Lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or being. - E.Y. Harburg
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. - Emily Dickinson
Life is like a mirror. If you frown at it, it frowns back. If you smile at it, it returns the greeting. - Herbert Samuels
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. - Maimonides
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. - John Churton Collins
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore
*Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. - Calvin Coolidge
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. - Mahatma Gandhi
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. - Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'- Sydney J. Harris
Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within. - Steven H. Coogler
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always. - Mahatma Gandhi
The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have. - Leonard Nimoy
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. - James Lane Allen
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. - Katherine Paterson
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. - Greg Anderson
You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. - Christopher Robin to Pooh
The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time. - W.J. Davison
Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height. – Buddha
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. - Thomas Fuller
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. - John Andrew Holmes
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson: to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power… - Mahatma Gandhi
If I have learned one thing in this life, it is that God will not tie my shoes without me. - Doug Boyd
It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. - Thomas Robert Gaines
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. - Victor Hugo
There are years that ask questions, and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. - Aesop
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. - Bruce Barton
You gain strength, experience, and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. - Joseph Campbell
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others — he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. — Robert Kennedy
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. - Milan Kundera
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie
I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. - Harry S. Truman
There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less. - Kurt Hahn
In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. - John Ruskin
Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me? - Parker Palmer
The problem with a lot of the [transformation] experiments in the sixties and seventies was that they were quick-fix, big-bang type experiments. But to really change, you’ve got to be willing to stay on what I call the "plateau." That’s where we have found the best results. I call it the "mastery curve” and it means that you stay on a plateau for a long time when you're learning any new skill. And then, every so often, you'll have a little spurt upward. . . [W]hen that spurt occurs . . . they’ll often say, "Okay, now I’m learning." But what we have to teach people is that that’s actually not when they’re learning. They’re learning on the plateau. And that takes patient, diligent, long-term practice. That’s when things are being programmed into them. - George Leonard
Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced. - John Keats
None will improve your lot If you yourself do not. - Bertolt Brecht
