the light in a way that is unique and beautiful

subtlety by Tanya Davis

2011-06-16T13:54:00.000-07:00

more quotes

2011-06-16T13:10:00.000-07:00

the finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race ~ susan st. james

i wanted a perfect ending. now i learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and 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 is going to happen next. delicious ambiguity. ~ gilda radner

most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine. ~ ralph waldo emerson

twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the ones you did do. so throw off the bowliens. catch the trade winds in your sails. explore. dream. discover. ~ mark twain

without patience we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. ~ maya angelou

time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted time. ~ john lennon

whatever you are, be a good one. ~ abe lincoln

for a long time she only flew when she thought no one else was watching. ~ story people

it's the little things you do that make big things happen. ~ unknown

it isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts. ~ ella fitzgerald

be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every year find you a new (wo)man. ~ ben franklin

a longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul. ~ proverbs 13:19

dream lofty dreams. and as you dream, so shall you become. your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be, your idea is the prophesy of what you shall at last unveil. ~ james allen

the only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you left behind. ~ john allston

don't compromise yourself - you're all you've got. ~ janis joplin

and now we welcome the new year - full of things that have never been seen. ~ rilke

when you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. ~ buddha

when nothing goes right, turn left. ~ unknown

the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is a little something "extra". ~ jimmy johnson

don't judge each day by what you harvest but by the seeds you've planted. ~ robert louis stevenson

it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. ~ laura ingalls wilder

courage is to never let your actions be influenced by your fears. ~ arthur koestler

do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~ theodore roosevelt

don't get your knickers in a knot, it never solves anything and you just walk funny. ~ kathryn carpenter

creativity takes courage. ~ matisse

too many over value what they are not and under value what they are. ~ malcolm forbes

we have forty million reasons but not a single excuse. ~ unknown

never mistake kindness for weakness. ~ unknown

if you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worse kind of heart trouble. ~ bob hope

memories are the treasures we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely. ~ becky aligada

who by worrying can add a single hour to his(her) life? matthew 6:27

we can only be said to be alive in those moments where our heart is conscious of our treasures. ~ thornton wilder

collector of words part two

2010-09-10T09:56:00.000-07:00

"Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice."
~Cornelia Funke

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise
than what it might appear to others
that what you were or might have been
was not otherwise then what you had been
would have appeared to them
to be otherwise."
~Lewis Carroll

To be nobody but yourself
in a world which is doing its best,
night and day to make you everybody else
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being could fight;
and keep fighting.
~ E. E. Cummings

"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

"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."
~Joseph Priestley

"Why isn't my life like a situation comedy?
Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do
but drop by and instigate wacky adventures?
Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms?
Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern
for my well being when I have problems? ...
I gotta get my life some writers."
~ Calvin & Hobbes, Watterson

"Art, after all, is about
rearranging us,
creating surprising
juxtapositions,
emotional openings,
startling presences,
flight paths to the
eternal."
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
& Benjamin Zander

"Really great people
make you feel
that you, too,
can become great."
~ Mark Twain

"All things appear and
disappear because of the
concurrence of causes and
conditions. Nothing ever
exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation
to everything else."
~ Buddha

"Creativity is allowing
yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing
which ones to keep."
~ Scott Adams

"I laugh, I love, I hope,
I try, I hurt, I need,
I fear, I cry. And I know
you do the same things too.
So we're really not thatdifferent, me and you."
~ Colin Raye

"They may forget
what you said,
but they will never
forget how you
made them feel."
~ Carl W. Beuchner

"There are all kinds of
love in this world,
but never the
same love twice."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A strong positive mental
attitude will create more
miracles than any
wonder drug."
~ Patricia Neal

"Flatter me, and I
may not believe you,
criticize me, and I
may not like you,
ignore me, and I
may not forgive you,
encourage me, and I
will not forget you,
love me, and I
may be forced
to love you."
~ William Arthur Ward

"The opposite of play
is not work,it's depression."
~ Brian Sutton-Smith

"The highest result
of education is
tolerance."
~ Helen Keller

"Between stimulus and
response there is space.
In that space is our
choice of a response.
In our response lies
our freedom and our growth."
~ Viktor Frankl

"Examine your own heart and mind.
I am merely a mirror in which you
are looking at yourself."
~ J. Krishnamurti

"Love is,
above all,
the gift of oneself."
~ Jean Anouilh

"The secret of genius
is to carry the spirit
of the child into old age,
which means never losing
your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley

"Love one another
and you will be happy.
It's as simple and as difficult as that."
~ Michael Leunig

"It is human nature
to think wisely
and act in an absurd fashion."
~ Anatole France

In the middle of difficulty
lies opportunity.
~Albert Einstein

"I only went out for a walk
and finally concluded
to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found,
was really going in."
~ John Muir

"What would we have to
hold in compassion
to be at peace right now?
What would we have to
let go of to be at peace
right now?"
~ Jack Kornfield

"Maybe
you're searching
among branches
for what only appears
in the roots."
~ Rumi

"Your daily life
is your templeand your religion.
When you enter into it
take with you your all."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"In the practice
of tolerance,
one's enemy
is the best teacher."
~ Dalai Lama

"It is the mark of an
educated mind to be
able to entertain a
thought without
accepting it."
~ Aristotle

"I close my eyes
in order to see."
~ Paul Gauguin

"Gratitude
is the best attitude."
~ Author Unknown

"When eating bamboo sprouts,
remember the man
who planted them."
~ Chinese Proverb

"Love is the only
sane and satisfactory
answer to the problem
of human existence."
~ Eric Fromm

"The art of love...
is largely the
art of persistence."
~ Albert Ellis

"(Sometimes) it's a form of love
just to talk to somebody
that you have nothing
in common with and
still be fascinated
by their presence."
~ David Byrne

"We waste time looking
for the perfect lover,
instead of creating
the perfect love."
~ Tom Robbins

"Love is my religion -
I could die for it."
~ John Keats

"Courage is the discovery
that you may not win,
and trying when
you know you can lose."
~ Tom Krause

"My religion is nature.
That's what arouses
those feelings of
wonder and mysticism
and gratitude in me."
~ Oliver W. Sacks

"The greatest discovery
of my generation is
that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitudes
of mind."
~ William James

"Everything has its
wonders, even darkness
and silence, and I learn
whatever state I am in,
therein to be content."
~ Helen Keller

“Grace is the kindling of the heart
and the illuminating of the mind."
~ John S. Dunne

“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

“When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing.”
A Course in Miracles

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.”
Michael Altshuler

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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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“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

“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

“Dancing is the body made poetic.”
Ernst 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

“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

“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)

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Genius is childhood recovered at will.”
Charles 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

“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.”
Melodie Beattie

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.”
Warren Bennis

“Miracles happen to those who believe in them.”
Bernhard Berenson

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
Ingrid Bergman

“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

“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

“If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.”
Orlando Bloom

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”
Anthony Brandt

“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

“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

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“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

“When people don’t believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.”
Pierce Brosnan

“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

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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 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

“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

“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

“By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.”
George 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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
G. K. Chesterton

“There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.”
G. K. Chesterton

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“Life is nothing without friendship.”
Cicero

“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”
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 believe the idea that things cannot be changed.”
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

“Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.”
James Freeman Clarke

“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

“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.”
Paul Coelho

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
Paulo Coelho

“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

“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

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"No daring is fatal.
The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring,
in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support."
Rene Crevel

"I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off,
I'd rather be doing something I really wanted to do. I'd walk it again."
Georgia O'Keefe

"What makes for great art
is the courage to speak and write and paint
what you know and care about."
Audrey Flack

All one can do is to achieve nakedness,
to be what one is
with all one's faculties and perceptions,
strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire,
And then to stand before the judgement of time."
Stephen Spender

The place where I had freedom most
was when I painted.
I was completely and utterly myself.

It was more than a profession.
It was even a therapy,
for there I just told it as it was.

It takes a lot of courage in life
to tell it how it is."
Alice Neel

"Creative action plays with the unknown.
But as the child fears the dark,
full of big dogs and mental monsters
formed from fantasies,

the adult child will be fearful too,
faced with the dark world of the unknown mind,
with vast concepts looking enormous
just beyond the front yard.

Peering out, he sees no parents
in the darkness of that land
where he has never been.

The unknown is uncontrolled,
no strategies exist that will enclose
the endless territory of the new.

Only trust in yourself and in this world
can carry you past the watchdogs of your fears
and out of the iron gates of the already-known."
Arthur Deikman

What has to be given up
is not the I, as most mystics suppose:
this I is indispensable for any relationship,
including the highest,
which always presupposes an I and You.

What has to be given up is not the I
but that drive for self-affirmation
which impels man to flee
from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting,
unpredictable, dangerous world of relation
into the having of things."
Martin Buber

What is to give light must endure burning.
Viktor Frankl

"the artist lives in an atmosphere
of perpetual failure."
Harry Crews

"This fundamental truth of the self can be realised only if the individual is willing and courageous enougn to follow to some natural conclusion this moment of experience,
this facing the unknown and participating with the total committment of the self.

Such expresison, such passion for life
may emerge in written, spoken, graphic
or asethetic forms in relation or in isolation;
in I-Thou enounters; and in silent, inner experience.

A compassionate willingess is required -
as is the courage to live before the fact,
before the understanding,
before any rational support or certainty,
to live the moment to its natual peak and conclusion,
and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief,
misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs."
Clark Moustakas

"Creation
happens to us, burns into us, changes us,
we tremble and swoon, we submit.
Creation - we participate in it,
we encounter the creator,
offer ourselves to him,
helpers and companions."
Martin Buber

"The act of writing
bears something in common
with the act of love.

The writer,
at this most productive moment,
just flows.

He gives of that which is uniquely himself,
he makes himself naked.
Recording his nakedness in the written word.

Herein lies some of the terror
which frequently
freezes a writer.
"Sidney M. Jourard

"The outside wold pressures you into a mold,
but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life.
Call it gambling.

You know when I decided to become prefessional -
that means to expose yourself naked to the world
with the other creative minds,

I said, "I'm going into areas I don't know.
I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself."

And I said, "Well, who cares?
I'd rather do it and see what it's all about."
I don't want the safe way.
The safe way limits you."
Louise Nevelson

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

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work." -Rita Mae Brown

If you keep following your own footprints, you will end up where you began, but if you stretch yourself your artwork will flourish. ~Donna Baspaly

Art is a step in the Known toward the unknown. -Kahlil Gibran

The call to create is a calling like no other, a voice within that howls for expression, shadow longing to merge with light. ~Jan Phillips

Creativity is a mindset, an attitude. Regardless of how we feel - low or high or in between - creativity is always there. ~Nikki Coulombe

When we open the channel of creativity we invite the flow of a greater power in and through our lives. - Dana Lynne Andersen

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, because the world needs people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

Creativity is an essential part of being human, a vital force without which we can exist, but not truly live. ~Ann Cashman

"Art, after all, is about
rearranging us,
creating surprising
juxtapositions,
emotional openings,
startling presences,
flight paths to the
eternal."
~ Rosamund Stone Zander
& Benjamin Zander

"Really great people
make you feel
that you, too,
can become great."
~ Mark Twain

"All things appear and
disappear because of the
concurrence of causes and
conditions. Nothing ever
exists entirely alone;
everything is in relation
to everything else."
~ Buddha

"Creativity is allowing
yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing
which ones to keep."
~ Scott Adams

"I laugh, I love, I hope,
I try, I hurt, I need,
I fear, I cry. And I know
you do the same things too.
So we're really not thatdifferent, me and you."
~ Colin Raye

"They may forget
what you said,
but they will never
forget how you
made them feel."
~ Carl W. Beuchner

"There are all kinds of
love in this world,
but never the
same love twice."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A strong positive mental
attitude will create more
miracles than any
wonder drug."
~ Patricia Neal

"Flatter me, and I
may not believe you,
criticize me, and I
may not like you,
ignore me, and I
may not forgive you,
encourage me, and I
will not forget you,
love me, and I
may be forced
to love you."
~ William Arthur Ward

"The opposite of play
is not work,it's depression."
~ Brian Sutton-Smith

"The highest result
of education is
tolerance."
~ Helen Keller

"Between stimulus and
response there is space.
In that space is our
choice of a response.
In our response lies
our freedom and our growth."
~ Viktor Frankl

"Examine your own heart and mind.
I am merely a mirror in which you
are looking at yourself."
~ J. Krishnamurti

"Love is,
above all,
the gift of oneself."
~ Jean Anouilh

"The secret of genius
is to carry the spirit
of the child into old age,
which means never losing
your enthusiasm."
~ Aldous Huxley

"Love one another
and you will be happy.
It's as simple and as difficult as that."
~ Michael Leunig

"It is human nature
to think wisely
and act in an absurd fashion."
~ Anatole France

In the middle of difficulty
lies opportunity.
~Albert Einstein

"I only went out for a walk
and finally concluded
to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found,
was really going in."
~ John Muir

"What would we have to
hold in compassion
to be at peace right now?
What would we have to
let go of to be at peace
right now?"
~ Jack Kornfield

"Maybe
you're searching
among branches
for what only appears
in the roots."
~ Rumi

"Your daily life
is your templeand your religion.
When you enter into it
take with you your all."
~ Kahlil Gibran

"In the practice
of tolerance,
one's enemy
is the best teacher."
~ Dalai Lama

"It is the mark of an
educated mind to be
able to entertain a
thought without
accepting it."
~ Aristotle

"I close my eyes
in order to see."
~ Paul Gauguin

"Gratitude
is the best attitude."
~ Author Unknown

"When eating bamboo sprouts,
remember the man
who planted them."
~ Chinese Proverb

"Love is the only
sane and satisfactory
answer to the problem
of human existence."
~ Eric Fromm

"The art of love...
is largely the
art of persistence."
~ Albert Ellis

"(Sometimes) it's a form of love
just to talk to somebody
that you have nothing
in common with and
still be fascinated
by their presence."
~ David Byrne

"We waste time looking
for the perfect lover,
instead of creating
the perfect love."
~ Tom Robbins

"Love is my religion -
I could die for it."
~ John Keats

"Courage is the discovery
that you may not win,
and trying when
you know you can lose."
~ Tom Krause

"My religion is nature.
That's what arouses
those feelings of
wonder and mysticism
and gratitude in me."
~ Oliver W. Sacks

"The greatest discovery
of my generation is
that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitudes
of mind."
~ William James

"Everything has its
wonders, even darkness
and silence, and I learn
whatever state I am in,
therein to be content."
~ Helen Keller

“Grace is the kindling of the heart
and the illuminating of the mind."
~ John S. Dunne

tools for my spiritual path

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