Quotes
Who you are is what you transmit. No matter what you're doing. So you might as well get that right.
You have to be doing things because you want to do them. Not because you think they are good for you. You are falling in love with who you really are. You are falling in love with what lives within you.
It's one of the great lessons of life. What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside. It doesn't matter who does the squeezing—your mother, your brother, your children, your boss, the government. If someone says something about you that you don't like, what comes out of you is what's inside. And what's inside is up to you, it's your choice.
~ Wayne Dyer
Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
... almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All problems are a projection towards the future of possible realities based on your past.
~ Ariel and Shya Kane, Working on Yourself Doesn't Work, p. 82.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, or you can live as if everything is a miracle.
~ Albert Einstein
As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles.
~ Walt Whitman
Thought creates our world, and then says "I didn't do it!".
~ David Bohm
We are quite unaware how much we rely on our fragile prisons of belief. Whether those prisons are forged of Gods, science, or elements of both, they are what protect us and they are also the filter though which we experience life.
~ Dr. John H. Watson in The Breath of God (a Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Guy Adams)
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
~ Anne Lamott, writer
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~ Aristotle
This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
Be the Person You Want to Find
Live to be in the present. Safety, security, knowing and being right are all synonyms for death.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The spiritual journey is one of continually falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, looking sheepishly at God, and taking another step.
~ Sri Aurobindo
It is characteristic of the ego that it takes all that is unimportant as important and all that is important as unimportant.
~ Meher Baba in Discourses
We see ourselves as broken, and then set out on a long and frustrating journey to fill our emptiness. But it is not fixing that we require; it is awakening.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
To fight fear, act. To increase fear, wait, put off, postpone.
~ David Joseph Schwartz
To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great.
~ Zane Grey
When the gates are all down and the signals are flashing
And the whistle is screaming in vain
And you stay on the tracks, ignoring the facts,
Well, you can't blame the wreck on the train.
I give thanks to the waves upholding me
Hail the great winds urging me on
Greet the infinite sea before me
Sing the sky my sailor's song
I was born upon the fathoms
Never harbor or port have I known
The wide universe is the ocean I travel
And the Earth is my blue boat home.
Meditate because you love God.
Money flows into your life when you trust yourself enough to handle it.
When money is scarce, give some away! Don't give in to scarcity thinking. When money is abundant, give because you're grateful.
~ Cheryl Richardson, from a talk given at Unity Church of Christianity in Houston
When the satisfaction or security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. ... Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.
~ Harry Stack Sullivan
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
~ Marion Wright Edelman
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
~ Muhammad Ali
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