Sunday, February 25, 2007

Batch 16

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world. - Louise Hay

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. - Jack London

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God. - Ram Dass

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

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art. - Allen Bloom

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world. - The Buddha

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it. - Vince Lombardi

Terrorism. Economic uncertainty. Mistrust of government. We live in a time of tremendous uncertainty, when we are called upon in every way to find peace. We cannot find peace on the planet until we find it within ourselves, a peace that we express in our families and workplaces and hometowns. It is within each of us we begin the process of peace that then becomes what Jesus described as a peace that surpasses understanding. This is the kind of peace which enables us to feel secure despite insecure circumstances, to mourn loss while knowing there is evidence of a Higher Power among us. Peace then, begins and ends in our own hearts and minds. How might you reach out in peace today? - Mary Manin Morrissey

Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. - Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

People with high levels of personal mastery do not set out to integrate reason and intuition. Rather, they achieve it naturally-as a by-product of their commitment to use all the resources at their disposal. They cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye. - Peter Senge

Albert Schweitzer likened a disease in central Africa called 'sleeping sickness'" - what we call narcolepsy - to a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that it sneaks up on you. Schweitzer wrote: "As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain aliveness, of longing, of enthusiasm, of zest, of zeal, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul withers and suffers if you live superficially." By contrast, zest and enthusiasm is our soul's signal to us that we're in touch. So ask yourself, "How alive do I feel? Am I full of enthusiasm or have I lost my zest for living?" We all have the capacity to awaken from slumber to greater aliveness. - Mary Manin Morrissey

The solution to our physical problems of the environment, of hunger, poverty, and injustice will be resolved through experiencing ourselves as one.....cannot be resolved by linear, materialistic means alone. - Barbara Marx Hubbard in "For the Love of God"

The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. - W. Russell Bowie

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. - John Stuart Mill

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God. - William Law

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. - Harold B. Melchart

The Talmud says, "Every blade of grass has an angel leaning over it, whispering, 'Grow, grow, grow.'" We are not meant to stagnate. We are not meant to repeat the life we've already experienced. There is a voice whispering to us, "Grow! Become all that you can be. Your life is just beginning." - Mary Manin Morrissey

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese proverb

The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings. - The Dalai Lama

We are cocreators, and it takes a great deal of strength and work to be a conscious cocreator. To choose God's way, the way of peace, in the midst of adversity takes incredible strength and points us to the source of strength-unlimited love. - Bernie Siegel in New Thought for a New Millennium

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it, and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more. - George Macdonald

The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one. - Anthony de Mello in "The Heart of the Enlightened"

When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them. - Meredith L. Young-Sowers

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. - La Bruyere

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself. - Wang Yang-Ming

Most people don't really need advice. They just need support and discipline in doing what they already know works. - Marianne Williamson

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught! - Thomas A. Kempis

It's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the doing-that's compassion in action. - Mother Teresa

There is a point of no return when we make a non-negotiable choice between fear and Love. When fear is screaming loud in our lives, we can ask, "What would Love do here?" We can say, "I'm going to trust God more than my fear, I'm going to trust Source more than what is in the world." That's how the pattern of our lives is confronted, the pattern of limitation, of littleness, of looking to the ego as our guiding light instead of God. There's a point where we finally say, "I choose Love." And then we open up to an experience of such Divine companionship and closeness, that God's promise, "I will be with you," is not something we know about, it's something that we simply know. - Mary Manin Morrissey

You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end - which you can never afford to lose - with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be. - James Stockdale

Just turn toward God. That's all. Adjust your attention upward. Steer your heart's movement towards That which is Divine. That is enough. - Marsha Sinetar

We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now. - Peter Russell

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. – Plato

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. - Nicholas Murray Butler

It may be that each individual consciousness is a brain cell in a universal mind. - Sir James Jeans

One chief idea of my life . . . is the idea of taking things with gratitude and not taking things for granted. - G. K. Chesterton quoted in "Celebrate Your Child" by Richard Carlson

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God: and so there's no room left for worry thoughts. - Howard Chandler Christy

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts. - Anatole France

For me, faith is another word for positive thinking. When real faith grips you, you develop a mind-set that looks for the best in everything, refuses to give up, finds a way around (or through) every obstacle, and presses on to victory. Such faith is the consequence of "pouring down inside yourself" the great truths of the Bible and thus being triumphant in human experience. - Norman Vincent Peale, My Favorite Quotations

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. - Thornton Wilder

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life. - Sir William Osler

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in." - Washington Gladden

To go against one's conscience is neither safe nor right. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. - Martin Luther

The biblical story of The Good Samaritan ends by imploring us to action: "So go and do." Sometimes, when we're facing a challenge, it's easier to postpone, or push away or stay plain paralyzed by fear. But when you "go and do" - that is, take action, perform an act of kindness, attempt to reconcile a relationship, offer compassion to someone in need - you move into a field of connection where possibilities abound. For today, resolve to stop focusing on your trouble and lift someone else instead. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. - Joseph Addison

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination. - Mahatma Gandhi

Mindfulness refers to keeping one's consciousness alive to the present reality. It is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves. - Thich Nhat Hanh

If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them. - Francis Bacon

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James

The body should be studied not only by those who wish to be doctors but by those who wish to attain a more intimate knowledge of God. - Al-Ghaz quoted in "No Enemies Within" by Dawna Markova

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is best after all. - Benjamin Spock

Our breath is the bridge from our body to our mind. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Master Tung Kwo asked Chuang: "Show me where the Tao is to be found." Chang Tzu replied, "There is nowhere it is not to be found." - The Way of Chuang Tzu

He can do more for others who has done most with himself. - S.D. Gordon

A smile blossoms, evoking smiles that flower in their return. - Philip Kapleau in "Straight to the Heart of Zen"

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them. - Jack Kornfield

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. - David Seabury

The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them. - Jack Kornfield

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. - Samuel Butler

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders. - George P. Burnham

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act upon them? – Buddha

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. - Washington Irving

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. - Joseph Joubert

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. - Elie Wiesel

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs. - Francois Fenelon

Thus, ultimately to try to escape a distress merely perpetuates that distress. What is so upsetting is not the distress itself, but our attachment to that distress. We identify with it, and that alone is the real difficulty. - Ken Wilber

For me, God is personal in the sense that He affects every individual differently. The rabbis of the Midrash said, 'God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes but everyone who looks at it sees a different face.' - Harold Kushner

Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - James Buckham

Deep down we must have real affection for each other, a clear realization or recognition of our shared human status. At the same time, we must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient. - The Dalai Lama

If you want a miracle in your life, put it into words. Speak it to at least one other person. Write it down, in present tense and with positive intention. If you state, "I want to be free from my pain and trouble," you're writing about pain and trouble. Write instead what you desire: to be a loving parent, or partner, to make a difference through work that you do. Allow your ideas and prayers to lay claim to the ground where you desire to stand. - Mary Manin Morrissey

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process. - Phillips Brooks

God is in the prepositions - beyond, among, within, beneath. - Sharon Daloz Parks quoted in "Plain Living" by Catherine Whitmire

When I meet new people, in my mind there is no barrier, no curtain. As human beings you are my brothers and sisters; there is no difference in substance. I can talk with you as I would to old friends. With this feeling we can communicate without any difficulty and can make heart-to-heart contact. Based on such genuine human relations-real feeling for each other, understanding each other-we can develop mutual trust and respect. From that, we can share other people's suffering and build harmony in human society. - The Dalai Lama

I feel that my mission is, wherever I am, to express my feeling about the importance of kindness, compassion, and the true sense of brotherhood. I practice these things. It gives me more happiness, more success. If I practiced anger or jealousy or bitterness, no doubt my smile would disappear. - The Dalai Lama

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a God! - William Shakespeare

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, No hands but yours, no feet but yours, Yours are the eyes through which is to look out Christ's compassion to the world; Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good; Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now. - St. Teresa of Avila, Essential Spirituality, by Roger Walsh

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. - Thomas Carlyle

Self-knowledge is the shortest road to the knowledge of God. - Islamic Sage

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week. - Charles Darwin

He can do more for others who has done most with himself. - S.D. Gordon

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard. - Theodore Roosevelt

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God. - Albert Einstein

People are of differing spiritual temperaments and therefore will approach God in different way. - Huston Smith

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. – Epictetus

To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. - A.H. Almaas

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. - Dr. Benjamin Spock

We must continue to remind ourselves that in a free society all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible. - Abraham Joshua Heschel quoted in "The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook" edited by Stuart Matlins

We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action. - Mother Teresa

My motto was to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging. - Hank Aaron

A blessing is the passing of spirit between us. It's a slash in the flesh of the ego so that the blood of the soul may be exchanged and we may become life brothers and life sisters. - David Spangler in "Blessing: The Art and the Practice"

To me, God and compassion are one and the same. Compassion is the joy of sharing. It's doing small things for the love of each other-just a smile, or carrying a bucket of water, or showing some simple kindness. These are the small things that make up compassion. - Mother Teresa

We tend to make courage too dramatic. Courage is often doing something simple, unpleasant, or boring again and again until we get it down pat. People who are physically challenged and who have the determination to get around their handicaps are great examples because their courage makes them test their limits every day. - Dave Thomas, founder of Wendys

Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured. - Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Faith is the supreme affirmation. It is the unconditioned affirmative. It is the affirmation that makes all things possible to the one who believes in the Power of God. - Ernest Holmes, This Thing Called Life

The nature of a miracle is this: You can have anything you are willing to become. You cannot have loving relationships unless you are loving. You cannot have prosperity until you establish a pattern of giving. Engage the miracle you want to bring forth in your life. Move toward it, and the universe responds in kind. - Mary Manin Morrissey

The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear. - Ernest Holmes, This Thing Called Life

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. - Horace 65-8 B.C.

The 'how' of teaching children what we really hope they will learn is astonishingly simple: We must learn to BE - to live - the way we want them to be. We must begin to find out who we really are beneath the social conditioning we have lived with all of our lives. - Cheri Huber and Melinda Guyol, Time-Out for Parents

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. - Arab proverb

Wisdom comes alone through suffering. - Aeschylus 525-456 BC

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn vos Savant 1946-NA

If we live fully in the present moment, the mysteries of yesterday will gradually be unraveled for us. - Caroline Myss, PH.D., Anatomy of the Spirit

Change - real change - comes from the inside out. It doesn't come from hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior with quick fix personality ethic techniques. It comes from striking at the root - the fabric of our thought, the fundamental, essential paradigm, which give definition to our character and create the lens through which we see the world. - Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets. - Genoese Proverb

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain 1835-1910

Positive mental energy, positive thinking, does not mean we think unrealistically or revert to denial. If we don't like something, we respect our own opinion. If we spot a problem, we're honest about it. If something isn't working out, we accept reality. But we don't dwell on the negative parts of our experience. Whatever we give energy to, we empower. - Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting go

Anything that can happen to a human being may happen to me, and I accept the truth of this. - Bo Lozoff in "It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice"

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem. - Samuel Johnson

Resisting or repressing thoughts and feelings does not change us or turn us into the person we want to be or think we should be. It puts us in resistance to reality. It makes us repressed. Eventually, it makes us depressed. Acceptance turns us into the person we are and want to be. Acceptance empowers the events and circumstances to turn around for the better. - Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go

The person who fears life gets but little pleasure from living. - Ernest Holmes, This Thing Called Life

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. - Vi Putnam

Never limit your view of life by any past experience. - Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind

The universal human journey is one of becoming conscious of our power and how to use that power. Becoming conscious of the responsibility inherent in the power of choice represents the core of this journey. - Caroline Myss, PH.D., Anatomy of the Spirit

To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. - George Santayana

Spiritual instruction teaches us to keep our focus on ourselves - not in an egocentric way but as a way of consciously managing our energy and power. So, your task is to learn what rather than who draws power from you. - Caroline Myss, PH.D., Anatomy of the Spirit

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. - Beverly Sills

Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. - Eleanor Porter

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. - Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge .. is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness. - Caroline Myss, PH.D., Anatomy of the Spirit

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you'll never walk alone. - Audrey Hepburn

Individuals can affect the world by becoming a model or an example in their small circle of influence. Just as a rock thrown into a pond causes ripples to gradually keep going out until eventually they are very small, so our acts influence the ecology of the entire human race. - Stephen R. Covey, in Handbook for the Heart

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. - Ann Landers

If perceptions lead to behaviors, can our thoughts bring love into our lives? Absolutely. I know for a fact that we can make the choice to love, that we can make that choice come alive, and that it's sustainable, renewable, and ever-deepening. - Barry Neil Kaufman, in Handbook for the Heart

The more you notice the love, the miracles, and the beauty around you, the more love comes into your life. The more you love, the greater your ability to love. And the process perpetuates itself. As you love the world and the people in it, you find this love manifests itself and returns to you. - Betty Eadie, in Handbook for the Heart

In life and in love, there is only that moment, the now. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive. - Leo Buscaglia, in Handbook for the Heart

The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves. - Edwin Bearss, Civil War Historian

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others. - Arthur Schopenhauer

On our own, we are small. Connected to our Source, we have power we cannot even fathom. What, on a daily basis, might you do to awaken the power that indwells you? - Mary Manin Morrissey

There is no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone-which is not, in some form or degree, in every heart. - George Macdonald, in Handbook for the Heart

There are times we do not feel connected to God. Separation occurs when we take care of our own perceived needs at somebody else's expense, or blame someone for our troubles. Our Creator is without judgment; thus, we remove ourselves from our authority as children of God when we think in ways unlike our Creator. For today, consider one thought or behavior that is keeping you separate, and replace it with Love. Notice how re-establishing your connection melts away fear, loneliness and the need to blame. - Mary Manin Morrissey

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. - Lawrence of Arabia

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself... and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. - Shirley MacLaine

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. - E. Merrill Root

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller

The fastest way to know God is to serve the God in someone else. - Peter Reinhart in "Bread Upon the Waters"

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of person we are, and we change the kind of world we live in. - Rabbi Harold Kushner, in Handbook for the Heart

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind with a tender heart. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Indeed love heals, but being loved does not. Being loved merely holds the door open for healing, for happiness, for fulfillment, for 'getting our needs met.' But to walk through that door, we must love. If being loved healed, all creatures great and small would now be perfect, for God has loved them all and always will. - Hugh and Gayle Prather, in Handbook for the Heart

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. - Robert Schuller

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter. - Matthew Fox, in Handbook for the Soul

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. - Brian Tracy

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. - Anna Jameson

Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. - Victor Hugo

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received. – Confucius

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. - Buddhist Proverb

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu

In any way that men love Me, in that same way they find My love; for many are the paths of men, but they all in the end come to Me. - From the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy

If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new reality would emerge, and a new age could be born. - Jonas Salk

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? - Lao Tzu

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