraction.
Abraham-Hicks
Joy is the highest expression of love.
Abraham-Hicks
Life is a series of delicious moments.
Abraham-Hicks
Never face reality unless it matches what you want.
Abraham-Hicks
No matter what the issue is, don’t try to justify why you don’t feel good. And don’t try to justify why you should feel differently. Don’t try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that’s keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.
Abraham-Hicks
People will love you, people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to do with you.
Abraham-Hicks
The more in vibrational sync you are with who you really are, then the more you are allowing only those things that you’re wanting, and the less resistance there is. And the less resistance there is, then the less delay between the idea of the thought and the receiving of it.
Abraham-Hicks
The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.
Abraham-Hicks
When people ask us how long does it take for something to manifest, we say, It takes as long as it takes you to release the RESISTANCE. Could be 30 years, could be 40 years, could be 50 years, could be a week. Could be tomorrow afternoon.
Abraham-Hicks
When you are praising, when you are appreciating, when you are acknowledging value, when you are looking for positive aspects, when you are laughing, when you are applauding, when you are joyous, when you are feeling that feeling of appreciation pulsing through you, in those times, there IS NO RESISTANCE within you. You are, in those moments, vibrationally up to speed with who you really are.
Abraham-Hicks
Within the seed of your desire is everything necessary for it to blossom to fulfillment. And Law of Attraction is the engine that does the work. Your work is just to give it a fertile growing place in order to expand.
Abraham-Hicks
You are a creator. You create with your every thought…anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have.
Abraham-Hicks
You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.
Abraham-Hicks
I don't have a belief problem, I have a focusing weakness. I focus on what's loudest instead of what feels best.
Abraham-Hicks
No matter whether you worry or rejoice in your virtual reality, you set up a vibration that the Law of Attraction matches.
Abraham-Hicks
The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.
Abraham-Hicks
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
Don’t agonize. Organize.
Jim Hightower
The me I see is the me I'll be, but the me I feel is the me that's real.
Brian Hill
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
Napoleon Hill
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon Hill
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Napoleon Hill
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve
Napoleon Hill
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Napoleon Hill
Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.
James Hillman
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton
To achieve big things you have to have big dreams.
Conrad Hilton
Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only makes sense.
Josh Hinds
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates
A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician.
Hippocrates
You don’t see luck as an accident. It’s a meaningful synchronicity.
Will Hipps
Strength and courage aren't always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles they overcome. The strongest people aren't always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose.
Ashley Hodgeson
The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him.
Eric Hofer
For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future, but an excuse can last for life.
Eric Hoffer
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time, it is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else – we are the busiest people in the world.
Eric Hoffer
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who’s different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.
Alice Hoffman
Life is something to be in, not something to get through.
Dustin Hoffman
Your happiness is your gift to the world.
Robert Holden
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly…Perhaps it’s a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.
Barbara Holland
As long as you don’t forgive, you and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
Isabelle Holland
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr.
I am a gift of joy that God gives to a wonderful world.
Ernest Holmes
There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, I am he proclaims it.
Ernest Holmes
Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.
Ernest Holmes
When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.
Ernest Holmes
Never tell anyone that something can’t be done. God may have waited centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
J.R. Holmes
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes, Jr.
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a lifetime’s experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendall Holmes
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mind once stretched by an empowering idea, can never fully shrink to its original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.
John Holt
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Winifred Holtby
I can’t believe God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
Lou Holtz
A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself to be.
Lou Holtz
Go on with a spirit that fears nothing!
Homer
Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda
She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.
Bob Hope
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper
A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
Grace Hopper
If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
Grace Hopper
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it is good to check once in awhile and make sure you have not lost the things that money cannot buy.
George Horace
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne
Concern should drive us into action, not into depression.
Karen Horney
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston
We all have the extraordinary coded within us waiting to be released.
Jean Houston
When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows.
Rachel Houston
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard
If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Ed Howe
We hold these truths to be self-evident; All people are born creative; Endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right and responsibility to express our creativity for the sake of ourselves and our world.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius.
Elbert Hubbard
Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.
Elbert Hubbard
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain.
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.
Cheri Huber
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold S. Hubert
If you haven’t forgiving yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes
I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.
Langston Hughes
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo
Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose hour has come.
Victor Hugo
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo
Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
Jonathan Lochwood Huie
Gratitude is a form of wisdom. It is patient, loving, hopeful, and rigorously honest. It denies nothing, and it overlooks nothing. It looks reality full in the face and says: This is true, this is me, this is my situation, and I have the opportunity to build from here. This is my starting point, and I will succeed!
Phil Humbert
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts - it's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert Humphrey
Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Watts Humprey
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
It’s not the first impression you give, it’s the lasting impression you leave behind.
Ara Hunt
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt
Talk to me like I’m someone you love.
Helen Hunt
Every one of us is a wonder. Every one of us has a story.
Kristin Hunter
After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain or improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Volunteering is not a choice, it’s a responsibility.
Ashley E. Hyder
We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.
Conrad Hyers
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.
Lee Iacocca
No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you accomplished?
Lee Iacocca
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca
You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act.
Lee Iacocca
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
Robert Iger
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda
Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.
Daisaku Ikeda
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
Dean Inge
We rise by lifting others.
Robert Ingersoll
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes, great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elequently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.
J. Isham
Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.
Doug Ivester
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Never take counsel of your fears.
Andrew Jackson
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.
Michael Jackson
Be yourself. Above all. Let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
John Jakes
It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
Henry James
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Larry James
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P.D. James
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
William James
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young—or slender.
William James
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James
In the dim background of our mind, we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
William James
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. As you think, so shall you be.
William James
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.
William James
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
Storm Jameson
Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.
Judith Jamison
Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
Kay Renfield Jamison
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.
Gerald Jampolsky
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky
I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It’s our ability to form and maintain relationships. It’s the barometer by which we call ourselves human.
Thomas Jane
Power is the ability not to have to please.
Elizabeth Janeway
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Anthony Jay
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers
Most of us do not 'sculpt' our lives. We accept what comes our way, then we gripe about it.
Susan Jeffers
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good – on your mirror.
Susan Jeffers
Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you.
Susan Jeffers
Saying yes means getting up and acting on your belief that you can create meaning and purpose in whatever life hands you.
Susan Jeffers
Take a risk a day – one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.
Susan Jeffers
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures…
Susan Jeffers
You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don't, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression-which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self.
Susan Jeffers
If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.
Thomas Jefferson
Walking is the best possible exercise.
Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and the deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.
Arthur Jersild
All things are possible to him who believes.
Jesus
Be compassionate as your Creator is compassionate.
Jesus
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
Jesus (The Gospel of Thomas/Gnostic Gospels)
I am not afraid…I was born to do this.
Joan of Ark
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
Steve Jobs
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Steve Jobs
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
Jasper Johns
Quit putting yourself in a little box by trying to live consistently with your past and explaining every little action you take. BE YOU. Fully. In this moment. Independent of what others may or may not 'expect' from you.
Brian Johnson
All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Samuel Johnson
The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
Samuel Johnson
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson
What we resist persists.
Sonia Johnson
Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.
Anna Fellows Johnston
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
Synchronicity hints at the unified world behind the illusory veil of the material universe.
Roger S. Jones
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Erica Jong
The soul is awakened through service.
Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
Erica Jong
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
Janis Joplin
I am responsible for me and must oversee with great sensitivity the impact of what I say or do on others.
Barbara Jordan
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games; 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Michael Jordan
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness.
Ola Joseph
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert
When you have the constant focus of going within and then acting, your life will unfold in magical ways.
Elizabeth Joy
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Your battles inspired me ~ not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
James Joyce
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Jung
Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness conscious.
Carl Jung
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched out human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.
Carl Jung
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its supreme purpose through him.
Carl Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects it loves.
Carl Jung
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
Carl Jung
Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
Carl Jung
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung
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If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
We’ve got to take back the ideal of justice, we’ve got to take back this principle of human dignity, we’ve got to take it back from vengeance, from hatred, we’ve got to say: look, we’re all in this together. We are human beings.
David Kaczynski
A book should be an ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
A book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
Franz Kafka
I tried to drown my sorrow, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Garson Kanin
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanual Kant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Anything you want to ask a teacher, ask yourself, and wait for the answer in silence.
Byron Katie
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
Byron Katie
It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.
Byron Katie
When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even experience them as friends coming to show you what you have not yet investigated thoroughly enough.
Byron Katie
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal.
Elia Kazan
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in other's minds.
Alfred Kazin
Telling stories is as basic to human beings as eating. More so, in fact, for while food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.
Richard Kearney
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.
Sam Keen
The ‘still, small voice’ of God never calls on me to be like another man. It appeals to me to rise to my full stature and fulfill the promise that sleeps within my being.
Sam Keen
What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.
Sam Keen
A man can’t make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.
Helen Keller
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight, silence would teach him the joys of sound.
Helen Keller
Ideas without action are worthless.
Helen Keller
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller
Life is a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched …but are felt in the heart.
Helen Keller
The one thing worse than not being able to see is having no vision.
Helen Keller
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Helen Keller
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Helen Keller
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
You will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
Helen Keller
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton
A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
Donald Kennedy
Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the risks of inaction.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Each time we stand up for an ideal, or act to improve the lot of others, or strike out against injustice, we send forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy
The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.
Robert F. Kennedy
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy
He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
Someday we'll find it, that rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me.
Kermit
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
Jean Kerr
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charled Kettering
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Charles F. Kettering
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
Ken Keyes, Jr.
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Ken Keyes, Jr.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as inn escaping from the old ones.
John Maynard Keynes
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
Pauline R. Kezer
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
When we pay attention to nature’s music, we find that everything on the earth contributes to its harmony.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart. Never give up, never lose hope. Allah says, The broken ones are my beloved. Crush your heart. Be broken.
Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
Victor Kiam
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
Victor Kiam
The really tough choices…don’t center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values.
Rushworth Kidder
Don’t forget to love yourself.
Søren Kierkegaard
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Søren Kierkegaard
Hope is passion for what is possible.
Søren Kierkegaard
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential - for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possibilities. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
Søren Kierkegaard
It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented form becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
Søren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Søren Kierkegaard
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
Søren Kierkegaard
The most common form of despair is not being who you are…
Søren Kierkegaard
Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.
Tama J. Kieves
Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response to what happens. And response is something we can choose.
Maureen Killoran
The air is like a butterfly with frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky and sings…
J. Kilmer
Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.
Dennis Kimbro
The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it -- even if only as a hobby -- is the key to happiness.
Dennis Kimbro
There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.
Dennis Kimbro
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King
All of the other shallow things will not matter. I won’t have any money to leave behind. I won’t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I want to leave a committed life behind.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t even have to make your subject and verb agree to serve…You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life’s most urgent questions is: What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never, never, be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
True peace is not merely the absence of tension it is the presence of justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have the power in the present moment to change limiting beliefs and consciously plant the seeds for the future of your choosing. As you change your mind, you change your experience.
Serge Kahili King
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
Stephen King
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
Stephen King
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
Stephen King
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Stephen King
In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter as much as the way we have loved one another.
Daphne Rose Kingman
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
Thomas Kinkade
When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.
Thomas Kinkade
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Robert Kiyosaki
The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.
Allen Klein
There are no language barriers when you are smiling.
Allen Klein
When we can laugh through our tears, we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad, but they cannot be all that bad.
Allen Klein
When Nike says, just do it, that’s a message of empowerment. Why aren’t the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Naomi Klein
Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment – the most priceless of human treasures – are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen – who make ‘good’ things happen – in the world around them.
Joe Klock
Whatever you focus on expands.
Christopher M. Knight
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
Edward Koch
When the mind is clear of all noise and self talk, this is when solutions are revealed, artists are inspired, paradigms are shifted.
Stephen J. Kochan
Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
Arthur Koestler
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
E. L. Konigsburg
There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.
Joe Konrath
To face despair and not give in to it, that’s courage.
Ted Koppel
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Koran
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do.
Michael Korda
The questions asked at the end of lie are very simple ones: Did I love well? Did I love the people around me, my community, the earth, in a deep way? And perhaps, Did I live fully? Did I offer myself to life?
Jack Kornfeld
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Jack Kornfield
In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that please us while relinquishing things that do not matter to us. A lukewarm yearning for awakening is not enough to sustain us through the difficulties involved in letting go. It is important to understand that anything that can be lost was never truly ours, anything that we deeply cling to only imprisons us.
Jack Kornfield
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
Jack Kornfield
The map is not the territory.
Alfred Korzbyski
If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish more.
Brian Koslow
The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.
Brian Koslow
There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.
Tom Krause
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
Henry Kravis
Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.
Krishnamurti
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Krishnamurti
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
Krishnamurti
Joy is something entirely different from pleasure.
Krishnamurti
Learning is movement from moment to moment.
Krishnamurti
Meditation is the action of silence.
Krishnamurti
So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
Krishnamurti
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Krishnamurti
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear – that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Krishnamurti
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson
Happiness is in itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don’t have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn’t matter as much as how you do what you do.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
People are like stained glass windows, the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
Maxine Kumin
The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.
Stanley Kunitz
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
Tuli Kupferberg
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
Harold Kushner
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
Harold Kushner
The happiest people I know are people who don’t even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
Madeleine L’Engle
If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.
Madeleine L’Engle
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
Madeleine L’Engle
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
Madeleine L'Engle
To be born is to start the journey towards death.
Madeleine L’Engle
Angels encourage us by guiding us onto a path that will lead to happiness and hope.
Andy Lakey
I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one's own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.
Dalai Lama
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Charles Lamb
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life – it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life…I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.
Anne Lamott
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
Anne Lamott
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace, only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.
Anne Lamott
Joy is our best make-up.
Anne Lamott
Joy is the best makeup.
Anne Lamott
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
Anne Lamott
This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that catch us off-guard, that break in our small bordered worlds. When this happens everything feels more spacious.
Anne Lamott
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
Anne Lamott
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
Anne Lamott
If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter.
Louis L'Amour
There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Edwin Land
Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs
Ann Landers
Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful
Ann Landers
If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
Frank Lane
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Janet Lane
You will always be your child's favorite toy.
Vicki Lansky
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
Lao Tsu
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
Being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
Lao Tzu
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
Lao Tzu
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu
In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.
Lao Tzu
In the universe, great acts are made up of small deeds.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
No fight: no blame.
Lao Tzu
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao Tzu
One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu
The sage does not collect precious things. He does not hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.
Lao Tzu
There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.
Lao Tzu
To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.
Lao Tzu
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
Lao Tzu
We are all capable of much more than we think we are.
Lao Tzu
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?
Lao Tzu
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Lucy Larcom
I promise myself…to be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind; to talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet; to make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them; to look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true; to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best; to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own; to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future; to wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature I meet; to give so much time to improving myself that I have no time to criticize others; to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble; to think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds; to live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, so long as I am true to the best that is in me.
Christian D. Larson
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Doug Larson
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
Gary Larson
To know and not to do is not yet to know.
Lau Tzu
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. Lawrence
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuition works in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.
D.H. Lawrence
Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.
T.E. Lawrence
It may be those who do most... dream most.
Stephen Leacock
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn’t equate… Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don’t have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don’t mean anything.
Norman Lear
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary
Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
Georgette Leblane
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz
Absorb what is useful, disregard the rest.
Bruce Lee
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
Bruce Lee
Knowing is not enougth, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.
Bruce Lee
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula LeGuin
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone. It has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.
Ursula LeGuin
Rustout is the slow death that follows when we stop making the choices that keep life alive. It’s the feeling of numbness that comes from always taking the safe way, never accepting new challenges, continually surrendering to the day-to-day routine. Rustout means we are no longer growing, but at best, are simply maintaining. It implies that we have traded the sensation of life for the security of a paycheck…Rustout is the opposite of burnout. Burnout is overdoing. Rustout is underbeing.
Richard Leider
Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.
Richard J. Leider
Three keys to success: read, read, read.
Vladimir Lenin
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
John Lennon
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
John Lennon
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
John Lennon
You cannot be mad at someone who makes you laugh – it’s as simple as that.
Jay Leno
People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.
Thomas Leonard
It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.
Harriet Goldhor Lerner
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Max Lerner
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.
Michael Levine
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Theodore Levitt
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
Theodore Levitt
This is your world. Shape it or someone else will.
Gary Lew
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.
C.S. Lewis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But, you learn, by God, you learn.
C.S. Lewis
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
C.S. Lewis
When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.
C. S. Lewis
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
C. S. Lewis
He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.
Robert Ley
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth,
Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That is my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air…but only for one second without hope.
Hal Lindsey
He who hesitates because he feels inferior is being surpassed by he who is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry Link
There is no greater burden than having great potential.
Linus from “Peanuts”
It’s possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
Carolyn Llewellyn
A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.
Kenny Loggins
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.
George Lois
Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
Gardening is a kind of self-prescribed preventative medicine, good for all ills.
Sheryl London
Whether we name divine presence synchronicity, serendipity, or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.
Nancy Long
The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn’t simple.
Doris Janzen Longacre
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry W. Longfellow
The soul…is audible, not visible.
Henry W. Longfellow
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry W. Longfellow
Art is the child of Nature.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
Barry Lopez
It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.
Barry Lopez
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
Bette Bao Lord
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
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
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
Sophia Loren
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
All books are either dreams or swords. You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
James Lowell
In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; a grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.
James Lowell
All God’s angels come to us disguised.
James Russell Lowell
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
James Russell Lowell
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Allard Lowenstein
Compassion is a foundation for sharing our aliveness and building a more humane world.
Martin Lowenthal
Some of life’s biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
Dr. Bernard Lown
Most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.
Sir John Lubbock
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
Sir John Lubbock
You can’t do it unless you imagine it.
George Lucas
There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce
We won't always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What's important is that you do care and you act.
Charlotte Lunsford
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
Rosa Luxemburg
Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have – so spend it wisely.
Kay Lyons
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
There is no security on earth. Only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
Thomas Macaulay
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Harvey Mackay
Frankly, I'm more worried about the violence we do to ourselves and our children by allowing the media to create an expectation of instant gratification.
Hugh Mackay
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.
Shirley MacLaine
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine
You can’t lie when you dance. It’s so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.
Shirley MacLaine
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Madonna
The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow into their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams.
Sidney Madwed
No one is exempt from grief.
Gregory Magiure
When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home.
Ramana Maharshi
Every moment of one's existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Norman Mailer
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.
Maxwell Maltz
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
Realize how good you really are.
Og Mandino
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
We must use the power of our words constructively.
Stella Terrill Mann
A man’s dying is more the survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
A writer is someone for whom writing is harder than for other people.
Thomas Mann
The greatest miracle of all, the human being.
Marya Mannes
A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison S. Marden
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison S. Marden
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison S. Marden
The Creator has not given you a longing to do what you have no ability to do.
Orison S. Marden
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
Orison S. Marden
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
Jeff Marder
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
I will not die an unlived life…I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me…I choose to risk my significance.
Dawna Markova
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason. It is reason –on fire.
Peter Marshall
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
Ralph Marston
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
William Moulton Marston
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
Groucho Marx
Quote me as saying I was misquoted.
Groucho Marx
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate symphony.
Abraham Maslow
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. This need we call self-actualization.
Abraham Maslow
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being…that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth.
Abraham Maslow
Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.
Abraham Maslow
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow
In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it…The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.
Abraham Maslow
The great lesson…is that the sacred in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s back yard.
Abraham Maslow
The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be now why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
Abraham Maslow
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
Abraham Maslow
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow
You were born to be an original. Don’t die a copy.
John Mason
Work for your own soul’s sake.
Edgar Lee Masters
Trust the process of the subtle push toward art and creative expression from inside you – it is the gentle call of your heart and renewed search for soul. It is an opening to expansion of your expressive abilities and the discovery of hidden limitations ready to be challenged. Be open to what it means, it has many possibilities for action in every part of your life. Ultimately it will lead to significant personal changes – to living life in a new way with new tools of creative expression.
Donald William Mathews
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.
David Matthew
Dance has always been a way of accessing the other worlds, especially whirling or spinning.
Caitlin Matthews
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Somerset Maugham
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous. On the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
Somerset Maugham
The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you.
Somerset Maugham
All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain’s fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.
Robert Maurer
As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.
Robert Maurer
Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.
Robert Maurer
Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you’ll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly – but painlessly! – you’ll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change.
Robert Maurer
A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force: I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elaine Maxwell
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
John C. Maxwell
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be our of our comfort zone.
John C. Maxwell
The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.
John C. Maxwell
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
John C. Maxwell
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Rollo May
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.
Rollo May
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Rollo May
Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.
Rollo May
If you do not listen to your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed our community in failing to make your contribution to the whole.
Rollo May
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
Rollo May
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.
Rollo May
We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative experience with intensity of dedication and commitment.
Rollo May
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
Joyce Maynard
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
…the tragedy in life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the starts, but is is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
Benjamin E. Mays
The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.
Harold R. McAlindon
No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
James T. McCay
There is not death! The stars go down to rise upon some other shore, and bright in heaven’s jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.
John L. McCreery
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open – into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire
There is no greater joy, nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.
Mary Rose McGeady
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Mignon McLaughlin
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.
John McLeod
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
Marshall McLuhan
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.
Robert S. McNamara
Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.
Shaun McNiff
The simpler the deeper. We have a way of making things too complicated.
Shawn McNiff
Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
Carson McSullers
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
Peter McWilliams
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humor, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element, belongs to man.
Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message…that our inner self has begun its search for freedom.
Mary Meeker
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
Golda Meir
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing – peace is the measure.
George Melton
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
Mencius
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H.L. Mencken
We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are.
Desire-Joseph Mercier
I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?
Paul Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
Thomas Merton
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
Thomas Merton
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.
Julie Moir Messervy
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
Bill Meyer
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
Paul Meyer
Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.
Paul J. Meyer
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
Ernest Meyers
Without joy in your life you are powerless.
Joyce Meyers
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Duane Michals
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
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.
Michelangelo
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
James Michener
There are only two choices; make progress or make excuses.
Ellen Mikesell
Can you imagine experiencing the world as a great sandbox given for us to play in like we did as children? As we play, we can also open ourselves to the exploration of our edges, always creating new adventures of self-exploration as we let go of old out-dated beliefs about ourselves.
Judith-Annette Milburn
Like every writer, I am asked where my work orginates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
Arthur Miller
Our soul…tries to direct us to individuals who share our purpose in life, complement our strengths, and supplement our weaknesses. But there is no guarantee that these ideal mates are going to look the way we expect, or be of our own background.
Carolyn Miller
Our soulmates seldom appeal to our personality—our ego. That’s why they are called soulmates rather than egomates.
Carolyn Miller
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
Henry Miller
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller
If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having.
Henry Miller
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Henry Miller
Paint as you like and die happy.
Henry Miller
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
We create our fate every day we live.
Henry Miller
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life, not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
John Homer Miller
Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us – through every person and every circumstance.
Dan Millman
I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Dan Millman
There are only two faces to existence – birth and death – and life survives them both, just so sunrise and sunset are not essentially different: it all depends on whether one is facing east or west.
Joy Mills
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A. A. Milne
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
Harry Milner
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
Milton
Give back what you have learned. Share your experience.
Deng Ming-Dao
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
Charles Mingus
We don't try to be 100% better, rather 1% better a hundred ways.
Ann Mitchell
We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it’s creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.
Edgar Mitchell
After all, tomorrow is another day.
Margaret Mitchell
Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
Be a good-finder. Try to catch people red-handed in the act of doing something right.
Bob Moawad
A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.
Phillip Moffitt
A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Mohammed
There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart – pursue those.
Michael Molan
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere
Who are you?’ someone asks. ‘I am the story of my self,’ comes the answer.
M. Scott Momaday
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.
Claude Monet
All of us are stars and deserve the right to twinkle.
Marilyn Monroe
I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe
If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe
If you can't handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.
Marilyn Monroe
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Marilyn Monroe
When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.
Montaigne
We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.
Alfred A. Montapert
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori
Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.
L. M. Montgomery
The heart that gives, gathers.
Marianne Moor
Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.
Beth Moore
Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.
Beth Moore
Talk about meeting your soul mate, ... I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn't some lightweight package. I'm, like, the package that didn't just come with luggage -- I had trunks.
Demi Moore
There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
Henry Moore
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.
Thomas Moore
Family life is full of major and minor crises- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce-and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
Thomas Moore
In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
Hannah More
Millionaires don’t have astrologers, billionaires do.
J.P. Morgan
The mind needs exercise as much as the body does.
John Morgan
Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.
Soko Morinaga
Curiosity is the key to creativity.
Akio Morita
A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.
Tom Morris
The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.
Tom Morris
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to--letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
Toni Morrison
Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.
Toni Morrison
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
Mary Manin Morrissey
One way we can know that we are aligned with the life force that is God is that we feel more and more alive. Notice what gives you aliveness and what diminishes you, deadens and numbs you so that you only skim the surface of life. Begin to say yes to what quickens and energizes, to that which brings joy and gratitude.
Mary Manin Morrissey
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
Mary Manin Morrissey
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world’s children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.
Greg Mortenson
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses
Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
Richard Moss
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
Francoise de Motteville
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
Bill Moyers
Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Mozart
Neither lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love: that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart
Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.
Muhammad
The acquisition of knowledge is a duty incumbent on every Muslim, male and female.
Muhammad
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
John Muir
The sense of community is indispensable…to full self-realization.
Herbert J. Muller
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
Zen has no gates. The purpose of Buddha's words is to enlighten others. Therefore Zen should be gateless. But, how does one pass through the gateless gate?
Mumon
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
Defeat is in your mind…resilience is in your soul.
Keri Murphy
Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.
Elizabeth Murray
Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing.
Kathryn Murray
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
W. H. Murray
There is no way to peace, peace is the way.
A.J. Muste
Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
David S. Muzzey
Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.
Caroline Myss
Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
Caroline Myss
None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage to follow those feelings, since they will force us to change our lives in any case. But consider the consequences of not listening to the heart's guidance: depression, confusion, and the wretched feeling that we are not on our life's true path, but viewing it from a distance.
Caroline Myss
You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
Caroline Myss
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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabakov
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
Rebbe Nachman
The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around…The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
What is creativity? I define creativity as the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing. Innovation is the production or implementation of a creative idea. If you have ideas, but don't act on them, you are imaginative but not creative.
Linda Naiman
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Keshavan Nair
Dance is life. Stillness is love. Together, they are everything.
Debbie Nargi-Brown
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
Ogden Nash
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash
I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
Martina Navratilova
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia Butler
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
Patricia Neal
What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?
Jacob Needleman
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharal Nehru
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Neitzsche
Life! Can't live with it, can't live without it.
Cynthia Nelma
Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.
Paula Nelson
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
Willie Nelson
To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.
Mark Nepo
Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.
Kent Nerburn
Genius is perseverance in disguise.
Mike Newlin
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Isaac Newton
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than any other talent.
Isaac Newton
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
Isaac Newton
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
Isaac Newton
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Josephe R. Newton
That impossible dream you dreamed when you were young but got talked out of, the one you thought you outgrew, might be the key to awakening your genius. That special talent you never followed through on might be an important source of delight, the one you should commit to. That old dream might be the one thing that will bring the magic of meaning to your life.
Mark Victor Hansen & Barbara Nichols
It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch
God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changes, courage to change the things that can be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr
By losing your goal - you have lost your way, too!
Friedrich Nietzsche
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has the why to live can bear with almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‘divine service’.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the true man there is a child concealed – who wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One must still have chaos in him to dance with a shooting star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self; of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.
Friedrich Nietzsche
That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightengale
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightengale
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift – there is nothing small about it.
Florence Nightengale
Everything begins with an idea.
Earl Nightingale
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale
You are, at this moment, standing right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
Earl Nightingale
I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.
Florence Nightingale
One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have.
Leonard Nimoy
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as though you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
Anaïs Nin
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anaïs Nin
I am in a beautiful prison from which I can only escape by writing.
Anaïs Nin
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
Anaïs Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anaïs Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, or tarnishings.
Anaïs Nin
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anaïs Nin
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anaïs Nin
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anaïs Nin
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
Anaïs Nin
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
Kitaro Nishida
True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
Louis Nizer
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
Charles C. Noble
There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…pursue those.
Michael Nolan
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norias
Dreams are illustrations…from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman
Life is easier to take than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris
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.
Christiane Northrup
Your mind is a dangerous neighborhood and you shouldn’t go in there alone at night.
Christiane Northrup
It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are 'heal'.
Ed Northstrum
It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are 'heal.'
Ed Northstrum
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Henri Nouwen
There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.
Novalis
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Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.
Sharon O'Brien
If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around us derives from the fact that we are not living the life we love; rather, we are living the life that is expected of us. We have fallen out of rhythm with the secret signature and light of our own nature.
John O’Donohue
We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams…:
Arthur O’Shaughnessy
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone—its value is incontestable.
Joyce Carol Oates
I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change…I’m asking you to believe in yours.
Barack Obama
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek.
Barack Obama
I think when we spread the wealth around its good for everyone.
Barack Obama
We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals – opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.
Barack Obama
We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Barack Obama
Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we’re all in it together and everybody’s got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can’t solve all our problems – and we don’t want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can’t do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together.
Barack Obama
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Sean O'Casey
All worry is your imagination. Why not use your imagination to explore happier options?
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Baby step by baby step, you have what you need right now to start moving in the direction of your happiest dreams.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Creative action leads to ‘joy attraction’.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Creativity is imagining possibilities and making them real.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Don’t be hypnotized by appearances. What you see with your eyes is colored by your experiences, prejudices and other veils of influence. Whatever you are facing know this: what is happening has the power to bless you now and always.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Joy is your destiny. You were created for joy. Pay attention to what brings you joy and take joyful actions daily. Creative action equals joy attraction. Joy is the path to your true purpose.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Leap! There is nowhere to fall but into the arms of grace.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Living with passion and purpose is about doing what ‘lights you up’ and makes your heart sing. It’s NOT about money. It’s about something much more rare and precious. It’s about shining your light in a way only YOU can do it in this world!
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
No matter how bad things look, you are always being blessed. Ask yourself, ‘What is the blessing here?’ and express gratitude for the awareness that comes to you.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Peace in the world starts with peace in your heart.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Tears are liquid love.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
The dream and the dreamer are always matched. You could not have a dream without the means, right now, to begin it.
Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Stand in awe in the houses of the holy and do not forget your place.
Sarah Ockuly
Nothing gives a man a sense of failure so often as an overdeveloped sense of perfection.
George S. Odiorue
No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.
Hortense Odlum
The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared.
Lloyd John Ogilvie
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
Kenichi Ohmae
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
Kenichi Ohmae
Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.
Janette Oke
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
Ben Okri
To live with an open heart means that pain is no stranger, but wonder will be a constant companion.
David Oldfield
The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
Lane Olinghouse
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Mary Oliver
Joys come from simple and natural things: mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water.
Sigurd F. Olson
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis
The secret of business is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Yoko Ono
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you’re plugged in, a spontaneous combustion occurs that ‘artists’ don’t have a monopoly on.
Judith Orloff
Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.
Suze Orman
When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa.
Suze Orman
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.
Alex Osborn
It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.
Alex Osborne
Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.
Alex Osborne
Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.
Osho
Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you.
Osho
Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated!
Osho
There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.
Mirabel Osler
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
H. A. Overstreet
All things change, but nothing dies.
Ovid
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Ovid
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Cynthia Ozick
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Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives.
Sara Paddison
Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectation that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them.
Sara Paddison
Your inner knowing is your only true compass.
Joy Page
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Satchel Paige
Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.
Satchel Paige
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer
Hook: If I were you, I'd give up! Peter: If you were me…I'd be ugly!
Peter Pan
So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
Peter Pan
Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie Parker
I am leaving this legacy to all of you…to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die – the dream of freedom and peace.
Rosa Parks
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
If you want the rainbow, you’ve got to put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb…and I also know that I'm not a blonde.
Dolly Parton
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
Blaise Pascal
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.
Louis Pasteur
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
Luck favors a mind that is prepared.
Louis Pasteur
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.
Arnold Patent
When we love unconditionally, with our hearts wide open, we feel joyfulness.
Arnold Patent
Don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling
How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
Trina Paulus
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Norman Vincent Peale
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Norman Vincent Peale
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Norman Vincent Peale
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces – and success, instead of eluding him, flows toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself…nothing is impossible!
Norman Vincent Peale
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale
When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.
Norman Vincent Peale
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
It's always too soon to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale
Live your life and forget your age.
Norman Vincent Peale
Find a need and fill it.
Ruth Stafford Peale
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Pearce
True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.
Paul Pearsall
Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
Carol Pearson
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.
M. Scott Peck
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
M. Scott Peck
I value my time. I choose to use it wisely and do not let others steal it from me.
Paula Peisner
If there is any kindness I can show, any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.
William Penn
I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.
Frederick Perls
Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
Ross Perot
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity.
Ross Perot
A spirit of fun should pervade every meeting because it helps people participate and learn.
Gene Perret
May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
Laurence Peter
Don’t believe in miracles – depend on them.
Laurence J. Peter
Encourage each other to become the best you can be. Celebrate what you want to see more of.
Tom Peters
If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.
Tom Peters
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
Tom Peters
To me books on butterflies or baseball are more legitimate in terms of thinking about business strategy issues.
Tom Peters
Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.
Wilfred Peterson
The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillips
Money will come when you are doing the right thing.
Mike Phillips
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.
Wendell Phillips
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Philpotts
All art is subversive.
Pablo Picasso
Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up
Pablo Picasso
Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pierce
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Peace Pilgrim
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig
The only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Gloria Pitzer
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
Everything in life is writable if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.
Sylvia Plath
The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
Plato
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
Do not…keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.
Plato
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Plato
Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.
Plato
Know thyself.
Plato
Knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato
Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to discover the natural bent.
Plato
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaity to life.
Plato
Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.
Plato
Philosophy begins in wonder.
Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Plato
The life which is not examined is not worth living.
Plato
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plato
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allen Poe
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
Henri Poincare
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
Henri Poincare
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
Arthur Polotnik
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
Catherine Ponder
It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.
Catherine Ponder
When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.
Catherine Ponder
He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Poole
He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Karl Popper
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter
The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.
W. Arthur Porter
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
Paula Poundstone
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be amused.
John Powell
You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.
John Powell
Stress is poison.
Agave Powers
I’d rather be happy than right.
Hugh Prather
Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.
Hugh Prather
There is no place love is not.
Hugh Prather
Earth, ourselves, breathe and awaken, leaves are stirring, all things moving, new day coming, life renewing.
Pawnee Prayer
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.
Elvis Presley
Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.
Steven Pressfield
You are not here to save the world but you are here to touch the hands that are within your reach.
Motto of Mission of Love (Kathleen Price)
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
J. B. Priestley
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J. B. Priestly
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Michael Pritchard
You don’t stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
Change always comes bearing gifts.
Price Pritchett
No star is ever lost we once have seen. We always may be what we might have been.
Adelaide Anne Proctor
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Everyone smiles in the same language.
Proverb
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.
Proverb
Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; those who are on the inside wish to get out.
Arabian Proverb
The one who loves you will make you weep.
Argentine proverb
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Chinese Proverb
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Chinese Proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.
Chinese Proverb
If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help others.
Chinese proverb
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Chinese Proverb
When plannnig for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.
Chinese Proverb
When sleeping women wake, mountains move.
Chinese Proverb
To bury grief, plant a seed.
German proverb
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Greek Proverb
He who cannot dance claims the floor is uneven.
Hindu saying
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindu Proverb
To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
Hopi saying
Even a small thorn causes pain.
Irish Proverb
When I count my blessings I count you twice.
Irish Blessing
One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
Japanese proverb
To teach is to learn.
Japanese Proverb
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Japanese proverb
Solvitur ambulando. It is all solved by walking.
Latin Proverb
You are made of stars!
Serbian Proverb
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.
Swedish proverb
The butterfly often forgets it once was a caterpillar.
Swedish Proverb
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
Zen Proverb
Don’t just do something, sit there.
Zen Proverb
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four: If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.
Zen Proverb
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
Zimbabwe Proverb
Good habits, once established, are just as hard to break as are bad habits.
Robert Puller
A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
Grace Pulpit
When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in five years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go.
Catherine Pulsifer
No action, no change. Limited action, limited change. Lots of action, change occurs.
Catherine Pulsifer
Personal action is your pathway to success, even if it is a little bit at a time!
Catherine Pulsifer
We all find ourselves in situations that at times seem hopeless. And, we all have the choice to do nothing or take action.
Catherine Pulsifer
What motivates you to change, to take action? Those who wait to take action until they find themselves in a desperate situation face more difficulties than they need to.
Catherine Pulsifer
You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or you can see the challenge as your call to action.
Catherine Pulsifer
Don't feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them.
Catherine Pulsifer
Goals help focus you on areas in both your personal and professional life that are important and meaningful, rather than being guided by what other people want you to be, do, or accomplish.
Catherine Pulsifer
True joy is that which gives us more energy and makes us feel more alive.
Robert Puryear
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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted how a job can be terrific and torturous.
Anna Quindlen
Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Don Quixote
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Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Harvest the bounty of rich tradition and amazing possibilities.
Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Radmacher
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Plant the seeds of your dreams and weed all the objections out.
Mary Anne Radmacher
See stars in the changing season and dance among them, shining.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is a gift I honor by fully living it.
Mary Anne Radmacher
We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.
Mary Anne Radmacher
When I want friendship defined – I look at my friends.
Mary Anne Radmacher
It’s such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!
Gilda Radner
Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner
Be realistic. Plan for a miracle.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep? How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself?
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
The cover-your-butt mentality of the workplace will get you only so far. The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business--but it's a whole lot more fun, don't you think?
Bill Rancic
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness - not pain or mindless self-indulgence - is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaccable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not quite, the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
Ayn Rand
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Ayn Rand
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Ayn Rand
Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.
G. Randolf
Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.
Karen Ravn
Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake.
Marie Beyon Ray
Ultimately, love is self-approval.
Sondra Ray
A fool wonders, the wise man wanders.
Susan Rea
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Charles Reade
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Scott Reed
Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
Christopher Reeve
When you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve
The greatest success we’ll know is helping OTHERS succeed and grow.
Gregory Scott Reid
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Francesca Reigler
Creativity when not used turns to depression.
Henri Reiman
Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
Rembrandt
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.
Rachel Naomi Remen
We are all born to be a blessing.
Rachel Naomi Remen
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does ont write one page; it writes three hundred.
Jules Renard
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
Jules Renard
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth E. Renkel
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Renoir
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
Mary Lou Retton
It’s not that you won or lost…but how you played the game.
Grantland Rice
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice
It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
Adrienne Rich
We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will not give us peace until we do.
M. C. Richards
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.
M.C. Richards
Think BIG. There are unseen forces ready to support your dreams.
Cheryl Richardson
Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
Rainer Maria Rilke
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The only journey is the journey within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Think of the world you carry within you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating – the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to – you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.
Sogyal Rinpoche
The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.
Hanna Rion
I don’t have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It’s what you do with it that counts.
Martin Ritt
A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.
Anthony Robbins
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Anthony Robbins
As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself.
Anthony Robbins
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Anthony Robbins
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. They only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
Anthony Robbins
Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.
Anthony Robbins
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Anthony Robbins
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins
Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Anthony Robbins
Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Anthony Robbins
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Anthony Robbins
The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.
Anthony Robbins
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
Anthony Robbins
You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully.
Anthony Robbins
The ultimate goal of being ourselves in an authentic way is actually about loving ourselves in a generous way.
Mike Robbins
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.
Tom Robbins
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Tony Robbins
A soul mate is…someone whose way of viewing life is not necessarily the same as yours but complements yours, so that there is not a compromise, there is a complement.
Paul Robear
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
Donna Roberts
You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.
Jane Roberts
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are…your simple presence can make others happy.
Jane Roberts
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
Nora Roberts
Expect a miracle!
Oral Roberts
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
Diana Robinson
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life’s exciting variety, not something to fear.
Gene Roddenberry
I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.
Anita Roddick
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it's about trading: buying and selling.
Anita Roddick
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Dame Anita Roddick
Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.
Auguste Rodin
Patience is also a form of action.
Auguste Rodin
Being, not doing, is my first joy.
Theodore Roethke
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth.
Carl Rogers
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Carl Rogers
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
Carl Rogers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
A good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Carl Rogers
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Dale Evans Rogers
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you have to make choices, and hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
Fred Rogers
Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can’t talk and dance at the same time.
Ginger Rogers
Even if you are on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers
Man only learns two ways, one by reading; and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.
Jim Rohn
Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what’s out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.
Jim Rohn
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Jim Rohn
Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
Jim Rohn
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Rohn
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.
Jim Rohn
One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.
Jim Rohn
The more you care, the stronger you can be.
Jim Rohn
The more you know the less you need to say.
Jim Rohn
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out joy.
Jim Rohn
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can’t get more time.
Jim Rohn
Wealth is not a matter of intelligence; it's a matter of inspiration.
Jim Rohn
Wealth is not a matter of intelligence; it's a matter of inspiration.
Jim Rohn
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Jim Rohn
Words do two major things: they provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim Rohn
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Jim Rohn
You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.
Jim Rohn
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Jim Rohn
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.
Alice Wellington Rollins
If you want to attract a life partner as your soul mate, there are several illusions you will need to relinquish. One is that your soul mate is someone you will be with for the rest of your life. You can have a soul mate relationship that lasts a few weeks, months, or years. Time has nothing to do with the quality of your connection and its importance in your life.
Sanaya Roman
Most people have more than one soul mate. You may already be in several soul mate relationships with friends and loved ones. A soul mate can come in the form of a life partner, treasured friend, child, or lover. A soul mate can be someone with whom you share a spiritual path, a joint work in the world, or a commitment to be parents to certain souls. It can be someone whose growth you are sponsoring, such as a child.
Sanaya Roman
You do not need to be affected by the economy or man-made conditions. You can create your own personal economic environment of prosperity. If you are willing to listen to and take action on your inner guidance, you will do well no matter what the economy around you is doing.
Sanaya Roman
I’ve learned that the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
Andy Rooney
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What you don’t do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt
For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn’t enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it, one must work for it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage, and confidence in every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Franklin Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Get action, do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.
Theodore Roosevelt
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Knowing a lot…is a springboard to creativity.
Charlie Rose
The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.
Marshall Rosenberg
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Diana Ross
If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
Isabella Rossellini
Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.
Gabrielle Roth
If you just set people in motion, they’ll heal themselves.
Gabrielle Roth
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It’s the language of the soul.
Gabrielle Roth
The world of reality has its bounds, the world of imagination is boundless.
Rousseau
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
J. K. Rowling
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling
Love life and life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
To be alive, to able to see, to walk…it’s all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
Arthur Rubinstein
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Wilma Rudolph
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.
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are.
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
And you? When will you begin your long journey into yourself?
Rumi
At night I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me…Breathe into me. Close the language door and open the love window, the moon won’t use the door, only the window.
Rumi
Be a full bucket, pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into the light.
Rumi
Be grateful for whatever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Rumi
Behind every atom of this world, hides an infinite universe.
Rumi
Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.
Rumi
Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.
Rumi
Come, come whoever you are, wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving, it doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times. Come, come yet again, come.
Rumi
Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.
Rumi
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
Rumi
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi
Ever since happiness heard your name, it's been running through the streets trying to find you.
Rumi
Fasting is the first principle of medicine.
Rumi
I want to sing like birds sing, not worrying who listens or what they think
Rumi
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
Rumi
Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
Rumi
Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.
Rumi
No more words. Hear only the voice within.
Rumi
Now be silent. Let the One who creates words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
Rumi
Patience is the key to joy.
Rumi
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!
Rumi
Sell your cleaverness and purchase bewilderment.
Rumi
Sit. Be still. And listen…for you are drunk and we are at the edge of the roof.
Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Rumi
The soul is here for its own joy.
Rumi
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?
Rumi
There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye.
Rumi
To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
Rumi
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
Rumi
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
Rumi
You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.
Rumi
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths!
Rumi
Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.
Rumi
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
Salmon Rushdie
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.
John Ruskin
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
John Ruskin
What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.
Bertrand Russell
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
It’s the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting.
Todd Ruthman
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You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Joe Sabah
When we are enthusiastic we are intoxicated with passion rooted in our true selves and it flows into all we do.
Linda Saccoccio
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
Vita Sackville-West
The brain is like a muscle.When it is in use, we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
You are, by accident of fate, alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet. Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something.
Carl Sagan
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stuffing and unexpected findings of science.
Carl Sagan
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
Carl Sagan
Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.
Sathya Sai Baba
Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!
Sathya Sai Baba
Love one another and help others to rise to higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
Sathya Sai Baba
Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.
Sathya Sai Baba
Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.
Sathya Sai Baba
Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.
Sathya Sai Baba
You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.
Sathya Sai Baba
Your true nature is purity, peace and joy.
Sathya Sai Baba
Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.
Saint Augustine
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Love, and do what you like.
Saint Augustine
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Saint Augustine
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature.
Saint Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Saint Augustine
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint Augustine
Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be understood, as to understand.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Saint Francis of Assisi
What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.
Saint Francis of Assisi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Saint Francis of Assisi
The important thing is not to think much, but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
Saint Theresa of Lisieux
Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact, angels have no religion as we know it…their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on earth.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Great beings come in all shapes and forms. They inspire us to live a noble life.
J. D. Salinger
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man – if man is not enslaved by it.
Jonas Salk
The intuitive mind will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
Jonas Salk
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
George Sand
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
Carl Sandburg
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
If I had my life to live over…I’d dare to make more mistakes next time.
Nadine Sanger
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
George Santayana
If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
Mitsugi Saotome
The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.
Torkom Saraydarin
There is no real and true joy of if that joy is not imbued with love. Love cannot exist without joy.
Torkom Saraydarin
Every time you write, something valuable will occur.
SARK
Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourishes you.
SARK
Plant impossible gardens. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swing set, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Do it for love. Take lots of naps. Take moon baths. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Entertain your inner child. Build a fort with blankets. Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters.
SARK
To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest.
SARK
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
May Sarton
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
May Sarton
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
May Sarton
The best work is not what is most difficult for you: it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.
Sadako Sasaki
Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.
Virginia Satir
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir
We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Diane Sawyer
Each day comes bearing its’ own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Ruth Ann Schabacker
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.
Anne Wilson Schaef
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.
Charles Schaefer
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
Jonathan Schattke
Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.
Rita Schiano
There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us mere accident springs form the deepest source of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller
The spirit of entrepreneurship includes imagination, inventiveness and openness to the new. This spirit of creative response aligns with the capacity to exercise moral imagination and to see ethical problems in a new light. To be sure, our most fundamental ethical values -- values such as honesty, avoiding doing harm, keeping commitments -- are grounded in timeless traditions and are not likely to be soon abandoned. But it is in the application of these ethical values to emerging, unique situations, where moral imagination and the entrepreneurial spirit can make a decisive difference.
David Schmidt
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.
Andrew Schneider
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Serious play is not an oxymoron; it is the essence of innovation.
Michael Schrage
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Robert H. Schuller
Every achiever that I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Robert H. Schuller
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Robert H. Schuller
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert H. Schuller
Every burden is a blessing.
Robert H. Schuller
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
Robert H. Schuller
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Robert H. Schuller
Nobody has a money problem – there are only idea problems.
Robert H. Schuller
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
You will never win if you never begin.
Robert H. Schuller
I realize that idealism is out of sync with the cynicism of our age. Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. In such an atmosphere, why bother aiming high? Far too many people don’t. I just want to reassure people to have the courage to persevere, to keep following their hearts even when others scoff. Don’t be beaten down by naysayers. Don’t let the odds scare you from even trying.
Howard Schultz (CEO Starbucks Coffee)
If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.
Susan Polis Schultz
Joy comes from using your potential.
Will Schultz
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Charles M. Schulz
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
Charles M. Schulz
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Charles M. Schulz
Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.
Charles M. Schulz
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
Charles M. Schulz
Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
Charles M. Schulz
Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz
To dance is to live!
Charles M. Schulz
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts, such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles M. Schwab
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
Albert Schweitzer
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
Let me give you the definition of ethics: it is good to maintain life and to further life. It is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
Albert Schweitzer
Our inner happiness depends not on what we experience, but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.
Albert Schweitzer
Sometimes our light goes out but is brought into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Albert Schweitzer
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
C.C. Scott
Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
Sir Walter Scott
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
Sir Walter Scott
Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida D. Scudder
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
Steven Seagal
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Chief Seathl
Live simply that others may simply live.
Elizabeth Seaton
The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.
“The Secret”
Those who speak most of illness, have illness; those who speak most of prosperity have it, etc.
The Secret
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
Bernie Siegel
There is no such thing as Fun for the whole family.
Jerry Seinfeld
You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.
Kathy Seligman
To grow as a writer, you grow as a person. There's no way to work on one without the other.
Heather Sellers
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them as you think you should and half the amount of money.
Esther Selsdon
It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Hans Selye
If you would judge, understand.
Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy – that he live in accordance with his own nature.
Seneca
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short if one follows patterns.
Seneca
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
Seneca
What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Seneca
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
Seneca
We are often more frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.
Hannah Senesh
All great things have small beginnings.
Peter Senge
People don't resist change. They resist being changed.
Peter Senge
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Dr. Seuss
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
Dr. Seuss
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Dr. Seuss
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Dr. Seuss
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
Dr. Seuss
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.
Dr. Seuss
Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.
Dr. Seuss
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Dr. Seuss
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the only one who'll decide where you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.
Merle Shain
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Merle Shain
Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.
Merle Shain
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare
Grief makes one hour ten.
William Shakespeare
Love sees not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
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
When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, but in battalions!
William Shakespeare
And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
This, too, shall pass.
William Shakespeare
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
William Shakespeare
Enlightenment is the journey back from the head to the heart.
Ravi Shankar
Enlightenment is very possible for the ordinary individual. Actually, it is easier than for someone who thinks that they are special.
Ravi Shankar
Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine—a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come…believe in them. They reflect your true nature.
Ravi Shankar
Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose.
Robin Sharma
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
Robin Sharma
Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.
Katherine Sharp
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
George Bernard Shaw
Our worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them
George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
The problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.
George Bernard Shaw
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
George Bernard Shaw
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn’t want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.
Luci Shaw
Creativity is…seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
Michele Shea
Simply having children does not make mothers.
John A. Shedd
Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
Gail Sheehy
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheely
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelly
Peace, peace! He is not dead, he doth not sleep – he hath awakened from the dream of life.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.
Barbara Sher
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that on one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
Barbara Sher
Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
Barbara Sher
Go out and make a difference in your community. You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
Barbara Sher
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones are not.
Barbara Sher
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Barbara Sher
Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
Barbara Sher
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher
The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
Barbara Sher
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
Barbara Sher
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
Barbara Sher
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
Barbara Sher
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
Barbara Sher
You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
Barbara Sher
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher
Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything.
Gail Sher
We all seek soul. While soul is always present, it doesn’t appear in our lives automatically. Soul requires our attention and reflection. Offering our respectful regard to the soul is a way of loving it, caring for it, nurturing it.
Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson
All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace.
Florence Scovel Shinn
All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Giving opens the way for receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.
Florence Scovel Shinn
If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he had prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Never argue with a hunch.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Your word is your wand.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Everybody has a strength to share. If we can tap into that – if people can find ways to contribute whatever their particular unique talent or gift is, then, that really can change the world.
Bill Shore
If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
Bernie Siegel
Research shows that 90%t of 5 year olds are creative, but only 2% of adults are.
Lee Silber
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Beverly Sills
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you’re doomed if you don’t try.
Beverly Sills
Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibilities, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me …Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.
Alan Simpson
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment
Marsha Sinetar
Do what you love and the money will follow.
Marsha Sinetar
The significant business of your life is alive and well, awaiting discovery, within your very own soul. You and I were born to come into ourselves as complete and distinctive persons. Accepting this, we build a valuable life.
Marsha Sinetar
The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is no truth. Only points of view.
Dame Edith Sitwell
We must trust our soul's noncallings as well as its callings. Destiny seems to have very specific ideas about what each of us should be doing on the planet, and our greatest personal fulfillment always lies in those directions and none other.
Dianne Skafte
I live by this credo: Have a little laugh and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough.
Red Skelton
The joy comes when we recognize that whatever situation we may find ourselves in, it’s only a role we are playing.
Jean Slatter
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
Ruth Smeltzer
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith
Look at everything as if you were seeing it either for the first or last time.
Betty Smith
To be courageous means to be afraid but to go a little step forward anyway.
Beverly Smith
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
Liz Smith
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
Logan Pearsall Smith
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
Margaret Chase Smith
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.
Sydney Smith
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.
Will Smith
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
Zadie Smith
If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.
Carrie Snow
The longer the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph Sockman
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates
Wisdom begins with wonder. Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates
The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance and does not object to sharing.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Every day a little death.
Stephen Sondheim
The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.
Susan Sontag
Chance never helps those who don’t help themselves.
Sophocles
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
Sophocles
Look and you will find it-what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
William Saroyan
You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.
Scott Sorrell
Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
John Philip Souza
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks
To freely bloom - that is my definition | 
