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You found my collection of inspiring quotes that I've been collecting & curating over the years. Enjoy...

Quote	Author	Category	Keywords	Gender	Fav	Note
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.	Vincent Van Gogh	Insight	Purpose, calling, work, art	M
Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.	Lao Tzu	Spirit	Tao	M	x
This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.	Alan Watts	Creativity		M	x
The individual is an aperture through which the whole energy of the universe is aware of itself.	Alan Watts	Insight	Self, Identity	M	x
Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.	Alan Watts	Insight		M
Everybody is ‘you’. Everybody is ‘I’. That’s our name. We all share that.	Alan Watts	Spirit	Self, Identity	M	x
Your soul is not in your body. Your body is in your soul.	Alan Watts	Spirit		M	x
I believe in God, only I spell it N-A-T-U-R-E.	Frank Lloyd Wright	Spirit	God, Nature	M	x
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.	Joseph Campbell	Insight		M	x
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.	Joseph Campbell	Insight		M	x
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.	John Lennon			M	x
The dreamers are the redeemers of the world.	James Allen, As a Man Thinketh	Creativity		M
Art is an echo of the creative force that birthed Galaxies. Creativity is the way that the cosmos evolves and communicates with itself. The great uplifting of humanity beyond its self destruction is the redemptive mission of art.	Alex Grey	Creativity		M	x
Creativity is intelligence having fun.	Albert Einstein	Creativity		M	x
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.	Egon Schiele	Creativity		M
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.	Banksy	Creativity		M	x
I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.	Jean-Michel Basquiat	Creativity		M
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.	Buckminster Fuller	Insight		M	x
You can go through the motions of Zen, but it is the heart that finally counts.	Dōgen	Spirit		M	x
To be in harmony with the oneness of things is to be without anxiety about imperfection.	Dogen Zenji	Spirit		M	x
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.	William Shakespeare	Insight		M
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.	Socrates	Insight	Not knowing	M
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.	John Muir	Insight	Interconnection	M	x
We love everyone by inhabiting the soul.	Ram Dass	Spirit
If you die before you die, then you won't die when you die.	Inscribed on St. Paul's Monastery, Mt. Athos	Spirit	Death awareness
The future depends on what you do today.	Mahatma Gandhi	Insight			x
Discipline has been my path to freedom.	Anne Lamott			F
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.	Maya Angelou	Insight		F	x
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.	Socrates	Insight		M	x
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.	Pema Chödrön	Spirit	Identity, being, self	F	x
The key to transformation is to make friends with this moment. What form it takes doesn't matter. Say yes to it. Allow it. Be with it.	Eckhart Tolle	Spirit	Acceptance, Presence, Being	M	x
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.	Leonardo Da Vinci	Design	Simplicity, artist, art	M	x
Design is thinking made visible.	Saul Bass	Design
The noblest art is that of making others happy.	P. T. Barnum	Insight	Kindness	M	x
No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.	P. T. Barnum	Insight	Self, Uniquiness
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.	Ram Das	Spirit	awakening, opportunity, attitude, perspective	M	x
I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.	Albert Hoffman	Spirit	nonduality, Gaia,	M
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.	Joseph Campbell	Insight	Direction, clarity	M
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	Success, Meaning of life	M	x
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Insight	Love, Hate, Decide, Compassion	M	x
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.	The Dalai Lama	Insight		M
When the power of love becomes stronger than the love of power, we will have peace.	Jimi Hendrix	Relationships	Love, Power, Strength, Peace	M	x
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.	Thich Nhat Hanh	Spirit	Mindfulness, Breath awareness, Meditation
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.	Maya Angelou	Insight	Design	F
Nathaniel Hawthorne once famously said, “Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Insight		M
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Perseverance	M	x
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.	Pablo Picasso	Creativity		M
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.	Aristotle	Business	Excellence, Action, Habit	M	x
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.	Pablo Picasso	Creativity	Art, Learn, Action, Discovery, Exploration	M	x
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.	Shunryu Suzuki	Insight	Presence, Mindfulness	M	x
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.	Pablo Picasso	Insight		M	x
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.	Joseph Campbell		Acceptance	M
Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it... This will miraculously transform your whole life.	Eckhart Tolle		Acceptance	M
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.	Albert Einstein	Insight		M	x
There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Intuition, Discovery, Laws, Feeling, Order, Appearances, Logic, Elemental	M
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.	Eleanor Roosevelt	Insight	Future, Beauty, Dreams	F	x
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations	Dr. Mae Jemison	Insight	Unlimited, unstoppable, limitations	F	x
It always seems impossible until it's done.	Nelson Mandela	Business		M	x
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.	Winston Churchill	Insight	Optimism, pessimism	M
The best use of life is investing it in something which will outlast life.	William James	Insight	Life, Time	M
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.	William James			M
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Simplicity, Understanding	M
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.	Albert Einstein	Design	Simplicity	M
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Harmony, Simplicity, Difficulty, Opportunity	M
Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.	Joe Sparano	Design		M
Design is intelligence made visible.	Alina Wheeler	Design		F
Simplicity (kanso) means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.	Dr. Koichi Kawana	Design	Simplicity, Efficiency, Most, Least	M
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.	Hans Hofmann	Design	Simplicity,	M	x
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.	Paul Rand	Design	Simplicity	M
Design is so simple. That’s why it’s so complicated.	Paul Rand	Design	Simplicity	M
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.	Paul Rand	Design	Creativity	M
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.	H. L. Mencken		Simplicity, complexity
The details are not the details. They make the design.	Charles Eames	Design		M
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.	Steve Jobs	Design		M
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.	Steve Jobs	Design	Creativity, Creative process	M
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.	Robert L. Peters	Design		M
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.	E. F. Schumacher	Design	Simplicity	M
Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should–and must–question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.	Dieter Rams	Design		M
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.	Maya Angelou	Insight	Individuality	F
Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.	IDEO	Design	Teamwork, design
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.	Winston Churchill	Design	Architecture, design	M
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.	Louis Khan	Design	Architecture, design	M
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site	Frank Lloyd Wright	Design	Architecture, design
They don’t want quarter-inch bits. They want quarter-inch holes.	Leo McGinneva	Design		M
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.	Elon Musk	Design		M
A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.	Martin LeBlanc, Iconfinder	Design		M
Design isn’t crafting a beautiful textured button with breathtaking animation. It’s figuring out if there’s a way to get rid of the button altogether.	Edward Tufte	Design		M
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in a environment, an environment in a city plan.	Eero Saarinen	Design	Design thinking	M
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.	Naoto Fukasawa	Design	Context, Design thinking	M
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.	Sir Ken Robinson	Design		M
Design and art are independent coordinates that provide their greatest satisfactions when experienced simultaneously.	Milton Glaser	Design		M
It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people’s lives.	Don Norman	Design	UX	M	x
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.	Zora Neale Hurston	Design	Testing	F
The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.	Jessica Hische	Business	Work	F
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.	Mark Weiser	Design		M
Look at usual things with unusual eyes.	Vico Magistretti	Design	Perception, Awareness, Creativity	M
Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.	Abraham Maslow	Creativity		M
Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.	Plato			M
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.	Carl Jung			M
Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.	Leo Burnett	Creativity		M
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everthing.	Plato	Creativity		M
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.	Ernest Hemingway		Purpose, Destination	M
Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.	Salvador Dali	Design	Perfect, perfectionism	M
You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.	George Nelson	Design	Creativity	M
Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.	John Maeda	Design	Creativity	M
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.	Thomas Edison	Creativity	Perseverance	M
Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.	Jay-Z	Art	Creativity	M
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.	Buckminster Fuller	Design		M
Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.	Alexander Isley	Business	Ambition, Creative process, Creativity	M
Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.	John Muir	Nature		M
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.	John Muir	Nature		M	x
All other attributes of a realized being must be relativized against this one absolute: an acute sense of the astonishing mystery of everything.	Huston Smith
The best way to predict the future is to create it.	Abraham Lincoln	Design, Business	Creativity	M	x
If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will think it’s stupid.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Intelligence, unique	M
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.	Plato	Insight	Kindness	M
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.	Coco Chanel	Insight		F	X
travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness	Mark Twain	Insight		M
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood.	Andrew Grove	Communication		M
Knowledge paves the way to love and love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.	Haile Selassie	Insight		M
I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Insight	Interconnectedness	M
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.	M.C. Escher	Business		M	x
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.	Albert Einstein			M
Any fool can run towards the light. It takes a master with courage to turn and face the darkness and shine his own light there.	Leslie Fieger	Insight	Light, Intention	F
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.	Henry Ford	Design		M
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	Design		M	x
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.	Euripides	Insight		M
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.	Douglas Adams	Humor	Creative process	M
We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.	Carl Jung	Insight	Change	M
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.	Greg Anderson	Insight	Change, Happiness, Focus	M
We can no longer afford to throw away even one ‘unimportant’ day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.	Sarah Ban Breathnach	Insight	Discovery, Happiness, Time	F
Ultimately, what we are looking to is the deepest connection within ourselves. As we get more connected to that, we begin to feel in harmony with other people and with the rest of the world.	Shakti Gawain	Insight	Connection, World, Harmony	F
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.	Keshavan Nair	Insight	Courage, Strength, Compassion, Wisdom	M
Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.	John Wooden	Insight	Attitude	M
Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried out. No water. The Hopi, or the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what’s beyond human power to change, and then to change the human’s attitude to be content with the inevitable.	Tony Hillerman	Insight	Difficulties, Power, Change, Native American	M
The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.	Eknath Easwaran	Insight	Thinking, Thoughts	M
There are three kinds of violence: one, through our deeds; two, through our words; and three, through our thoughts. ... The root of all violence is in the world of thoughts, and that is why training the mind is so important.	Eknath Easwaran	Insight	Thinking, Thoughts, Mind, Action, Speech	M
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.	Swami Vivekananda	Insight	Thoughts, Thinking	M
Thought manifests as the word. Word manifests as the deed. Deeds form into habit. Habit hardens character.	Buddha	Insight	Thoughts, Thinking, Actions, Character, Speech	M
The perfect is the enemy of the good.	Voltaire	Insight	Perfection	M
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.	Glenn Clark	Insight	Fear, Forgiveness	M
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.	Buddha	Insight	Time, Mind, Life	M
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.	W. Somerset Maugham	Insight	Success, Kindness	M
Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?	Eric Allenbaugh	Insight	Choice, Life	M
At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet gazing in amazement at the cold and yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable. Life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor eternity, only being.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Evolution, Life, Being, Beauty, Mystery	M
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.	Vernon Howard	Insight	Healing, Truth	M
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.	Lucille Ball	Insight	Love, World	F
By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life.	Gary Zukav	Insight	Thoughts, Thinking, Life, Emotions, Light	M
Believe that your life is worth living, and your belief will create the fact.	William James	Insight	Belief, Life	M
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.	Lao-tzu	Insight	Wisdom, Time, Taoism	M
When we are grateful for the good we already have, we attract more good into our life. On the other hand, when we are ungrateful, we tend to shut ourselves off from the good we might otherwise experience.	Margaret Stortz	Insight	Gratitude, Life	F
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.	William Booth	Insight	Power	M
By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.	Deepak Chopra	Insight	Consciousness, Actions, Evolution	M
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys.	Eliza Tabor	Insight	Strength, Difficulties	F
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces; we become the powerful force ourselves.	Leo Buscaglia	Insight	Power	M
Every submission to our fear enlarges its domain.	Samuel Johnson	Insight	Fear	M
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.	Unknown	Insight	Fear
A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.	Henry Ward Beecher	Insight	Wealth, Power	M
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.	Denis Waitley	Insight	Happiness, Love, Gratitude	M
Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.	Dan Millman	Insight	Evolution, Difficulties, Obstructions	M
There is an Indian belief that everyone is in a house of four rooms: A physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete.	Rumer Godden	Insight	Belief, Spirit	F
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.	Rainer Maria Rilke	Insight	Life, Learning, Difficulties	M
There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of humankind has achieved the second.	Logan Pearsall Smith	Insight	Life, Enjoyment, Wisdom	M
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.	Andre Gide	Insight	Discovery	M
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them with others.	Camus	Relationships	Happiness, Success, Humor	M
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	World, Accomplishment	M
I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose. And that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Insight	Love, Universe, Struggle, World, Power	M
Having a strong desire or being successful does not mean that you are going to feel great all the time. No matter how enlightened I become, I will not be positive all the time. You have to understand the swing of the pendulum. It must swing back and forth. The only other alternative is to sit still in neutral, which is precisely what most people do.	Thomas D. Willhite	Insight	Desire, Success, Attitude	M
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.	Nelson Henderson	Insight	Life, Purpose	M
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives.	Vernon Howard	Insight	Life	M
No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.	Unknown	Insight	Time, Intention
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.	John Schaar	Insight	Creativity, Change, Path	M
A good intention clothes itself with power.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	Power, Intention	M
Please… tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.	Gary Zukav	Insight	Desire, Life, Question, Answer	M
Instead of frittering away your vibrancy with worry or distraction, realize your mind and body are inextricably united. What calms and tones up one, soothes and improves the other.	Marsha Sinetar	Insight	Mind, Body	F
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit, divorce is impossible.	Gabrielle Roth	Insight	Body, Spirit, Reflection	F
If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?	Unknown	Insight	Body
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.	William Temple	Insight	Freedom, Thought	M
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.	Neale Donald Walsch	Insight	Life, Challenge	M
Happiness is not about the fulfillment of desires; it's about honoring your heart along the way.	Trish Whynot	Insight	Happiness, Desire, Heart	F
Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself - and there isn't one.	Wu Wei Wu	Insight	Happiness, Self	M
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.	James Allen	Insight	Dream, Vision, Time	M
Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.	Vernon Saunders	Insight	Experience, Learning	M
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.	Gail Sheehy	Insight	Learning, Challenges, Life	F
Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.	Myla Kabat-Zinn	Insight	Difficulties, Heart, Open	F	x
Even the most daring and accomplished people have undergone tremendous difficulty. In fact, the more successful they became, the more they attributed their success to the lessons learned during their most difficult times. Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.	Barbara Rose	Insight	Difficulties, Challenges, Growth, Life, Wisdom, Soul	F
No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.	Barbara Rose	Insight	Difficulty, Growth, Experience	F
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.	Theodore Rubin	Insight	Problems, Difficulties	M
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way - in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old.	Stephen Levine	Insight	Suffering, Healing	M
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.	Washington Irving	Insight	Attitude, Thought, Mind	M
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.	Arnold Glascow	Insight	Action, Thought	M
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.	William James	Insight	Action	M
Procrastination is the thief of time.	Edward Young	Insight	Time	M
There are times when we may fool ourselves. There are times when we can fool others. But we can never fool our body. It is the most sensitive barometer of our inner world.	Sherrill Sellman	Insight	Body	F
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.	James G. Bilkey	Insight	Difficulties, Challenges	M
Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.	Joan Borysenko	Insight	Learning, Happiness, Creativity	F
You will either step forward in growth or you will step back into safety.	Abraham Maslow	Insight	Growth, Challenges	M
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.	Henri Frederic Amiel	Insight	Difficulties, Joy, Growth, Freedom	M
When emotions are managed by the heart, they heighten your awareness of the world around you and add sparkle to life. The result is new intelligence and a new view of life.	Doc Childre & Howard Martin	Insight	Heart, Life, Awareness	M
When we allow today to be as meaningful as possible and fill it with a positive, hopeful, and loving perspective, then we are much more likely to have a tomorrow, and it is more likely to also be good and healing.	Meredith L. Young-Sower	Insight	Healing, Love	F
All the greatest and most important problems of life are fundamentally insolvable... they can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowth' proved on further investigation to require a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest appeared on the person's horizon, and through this broadening of his or her outlook the unsolvable problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms but faded when confronted with a new and stronger life urge.	Carl Jung	Insight	Growth, Life, Consciousness	M
Everyone stumbles over the truth from time to time, but most people pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing ever happened.	Sir Winston Churchill	Insight	Truth, Discovery	M
Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.	Robert F. Kennedy	Insight	Change	M
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self-being; if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.	Karl Jaspers	Insight	Being, Communication	M
Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.	Wayne Dyer	Insight	Trust, Ego, Confusion	M
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.	Maxwell Maltz	Insight	Acceptance	M
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.	Nikos Kazantzakis	Insight	Belief	M
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.	James Allen	Insight	Thought, Joy, Strength, Peace	M
I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.	Edward Everett Hale	Insight	Action	M
Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.	Stuart Wilde	Insight	Ego, Desire, Confusion	M
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.	Gerald Jampolsky	Insight	Peace, Acceptance	M
If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it, even if I did not have the ability in the beginning.	Mahatma Gandhi	Insight	Action, Belief	M
It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Belief	M
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.	Dr. David Schwartz	Insight	Belief, Action, Mind	M
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.	Sir Winston Churchill	Insight	Truth, Humor	M
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'	Lao-tzu	Insight	Time, Desire, Taoism	M
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.	Harriet Tubman	Insight	Dream, Strength, Passion, Change	F
One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more ‘advanced’ than it actually is.	Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson	Insight	Change, Ego, Anger	M
If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the river of greatness is always the stream of adversity.	Cavett Robert	Insight	Challenge, Difficulty, Evolution	F
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	Discover, World	M
Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.	Chinese Proverb	Insight	Fear, Change, Evolution
The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.	John Berry	Insight	Wisdom	M
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.	Dr. Paul Tournier	Insight	Acceptance, Love	M
One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.	Richard Nelson Bolles	Insight	World, Creativity	M
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations. Your consciousness expands in every direction. And you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.	Patanjali	Insight	World, Mind, Purpose, Consciousness, Dream, Creativity	M	x
In a world of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the learned will find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.	Eric Hoffer	Insight	Change, World, Learning	M
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.	Unknown	Insight	Change, Think, Transformation
I do only want to advise you to keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.	Rainer Maria Rilke	Insight	Growth, Transformation, Feeling, Question, Answer	M
Everything in life can be nourishing. Everything can bless us, but we've got to be there for the blessing to occur. Being present with quality is a decision we are invited to make each day.	MacRina Wiederkehr	Insight	Life, Presence	F
The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.	Roger Williams	Insight	Potential, Growth, World	M
There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one.	Ralph Marston	Insight	Thought, Life, Mind	M
Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances.	Unknown	Insight	Change, Imagination, Creativity
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.	Chinese Proverb	Insight	Wisdom, Anger
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.	James Allen	Insight	Thought, Change, Life	M
I can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or I can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.	Unknown	Insight	Perception
All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.	Blaise Pascal	Insight	Quiet	M
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.	Michael J. Fox	Insight	Perfection, God	M
The difference between holding on to a hurt or releasing it with forgiveness is like the difference between laying your head down at night on a pillow filled with thorns or a pillow filled with rose petals.	Loren Fincher	Insight	Forgiveness	M
Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.	Asha Tyson	Relationships	Journey, Time, Life	F
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.	Elizabeth Kubler Ross	Insight	Beauty, Compassion, Suffering, Love, Difficulty	F
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.	Dr. Denis Waitley	Insight	Life, Acceptance, Change	M
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.	Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	Insight	Thought, Action	M
Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we're usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don't even know it has spoken.	Shakti Gawain	Insight	Intuition, Confusion	F
Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.	Nicholas Evans	Insight	Life, Heart, Truth	M
There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart.	Elizabeth J. Canham	Insight	Freedom, Acceptance	F
Generally, appreciation means some blend of thankfulness, admiration, approval, and gratitude. In the financial world, something that ‘appreciates’ grows in value. With the power tool of appreciation, you get the benefit of both perspectives: as you learn to be consistently thankful and approving, your life will grow in value.	Doc Childre & Howard Martin	Insight	Gratitude, Finances, Life	M
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.	Malcolm Forbes	Insight	Confusion	M
You can never get to peace and inner security without first acknowledging all of the good things in your life. If you're forever wanting and longing for more without first appreciating things the way they are, you'll stay in discord.	Doc Childre & Howard Martin	Insight	Peace, Life, Desire, Appreciation	M
When one is frightened of the truth... then it is never the whole truth than one has an inkling of.	Ludwig Wittgenstein	Insight	Truth	M
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting, but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.	Allyson Jones	Insight	Life, Perfection, Learning	F
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.	Mary Manin Morrissey	Insight	Energy, Life, Freedom, Fear	F
Have in your mind that which would constitute a miracle for you. Get the vision. Suspend disbelief and skepticism. Allow yourself to take the journey toward real magic.	Wayne Dyer	Insight	Miracle, Vision, Journey, Magic	M
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.	Shirley Hufstedler	Insight	Growth, Life	F
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.	John Foster Dulles	Insight	Success	M
Every lesson is a widening and deepening of consciousness. It is a stretching of the mind beyond its conceptual limits and a stretching of the heart beyond its emotional boundaries. It is a bringing of unconscious material into consciousness, a healing of past wounds, and a discovery of new faith and trust.	Paul Ferrini	Insight	Learning, Consciousness, Emotions, Heart, Healing, Discovery	M
To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.	Jean Shinoda Bolen	Insight	Heart, Intuition, Choice, Path	F
We have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a God; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.	Joseph Campbell	Insight	Journey, Discovery, World, Path, God	M
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.	Carl Sandburg	Insight	Time, Life, Choice	M
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.	Stephen Covey	Insight	Freedom, Power, Choice	M
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.	Jean-Paul Sartre	Insight	Freedom, Choice	M	x
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.	Plato	Insight	Freedom	M
The abundance flows in many more avenues than dollars. And so, if you could focus upon the gifts that the Universe gives you: When you say "abundance", think about it in the abundance of health, the abundance of vitality, the abundance of clarity, the abundance of enthusiasm, the abundance of delicious people in your life, the abundance of loving letters in your life. The abundance of free-flowing traffic in your life. The abundance of wonderful experiences in your life... As you start thinking in terms of this abundance that doesn't have anything to do with dollars - the abundance relative to the dollars starts flowing too.	Abraham-Hicks	Insight	Abundance, Money, Health, Life, Thought	F
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.	Mahatma Gandhi	Insight	Belief, Action, Creation	M
The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.	Albert Schweitzer	Insight	Discovery, Life, Mind	M
Our lives improve only when we take chances... and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.	Walter Anderson	Insight	Life, Truth	M
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.	Joseph Campbell	Insight	Attitude, Journey, Question	M
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 of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.	Melody Beattie	Insight	Gratitude, Life, Anger	F
Ecstasy blows our minds open to a reality that is wild, beautiful, loving, abundant beyond our wildest dreams.	Jalaja Bonheim	Insight	Beautiful, Abundance, Open	F
When we feel stuck, going nowhere - even starting to slip backward - we may actually be backing up to get a running start.	Dan Millman	Insight	Difficulties	M
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.	Arland Gilbert	Insight	Acceptance, Joy, Miracles	M
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.	Marilyn Ferguson	Insight	Fear, Learning, Question	F
Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You're a perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that. Unconditional self acceptance is the core of a peaceful mind.	St. Francis de Sales	Insight	Peace, Acceptance	M
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.	Arnold Bennett	Insight	Truth, Soul	M
The world we are experiencing today is the result of our collective consciousness, and if we want a new world, each of us must start taking responsibility for helping create it.	Rosemary Fillmore Rhea	Insight	World, Consciousness, Creation	F
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.	Sidney Madwed	Insight	Thought	M
I had to accept the assignment of my own existence. The responsibility of this seemed immense but in actuality my acceptance became the freedom to fly.	Meg Blackburn Losey	Insight	Acceptance, Freedom	F
It seems in every interaction there is something to learn if we can only see ourselves as students. If we can humble ourselves, and allow ourselves to see the world without our own beliefs and dogmas, then we could see so much beauty awaiting us in each moment.	Sukh Chugh	Insight	Learning, Beliefs, Beauty, World	M
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.	H. G. Wells	Insight	Time, Miracle	M
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.	Geoffrey F. Abert	Insight	Abundance, Desire	M
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.	Dalai Lama	Insight	Knowledge, Experience, Difficulty, Life	M
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.	Sogyal Rinpoche	Insight	Wisdom, Life, Ego, Spirit	M
People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.	Aldous Huxley	Insight	Growth, Time	M
You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Action	M
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart… Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.	Buddha	Insight	Thoughts, Mind, Action, Speech, Happiness, Spirit	M
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.	Yunmen Wenyan	Insight	Perception, Zen, Poetry		x
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 well-being is dependent on other people loving us. But this is the 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	Insight	Belief, Love, Giving	M
Many people are waiting for prosperity. It cannot come in the future. When you honor, acknowledge, and fully accept your present reality - where you are, who you are, what you are doing right now - when you fully accept what you have got, you are grateful for what you have got, grateful for what is, grateful for Being. Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity. It cannot come in the future. Then, in time, that prosperity manifests for you in various ways.	Eckhart Tolle	Insight	Prosperity, Wealth, Acceptance, Gratitude, Life	M
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.	Stephen R. Covey	Insight	Awareness, Freedom, Choice, Change, Imagination	M
There is no happiness if the things you believe are different than the things you do.	James Arthur Ray	Insight	Belief, Action, Happiness	M
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.	Denis Waitley	Insight	Happiness, Love, Gratitude	M
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Love, Devotion	M	x
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 or person or event, without ego and without judgment.	Jean Shinoda Bolen	Insight	Soul, Ego, Love, Thought	F
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.	Agnes Repplier	Insight	Happiness	F	x
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.	Dr. Wayne W. Dyer	Insight	Character	M
The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.	Don Miguel Ruiz	Insight	Perfection, Ideals, Acceptance	M
How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By treating it as supremely important. By reaching for the best within ourselves. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.	Nathaniel Branden	Insight	Struggle, Difficulties, Life, Soul	M	x
If you open your heart, love opens your mind.	Charles John Quarto	Insight	Heart, Love, Mind, Open	M	x
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.	Marcus Aurelius	Insight	Pain, Power, Judgment	M
You are free to believe what you choose and what you do attests to what you believe.	A Course of Miracles	Insight	Freedom, Belief, Choice, Action	F
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.	Nathaniel Branden	Insight	Acceptance	M
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about.	Joseph Campbell	Insight	Purpose	M
Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.	Doug King	Insight	Stillness	M
If you see your path laid out in front of you -- Step one, Step two, Step three -- you only know one thing... it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.	Joseph Campbell	Insight	Action, Path, Vision	M
How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, past you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.	Dave Ramsey	Insight	Money	M
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.	Sir John Lubbock	Insight	Action, Peace	M
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.	Og Mandino	Insight	Strength, Gratitude, God	M
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.	Og Mandino	Insight	Love, Light, Darkness	M
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see.	A Course In Miracles	Insight	Vision, World, Change, Thinking, Choice, Reflection	F
One person with a belief is equal to the force of ninety-nine who have only interests.	John Stuart Mill	Insight	Belief, Power	M
Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.	Mahatma Gandhi	Insight	Speech, Destiny, Actions	M
Each day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. When we transcend ourselves we do not compete with others, we compete only with our previous achievements. And each time we surpass our achievements, we get joy... Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.	Sri Chinmoy	Insight	Life, Opportunity, Joy	M
We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.	Margaret Mead	Insight	Opportunity, Difficulties	F	x
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.	Glenda Cloud	Insight	Change, Growth	F
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.	Abraham Maslow	Insight	Choice, Growth, Fear	M
When we focus on clarifying what is being observed, felt, and needed rather than on diagnosing and judging, we discover the depth of our own compassion.	Marshall B. Rosenberg	Insight	Discover, Focus, Compassion	M
You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Help, Heal, Self	M
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.	Carl Jung	Insight	Light, Enlightenment, Darkness, Consciousness	M	x
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Thought, God, Intellect, Muscle, Personality	M
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Change, Thinking, World	M
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Thinking, Change, Problems	M	x
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.	Robert Service	Insight	Difficulties	M
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.	Anais Nin	Insight	Perception, Vision, Projection	F	x
One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.	Morris L. West	Insight	Life, Darkness, Security	M
The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.	Michael LeBeuf	Insight	World, Mind, Life, Attraction, Speech, Reflection, Mirror	M
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.	Elwyn Brooks White	Insight	World, Challenges, Enjoyment	M
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.	Alexander Dumas	Insight	Thinking	M
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.	Thomas Fuller	Insight	Change	M	x
If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.	Rainer Maria Rilke	Insight	Wealth	M
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.	Alexander Dumas	Insight	Failure, Doubt	M
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.	Catherine Ponder	Insight	Forgiveness, Freedom	F
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time...	Sara Paddison	Insight	Forgiveness, Truth, Love, Change	F
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.	Mark Twain	Insight	History	M
All that is, is the result of what we have thought.	Buddha	Insight	Thinking, Thought	M
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.	Cicero	Insight	Gratitude	M
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.	Mark Twain	Insight	Fear, Death	M
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.	Mark Twain	Insight	Courage, Fear	M
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Truth, Knowledge, God	M
It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Giving, World	M
The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer – they think they have, so they stop thinking. The need for mystery is greater than the need for the answer.	Ken Kesey	Insight	Mystery, Seeking, Thinking, Answer	M
To assume is to be deceived.	Yiddish proverb	Insight	Confusion, Thinking
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.	C. West Churchman	Insight	Wisdom, Question, Assumption	M
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.	John Quincy Adams	Insight	Difficulties, Obstacles	M
Our purpose is hidden in our joy, our inspiration, our excitement. As we act on what shows up in our life our purpose shows up.	James King	Insight	Purpose, Life, Joy, Action	M
When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.	Andrew Schneider	Insight	Consciousness, Creativity, Dream, Life, Purpose	M
There is no more important step you can take than to define your life's purpose. It develops your sense of belonging to our universe.	Arnold Patent	Insight	Life, Purpose, Universe	M
Without intentional, purposeful thought we might start to think that life events are somehow random. We might also venture onto the path of the "victim". My mantra states there are no victims - only volunteers. Every step of my journey is paved with a knowing that I am surrounded by divine opportunities to fulfill my purpose in prosperity.	Pamela Harper	Insight	Purpose, Thought, Path, Journey, Opportunity, Prosperity	F
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell' em, 'Certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it.	Theodore Roosevelt	Insight	Action, Learning	M
If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.	Dr. Norman Vincent Peale	Insight	Belief, Thinking, Learning, Laws	M
To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Self	M
Take care what words you speak that follow "I am." In so speaking you create your life.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Creation, Life, Self, Speech	M
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.	Og Mandino	Insight	Mind, Limitations	M
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.	John Petit-Senn	Insight	Abundance, Enjoyment	M
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.	Jerry Gillies	Insight	Energy, imagination, Path	M
Recognize that life is what you get when you’re born... living is what you do with it.	Jim Allen	Insight	Life, Action	M
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.	Deepak Chopra	Insight	Happiness, Acceptance, Resistance	M
You have been telling people that this is the 'Eleventh Hour.' Now you must go back and tell the people that it is 'The Hour.' And there are things to be considered: Where are you living? What are you doing? Are you in the right relations? Where is your water? Know your garden. It is time to speak your truth! Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for the leader!	Anonymous Hopi Elder	Insight	Leadership, Native American, Time, Life, Truth, Garden, Community, Action
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.	Winston Churchill	Insight	Opportunity, Difficulty	M
The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, and the realist adjusts his sails.	Unknown	Insight	Optimism, Pessimism, Realism
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.	Dale Carnegie	Insight	Success, Happiness, Desire	M
There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle. I believe in the latter.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Miracle, Belief, Life	M
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.	George Bernard Shaw	Insight	Miracle, Life, Mystery	M
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.	C. S. Lewis	Insight	Miracle, Life, Perception	M
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth.	Chinese Proverb	Insight	Miracle, Earth
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.	Marianne Williamson	Insight	Miracle, Love, Inspiration	F
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.	Walt Whitman	Insight	Light, Darkness, Miracle	M
A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.	Ralph Waldo Trine	Insight	Miracle, Laws, Knowledge, Wisdom, Power, Mind, Revelation	M
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.	Willa Cather	Insight	Love, Miracle	F
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.	Francois Mauriac	Insight	Love, Miracle, Invisible	M
The miracle is this — the more we share, the more we have.	Leonard Nimoy	Insight	Miracle, Sharing	M
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.	Mother Teresa	Insight	Miracle, Work, Happiness	F
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.	Henry David Thoreau	Insight	Change, Miracle, Time	M
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	Insight	Miracle, Life	F
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.	Paulo Coelho	Insight	Miracle, Time	M
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting.	Rainer Maria Rilke	Insight	Miracle, Love, Giving, Strength, Doubt	M	x
The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world.	Unknown	Insight	Miracle, Nature, World		x
I have found in life that if you want a miracle you first need to do whatever it is you can do - if that's to plant, then plant; if it is to read, then read; if it is to change, then change; if it is to study, then study; if it is to work, then work; whatever you have to do. And then you will be well on your way of doing the labor that works miracles.	Jim Rohn	Insight	Miracle, Life, Action, Change, World	M
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.	Robert H. Schuller	Insight	Miracle, Change	M
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	Wisdom, Miracle, Ordinary	M
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.	Ray Bradbury	Insight	Universe, Miracle, Life	M
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.	Buddha	Insight	Vision, Perception, Life, Miracle, Change	M
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.	Anais Nin	Insight	Dream, Miracle	M
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.	Pablo Picasso	Insight	Miracle	F
... no matter what our difficulties may be, we recognize that there is a deep untroubled stream flowing below all surface troubles and that we are of one substance with that stream. The soul knows no difficulties.	James Thornton	Insight	Difficulties, Soul	M
Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but there is no music. Then what?	Kabir	Insight	Music, Ethics	M
Adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	Nature, Patience	M
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.	Elbert Hubbard	Insight	Success, Laughter, Love	M
Energy follows thought. We move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of it.	Dan Millman	Insight	Energy, Thought, Imagination, Belief, Experience	M
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an enchanted land or opened a new doorway to the human spirit.	Helen Keller	Insight	Pessimism, Spirit, Discovery, Stars, Journey, Open	F
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.	Carl Jung	Insight	Purpose, Light, Darkness	M
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.	Paul Boese	Insight	Forgiveness, Future, Change	M
Today's thoughts are previews of coming attractions.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Thought, Future	M
Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Commitment, Purpose	M	x
Saints are sinners who kept going.	Robert Louis Stevenson	Insight	Sin, Transformation	M
Give cheerfully with one hand and you will gather well with two.	Irish Proverb	Insight	Giving, Receiving
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.	Indian Proverb	Insight	Life, Cry, Rejoice, Death, World
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	Insight	Authenticity	M
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.	William Penn	Insight	Right, Wrong	M
The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Life, Appreciation, Complaint	M
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.	Richard Bach	Insight	Transformation, Butterfly, World	M
Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?	Alan Cohen	Insight	Waiting, Ship	M
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.	John Mason	Insight	Originality, Death	M
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.	Kathleen A. Sutton	Insight	Acceptance, Desire	F
Observe the direct connection between practicing trust and serendipitous events that follow.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Trust, Serendipity, Observation, Practice	M
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. We always have the choice.	Dalai Lama	Insight	Choice, Life, Fear, Kindness	M
Dismiss whatever insults your soul.	Walt Whitman	Insight	Soul, Insult	M
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.	French Proverb	Insight	Conscience
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.	Johannes A. Gaertner	Insight	Speech, Life, Gratitude, Generosity, Heaven	M
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 of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.	Melody Beattie	Insight	Gratitude, Life, Acceptance, Chaos, Order, Confusion, Friend, Peace, Vision	F
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.	Erick Golnik	Insight	Win, Lose, Enjoy	M
So yield to what is coming. We're in a free fall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast and always when you're going through a long tunnel anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. I mean it's a very interesting shift of perspective, and that's all it is. Joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.	Joseph Campbell	Insight	Future, Anxiety, Hell, Paradise, Perspective, Joy, Sorrow, Change, Transformation, Action	M	x
People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Hunger, Heart, Wholeness	M
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	Shadow, Life, Light, Darkness	M
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.	Unknown	Insight	Power, Patience
Fools never learn from their mistakes. Smart people learn from their mistakes. Wise people learn from other people's mistakes.	Marc Allen	Insight	Mistakes, Fools, Wise, Learning	M
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Explore. Dream.	Mark Twain	Insight	Dream, Explore, Life, Time	M
The source of love is deep in us, and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy.	Thich Nhat Hanh	Insight	Love, Happiness, Realization, Action, Suffering, Joy	M
There is hardly a simpler law in physics than that according to which light is propagated in empty space.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Light, Physics, Law	M
All things are possible once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.	Norman Cousins	Insight	Possibility, Realization	M
Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stomp[ing] on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.	Shakti Gawain	Insight	Shadow, Light, Evil, Ignorance	F
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Peace, Understanding	M
We can not do great things, just small things with great Love.	Mother Theresa	Insight	Action, Love	F
The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.	Maxwell Maltz	Insight	Surprise, Life	M
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?	Alexander Solzhenitsyn	Insight	Evil, Heart, Destroy, Death, Good	M	x
The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.	Bertrand Russell	Insight	Stupidity, Doubt, Intelligence, World, Trouble, Difficulty	M
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.	Helen Keller	Insight	Character, Experience, Suffering, Success, Quiet	F
When you struggle against this moment, you're actually struggling against the entire universe. Instead, you can make the decision that today you will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. This means that your acceptance of this moment is total and complete. You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.	Deepak Chopra	Insight	Struggle, Universe, Decision, Acceptance, Understanding, Desire, Future, Change	M
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.	Edith Wharton	Insight	Light, Mirror, Reflection	F
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.	Samuel Johnson	Insight	Pleasure, Light	M
This may shock you, but I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude is that "single string" that keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there's no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.	Charles R. Swindoll	Insight	Attitude, Success, Failure, Pain, Progress, Dream, Challenge, Fire	M
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.	Confucius	Insight	Learning, Wisdom, Experience, Reflection	M
There is more to life than increasing its speed.	Mahatma Gandhi	Insight	Life, Speed	M
Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly.	Joseph Murphy	Insight	Infinity, Abundance, Perception, Vision, Gold, Joy, Open	M
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.	Mahatma Gandhi	Insight	Peace, Path	M
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.	Abraham Lincoln	Insight	Character, Adversity, Power	M
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Insight	End, Silence	M
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	Darkness, Stars, Light, Vision	M
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.	Henri Frederic Amiel	Insight	Self, Life	M
I beg you... to have patience with every thing unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer...	Rainer Maria Rilke	Insight	Questions, Answers, Life, Future, Time	M
The difference between a comedy and a tragedy is that in a comedy the characters figure out reality in time to do something about it.	Bennett W. Goodspeed	Insight	Change, Time, Comedy, Tragedy, Reality	M
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	Insight	Mind, Thought, Stretch	M
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.	Tolstoy	Insight	Thought, Change, Self, World	M
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.	Robert Frost	Insight	Happiness	M
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. As far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."	Albert Einstein	Insight	Laws, Mathematics, Reality, Certainty	M
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.	Elizabeth Kubler-Ross	Insight	Light, Darkness, Beauty, Within	F
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 that can move the world.	Mahatma Gandhi	Insight	Anger, Transformation, Experience	M
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.	Mary Oliver	Insight	Life, Amazement, World,	F
You are the one you have been waiting for.	Byron Katie	Insight	Self, Acceptance	F
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as well as that of his fellow man, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.	Albert Schweitzer	Insight	Ethics, Sacred, Nature, Devotion, Life, Help	M
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Insight	Soul, Service, Life, Love, Heart, Grace, Great	M
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.	Jonathan Swift	Insight	Vision, Invisible	M	x
At some time in everyone's life they will stumble across opportunity. Sadly, most people will pick themselves up and walk away as though nothing had ever happened.	Winston Churchill	Insight	Stumble, Opportunity, Life, Humor	M
When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the time and the place the tide will turn.	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Insight	Transformation, Change, Opposition, Difficulty	F
Be at peace with yourself. If you are not at peace with yourself, you are at peace with nothing.	Ron Rathbun	Insight	Peace, Self	M
What you find in your mind is what you put there. Put good things in there.	Ron Rathbun	Insight	Mind, Intention, Good	M
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 never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.	Audrey Hepburn	Insight	Beauty, Attractive, Aging, Woman, Soul, Love, Passion, Growth, Children, Help, Food	F	x
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.	Eleanor Roosevelt	Insight	Inferior, Feel, Consent	F
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.	Billie Holiday	Insight	Prison, Work, Wealth	F
You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.	Dhyani Ywahoo	Insight	Native American, Garbage, Society, Recycle	F
You have a unique mission to fulfill in this life, for you are capable of doing things that can be accomplished by no one else‚ and when you honor your own inner Light, keeping always attuned to the Divine Source, your purpose will continue to reveal itself, though shadows of darkness and doubt will sometimes befall your path. Keep going far enough, and you will always return to a place of shimmering light and warmth, and then shall you sense with certainty that you're traveling in the right direction, and will surely reach your destination in good time."	Unknown	Insight	Light, Path, Warmth, Direction, Journey, Destination, Mission, Life, Divine, Source, Purpose, Shadows, Darkness, Doubt
Conscious change is brought about by the two qualities inherent in consciousness: attention and intention. Attention energizes, and intention transforms. Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life. Whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate, and disappear. Intention, on the other hand, triggers transformation of energy and information. Intention organizes its own fulfillment.	Deepak Chopra	Insight	Intention, Attention, Organization, Fulfillment, Life, Change, Conscious, Energy, Transformation, Information	M
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.	Mother Teresa	Insight	Good, Action, Forgiveness, Kindness, Selfish, Success, Enemies, Honesty, Truth, Build, Destroy, Serenity, Happiness, Jealousy, Forget, Give, Action, God, Self	F	x
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.	Diane Arbus	Insight	Self, Deceit, Wish, Belief, Truth	F
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.	Diane Arbus	Insight	Mind, Action, Hand, Touch, Contemplation	F
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.	Diane Arbus	Insight	Awkward, Art, Artist, Process	F
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.	Diane Arbus	Insight	Knowledge, Fire, Candle, Share	F
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.	Helen Keller	Insight	Purpose, Happiness, Self, Gratification, Worth	F
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Logic, Imagination	M	x
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.	Unknown	Insight	Honesty, Book, Wisdom
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.	Thomas Jefferson	Insight	Perseverance, Rope	M
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.	William Blake	Insight	Bird, Fly, Wings	M
My life is my message.	Mahatma Gandhi	Spirit	Life, Message	M
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.	Wayne W. Dyer	Insight	Childhood, Time	M
Be with what is, so that what is to be may become.	Soren Kierkegaard	Insight	Acceptance	M
Nothing is worth more than this day.	Goethe	Insight	Appreciation, Today	M
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once, and we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.	Nietzsche	Insight	Dance, Truth, False, Laughter	M
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.	Sarah Bernhardt	Insight	Life, Wealth, Energy, Finances	F
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.	Mahatma Gandhi	Insight	Wisdom, Strength, Error, Weakness	M
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.	Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Nation	Insight	Life, Death, Fear, Heart, Religion, Respect, Love, Perfect, Beauty, Service, Song, Friend, Respect, Gratitude, Food, Joy, Wisdom, Fool, Vision, Spirit, Sing, Hero, Native American, Food	M	x
For many of us there is a gap between the compass and the clock - between what's deeply important to us and the way we spend our time.	Steven Covey	Insight	Time, Direction	M
The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.	Helen Keller	Insight	Life, Vision, Tragedy, Sight	F
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.	George Washington Carver	Insight	Life, Compassion, Sympathy, Tolerance, Strong, Weak	M
The miracle is not to walk on water, but to walk with love on earth, as if your feet are kissing the ground. We must remember that our presence alone is a miracle. We must learn to say 'Yes' to the miracles of life.	Thich Nhat Hanh	Insight	Miracle, Water, Earth, Life	M
Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt you don't even know if you owe.	Mark Twain	Insight	Worry	M
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.	Henry James	Insight	Kindness, Life	M
It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth, and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest; as if it was the only one we had.	Elizabeth Kübler-Ross	Insight	Time, Earth, Knowing, Live, Fullness	F	x
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.	Dalai Lama	Insight	Religion, Kindness, Philosophy, Brain, Heart, Temple	M
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'	Aldous Huxley	Insight	Kindness, Life, Advice	M
When written in Chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.	John Kennedy	Insight	Crisis, Danger, Opportunity	M
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.	Anais Nin	Insight	Flower, Bloom, Pain, Risk, Time	F
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.	Marilyn Ferguson	Insight	Fear, Freedom, Knowledge	F
To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.	James Arthur Baldwin	Insight	Fear, Defense, Conquer	M
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.	John Balguy	Insight	Desire, Contentment, Wise, Happiness	M
Truth is unique to each moment. You cannot step in the same stream twice. So wipe the slate clean. Wake up in this moment and truly be here. Let go of what you think happened. It is gone. It no longer exists. Tell your stories, but don't get stuck in them. This moment is like no other.	John MacEnulty	Insight	Truth, Clean, Presence, Thought, Story, Now	M
Be the change you want to see in the world.	Mahatma Gandhi	Insight	Being, Change, World	M
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.	Charles Darwin	Insight	Strength, Intelligence, Change, Survival	M	x
It's not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it.	Lena Horne	Insight	Challenge	F
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.	Dr. Albert Schweitzer	Insight	Compassion, Nature, Peace	M
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.	Khalil Gibran	Insight	Children, Wisdom, Cry, Philosophy, Laughter, Bow	M
The important thing is this: to be able at a moment's notice to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.	Charles du Bos	Insight	Sacrifice, Being, Becoming	M
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.	Nietzsche	Insight	Flight, Appearance, Small	M
Life extracts a price for less than full participation.	Tarthang Tulku	Insight	Life, Participation	M
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.	Mahatma Gandhi	Insight	Vegetarian, Morality, Animals	M
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Vegetarian, Health, Survival, Earth, Evolution, Animals, Food	M
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. If you eat meat, you participate in taking animal life merely for the sake of your appetite.	Leo Tolstoy	Insight	Vegetarian, Morality, Health, Animals, Death, Food	M
From an early age, I have abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they look upon the murder of men.	Leonardo Da Vinci	Insight	Vegetarian, Morality, Animals, Murder, Men, Food	M
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.	Sequichie Comingdeer	Insight	Death, Fear, Action	M
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.	The Gospel of Thomas	Insight	Destroy, Share, Within, Self	M
He is invited to great things who receives small things greatly.	Flavius	Insight	Great, Perception	M
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.	Arthur Schopenhauer	Insight	Limits, Vision, World	M
The best way out is always through.	Robert Frost	Insight	Transformation	M
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.	Krishnamurti	Insight	Sickness, Health, Society	M
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.	James Oppenheim	Insight	Foolish, Wise, Distance, Feet	M
Believe nothing because a wise man said it. Believe nothing because it is generally held true. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be divine. Believe nothing because someone else believes it. But believe only what you yourself judge to be true.	Buddha	Insight	Belief, Truth, Wisdom, Divine, Self	M
Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror, just keep going. No feeling is final.	Rainer Maria Rilke	Insight	Feeling, Beauty, Terror	M
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.	Aldous Huxley	Insight	Experience, Action, Perception	M
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.	Andre Gide	Insight	Discovery, Ocean, Courage	M
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.	Henri Bergson	Insight	Existence, Change, Mature, Creation	M
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer.	Albert Camus	Insight	Discover, Winter, Summer, Self	M
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.	Charles Darwin	Insight	Waste, Man, Time, Discover, Life, Value	M
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.	Oscar Wilde	Insight	Life, Tragedy, Desire, Humor	M	x
Sometimes we have the absolute certainty that there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.	Hubert Selby, Jr.	Insight	Self, Demon, Angel, Look	M
To reflect is to reflect on the subtlest details of one's actions.	Unknown	Insight	Reflect, Actions, Subtle
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.	Henry David Thoreau	Insight	Path, Walk, Mind, Thought, Dominate, Life, Intention	M
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.	Anais Nin	Insight	Life, Expansion, Courage, Shrink	F	x
The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences.	Dalai Lama	Insight	Happiness, Materialism, Assumption, Gratification, Senses, Survival, Transformation, Depth	M
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.	Aldous Huxley	Insight	Learning, History, Ignorance	M
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.	Henry Van Dyke	Insight	Time, Love, Eternity, Fear, Grieve	M	x
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.	Carl Jung	Insight	Vision, Look, Dream, Heart, Awaken	M	x
Every step in human progress in contingent on our ability to daydream.	Ernst Bloch	Insight	Dream, Progress, Human, Ability	M
The greater the challenge, the greater the heat. The greater the heat, the greater the purification.	Jack Kornfield	Insight	Challenge, Heat, Purification	M
That that is, is.	William Shakespeare	Insight	Acceptance, Perception	M
The truth will set you free... but it will piss you off first.	Gloria Steinem	Insight	Humor, Truth, Freedom	F
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give an unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always useless.	Oscar Wilde	Insight	Humor, Opinion	M
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness although, to sooth one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.	Albert Camus	Insight	Enjoyment, Self, Selfish, Happiness	M
You can’t teach an man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.	Galileo	Insight	Learning, Teach, Person, Discover	M
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Teacher, Joy, Knowledge, Expression	M
When you’re courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Relativity, Physics, Science, Time	M
Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his own character, and reveals it by hiding.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	Hide, Reveal, Society, Mask	M
Cruelty is a lack of imagination.	Carlos Fuentes	Insight	Cruelty, Imagination	M
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.	M. Kathleen Casey	Insight	Pain, Suffering	F	x
We must fight the pessimism of the intellect with the optimism of the will.	Antonio Gramsci	Insight	Pessimism, Optimism, Will	M
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.	Mark Twain	Insight	History	M
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.	Plato	Insight	Injustice, Suffer	M
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Perfection, Means, Goals, Confusion, Era	M
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.	Mark Twain	Insight	Reflect, Majority, Pause	M
Science and religion are not so different except that in science, the ultimate sin is believing too strongly.	Marvin Minsky	Insight	Science, Religion, Sin, Belief	M
The chief act of the will is not effort, but consent.	Thomas Keating	Insight	Will, Action	M
Contentment is true wealth.	Nagarjuna	Insight	Contentment, Wealth	M
Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular - but one must take it simply because it is right.	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	Insight	Right, Conscience, Popular, Question	M
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved towards that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested. The darkest hour of the night come just before the dawn.	Paulo Coelho	Insight	Darkness, Dawn, Test Dream, World, Soul, Perseverance, Search, Victor, Night	M
There must be new contact between men and the earth; the earth must be newly seen and heard and felt and smelled and tasted; there must be a renewal of the wisdom that comes with knowing clearly the pain and the pleasure and the risk and the responsibility of being alive in this world.	Wendell Berry	Insight	People, Earth, Feelings, Wisdom, Pain, Pleasure, Risk, Responsibility, Life, World	M
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.	Edith Wharton	Insight	Health, Aging, Change, Fear, Curiosity, Happiness	F
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn the past, not to worry about the future or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment earnestly and wisely.	Buddha	Insight	Health, Mind, Body, Time, Future, Past, Troubles, Present, Wisdom	M
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.	William Jennings Bryan	Insight	Destiny, Chance, Choice, Achievement, Waiting	M
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.	Lao-tzu	Insight	Journey, Path, Step, Taoism	M
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.	Ken Keyes Jr.	Insight	Love, Person, Hostile, Perception, Reflection, Mirror	M
Its hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.	Fred A. Clark	Insight	Luck, Good, Perception	M
Would you learn the secret of the sea? / Only those who brave its dangers, / comprehend its mystery!	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Insight	Sea, Ocean, Mystery, Secret, Understanding	M
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.	Kahlil Gibran	Insight		M
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.	Helen Keller	Insight	Opportunity, Perception, Door, Look, Open	F
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.	Ben Franklin	Insight	Happiness, Pursuit	M
Life is about change, but growth is optional.	Bruce Lee	Insight	Life, Change, Growth	M	x
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.	Pythagoras	Insight	Action, Good, People, Speech, Satisfaction	M
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.	Albert Einstein	Insight	Spirit, Mind, Opposition, Violence	M
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.	Eden Phillpotts	Insight	Universe, Intelligence, Magic, Patience	F
All truths are half-truths.	Alfred North Whitehead	Insight	Truth	M
To live content with small means; to see elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.	William Henry Channing	Insight	Live, Contentment, Wealth, Money, Stars, Birds, Children, Heart, Open, Sages, Spiritual, Ordinary, Symphony	M
Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.	George Bernard Shaw	Insight	Life, Fire, Torch, Burn, Bright, Future, Time	M
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake.	George Bernard Shaw	Insight	Rejoice, Life, Death, Work, Love	M
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.	Unknown	Insight	Laughter, Weep, Fool, Risk, Feelings, Ideas, Dreams, Love, Death, Hope, Despair, Effort, Failure
Bless those who challenge us to grow, to stretch, to move beyond the knowable, to come back home to our elemental and essential nature. Bless those who challenge us for they remind us of doors we have closed and doors we have yet to open. They are big medicine teachers for us.	Navajo saying	Insight	Challenge, Bless, Essence, Self, Medicine, Learning, Teacher, Native American
The unexamined life is not worth living.	Plato	Insight	Self, Awareness	M
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	Success, People, Children, Respect, Appreciation, Criticism, Beauty, World, Improvement, Health, Garden, Life	M
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.	St. Francis de Sales	Insight	Difficulties, Gentleness, Time, Patience	M
Let him who wants to move and convince others be first moved and convince himself.	Thomas Carlyle	Insight	Convince, People, Self	M
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.	George Bernard Shaw	Insight	Question, Difficult, Obvious, Answer	M	x
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.	Francis Bacon	Insight	Doubt, Certainty	M
Water which is too pure has no fish.	Ts'ai Ken T'an	Insight	Purity, Water, Fish	M
When you judge, you lose love.	Krishnamurti	Insight	Judgment, Love, Loss	M
Of a certainty the man who can see all creatures in himself, himself in all creatures, knows no sorrow.	The Upanishads	Insight	Self, Other, Animals, Sorrow
Pain is the cracking of the shell that encloses your understanding.	Kahlil Gibran	Insight	Pain, Shell, Understanding, Crack	M
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.	Catherine the Great	Insight	Person, Knowledge, Forgiveness	F	x
The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.	Nietzsche	Insight	Belief, Truth, Doubt	M
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	Journey, Step, Fear	M	x
Anything that has been explained ceases to interest us.	Nietzsche	Insight	Interest, Understanding, Interest	M
There is nothing that fear does not make men believe.	Marquis de Vauvengras	Insight	Fear, Belief	M
Nothing in this world is good or bad but thinking makes it so.	William Shakespeare	Insight	Thinking, Good, Bad, World	M
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.	Brian Greene	Insight	Questions, Deep, Flexibility, Acceptance, Answers	M
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.	James Allen	Insight	Thinking, Journey, Tomorrow, Today	M
Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can’t go.	Seng-ts’an	Insight	Thinking, Journey, Step, Zen	M
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Universe, Delusion, Satisfaction, Perception, Reassurance	M
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Knowledge	M
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Universe, Invent	M
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Journey, Time, People, Book, Voice	M	x
If you think you’re too small to be effective, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito.	Betty Reese	Insight	Insect, Small, Effective, Mosquito	F
Live each day as if it were your last, and one day you’ll be right.	Unknown	Insight	Death, Action, Life, End
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.	Marsha Norman	Insight	Dreams, Book, Soul, Writing	F
Thought is action in rehearsal.	Sigmund Freud	Insight	Thought, Action, Practice	M
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.	T. S. Eliot	Insight	Time, Waste, Enjoyment	M
The full and joyful acceptance of the self is the only sure way of transforming it.	Henry Miller	Insight	Self, Joy, Acceptance, Transformation	M
The thief of peace is the desire for the transient.	Papaji	Insight	Desire, Transience, Peace, Thief	M
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.	J. L. Borges	Insight	Religion, Death, Easy	M
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.	Spinoza	Insight	Understanding, Emotions, Self, Love, Acceptance	M	x
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.	Nietzsche	Insight	Growth, Wisdom, Attitude	M
Whether your life is meaningful or not depends on how much you value your present situation.	Tarthang Tulku	Insight	Life, Meaning, Value	M
What bread looks like depends on whether you’re hungry or not.	Rumi	Insight	Food, Perception, Hunger	M
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own worst thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much, not even your father or your mother.	Buddha	Insight	Thought, Help, Harm, Obstacles, Mastery, Support	M
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.	Arthur Schopenhauer	Insight	Truth, Violence, Acceptance, Stages, Humor	M
Our aspirations are our possibilities.	Robert Browning	Insight	Aspiration, Possibilities	M
No man is free who is not master of himself.	Epictetus	Insight	Freedom, Person, Mastery, Self	M
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.	Alan Watts	Insight	Self, Thinking, Understanding, Teeth, Zen	M
From silence came the ego, from the ego came thought, and from thought came speech. If speech is effective, how much more effective must be its source!	Ramana Maharshi	Insight	Silence, Thought, Speech, Ego, Effective, Source, Spirit	M
Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.	The Course in Miracles	Insight	Whole, Demand, Self, Perception
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction... The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the darkness of annihilation.	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Insight	Darkness, Light, Hate, Love, Violence, Destruction, Evil, War	M
… only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Insight	Darkness, Stars, Light, Vision	M	x
No one chooses evil because it is evil; we only mistake it for happiness.	Mary Wollstonecraft	Insight	Evil, Happiness, Mistake, Perception	F
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.	Samurai maxim	Insight	Anger, Battle, War, Life, Defeat, Samurai
To transcend personality, you must descend to the source of personality.	Heraclitus	Insight	Personality, Self, Transcend, Source, Greek	M
You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.	Unknown	Insight	Desire, Satisfaction
Nothing cruel is useful or expedient.	Cicero	Insight	Cruelty, Useful	M
It seems that we have to go to war every twenty years or so just to prove what we already know: there are no winners in war, only survivors.	Unknown	Insight	War, Violence, Survival, Knowledge
In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others she loves love.	Lord Byron	Insight	Passion, Love, Woman	M
She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.	Olga Broumas	Insight	Love, Flowers, Roses, Thorns, Patience	F
Those who wish to sing always find a song.	Sweding Proverb	Creativity	Sing, Song, Desire, Creativity
There are no ordinary moments.	Dan Millman	Insight	Time, Perception, Ordinary	M
Death is not sad. The sad thing is that most people don't ever really live at all.	Dan Millman	Insight	Death, Sadness, People, Life	M
The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.	Dan Millman	Insight	Happiness, More, Less, Development	M
You ask me why I do not write something... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.	Florence Nightingale	Insight	Write, Action, Words, Results	F
It is well known that the longer one postpones a pleasure, the greater the pleasure is when one finally gets it. Therefore, if one postpones it forever, the pleasure should be infinite.	Saul Gorn	Insight	Pleasure, Infinite, Gratification, Delay, Time, Humor	M
I never make mistakes. Once I thought I did, but I was wrong.	Anonymous six year old child	Insight	Mistake, Error, Wrong, Humor
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.	Joan Baez	Relationship	Romance	F
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.	Pema Chodron	Insight	Glory, Wretched, Need, Inspiration, Soften	F
If everything in the universe were sensible, nothing would happen.	Dostoyevsky	Insight	Universe, Rational, Nothing	M		“The Brothers Karamazov” (1880)
A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.	Pema Chodron	Insight	Fear, Health, Message, Look, Perception, Threat, Struggle	F	x
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.	Amelia Earhart	Insight	Action, Fear, Change, Life, Process, Success, Reward	F
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.	Amelia Earhart	Insight	Action, Example, Good, Kindness, Roots, Trees, Self	F	x
Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.	Amelia Earhart	Insight	Danger, Possibility, Fear	F
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.	Amelia Earhart	Insight	Action, Impossible	F
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.	Toni Morrison	Insight	Oppression, Chain, Repression	F
Action is the antidote to despair.	Joan Baez	Insight	Action, Despair, Antidote	F
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.	Pema Chodron	Insight	Teacher, Crazy, Open, Hearts, Learn	F
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.	Pema Chodron	Insight	Heart, Touch, Discover, Vast, Infinite, Warmth, Gentleness, Space	F
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.	Pema Chodron	Insight	Truth, Belief, New	F
For the secret of a man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.	Dostoyevsky	Insight	Purpose, Life, Death, Destroy, Food, Bread, Abundance	M
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.	Og Mandino	Insight	Laughter, Miracle, Drug, Pain, Depression, Help, Perspective, Defeat, Worry, Freedom, Mind, Think, Clarity, Solution, Serious	M
They suffer, of course... But then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of life? Life would be transformed into an endless church service; it would be holy, but tedious.	Dostoyevsky	Insight	Suffering, Life, Pleasure, Church, Holy, Transformation	M
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize as such.	Henry Miller	Insight	Life, Discipline, Defeat, End, Evil, Beauty, Joy, Strength, Open, Mind, Vision, Acceptance	M	x
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."	Mark Twain	Insight	Humor, Attitude, Spirit, Irritation	M
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.	Mark Twain	Humor	Laughter, Weapon, Human	M
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.	Mark Twain	Humor	Aging, Mind, Matter	M
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.	Herm Albright	Humor	Attitude, Positive, Irritation	M
The world is full of obvious things, which nobody by any chance ever notices.	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Humor	Observation	M
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.	Lucille Ball	Humor	Funny, Brave	F
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.	Lucille Ball	Humor	Chance, Awareness	F
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.	Lucille Ball	Humor	Intelligent, Age, Woman, Aging	F
I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.	Lucille Ball	Humor	Shyness, Attitude, Shy	F
You see much more of your children once they leave home.	Lucille Ball	Humor	Children, Perception, See	F
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.	Lucille Ball	Humor	Luck, Fear, Work, Opportunity	F
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.	Lucille Ball	Humor	Religion, Love, Self, Success, World	F
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.	Lucille Ball	Humor	Attitude, Work, Optimism, Faith, Self	F
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.	Lucille Ball	Humor	Regret, Action	F
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?	Ursula LeGuin	Humor	Sane, Crazy, World	F
The creative adult is the child who has survived.	Ursula LeGuin	Creativity	Child, Survival, Adult	F
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.	Ursula LeGuin	Creativity	Peace, Imagination, Exile, Fool, World	F
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.	Larry Eisenberg	Humor	Peace, Mind, Surrender, Universe	M	x
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.	Michael Altshuler	Humor	Time, Flight, Pilot, Bad, Good, News	M	x
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.	David Brinkley	Humor	Success, Person, Throw	M
I can resist everything except temptation.	Oscar Wilde	Humor	Resistance, Temptation, Discipline	M
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.	Mark Twain	Humor	Truth, Remember, Honesty	M
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.	Vince Lombardi	Humor	Enthusiasm, Work	M
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.	Oscar Wilde	Humor	People, Genius, Forgiveness	M
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.	Mark Twain	Humor	Money, Finances, World, Nothing	M
I've already got all the money I'll ever need - if I die by four o'clock this afternoon.	Henry Youngman	Humor	Money, Death	M
Pulling out the chair beneath your mind and watching you fall upon God - what else is there for Hafiz to do that is any fun in this world!	Hafiz	Humor	God, Chair, Fun, World	M
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.	Will Rogers	Humor	Past, Today, Time	M
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.	Katharine Hepburn	Humor	Obey, Rules, Fun	F
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.	Will Rogers	Humor	Fruit, Risk, Tree	M
For fast acting relief, try slowing down.	Lily Tomlin	Humor	Tempo, Fast, Slow, Relief	F
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.	Mark Twain	Humor	Ignorance, Father, Parent, Man, Learn, Boy	M
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.	Emile Henry Gauvreau	Humor	People, Money, Finance, People, Dislike	F
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.	Mark Twain	Humor	People, Majority, Reflect	M
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.	Oscar Wilde	Humor	Imagination, Humor, People, Consolation	M	x
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.	W. Somerset Maugham	Humor	Person, Best, Mediocre	M
Live as if your life depends on it.	Werner Erhard	Humor	Life, Death	M
Never put off enjoyment because there's no time like the pleasant.	Evan Esar	Humor	Time, Pleasure, Enjoyment	M
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.	Franklin P. Jones	Humor	Mistake, Experience, Recognize	M
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then just eat one of the pieces.	Judith Viorst	Humor	Strength, Discipline, Chocolate, Candy	F
Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man – for precisely the same reason.	Douglas Adams	Humor	People, Dolphins, Intelligence, War, Water, Enjoyment, Belief	M
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.	Will Rogers	Humor	Life, Bird, Gossip,	M
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.	Lily Tomlin	Humor	Reality, Confine, Small, Lifestyle	F
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.	Will Rogers	Humor	Hole, Dig, Perception	M	x
My life seems like one long obstacle course, with me as the chief obstacle.	Jack Parr	Humor	Life, Obstacle, Self	M
The future isn’t what it used to be.	Yogi Berra	Humor	Future, Time, Past	M
I am a firm believer in optimism because without optimism, what else is there?	Saul Gorn	Humor	Optimism, Belief	M
Acting’s about truth. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.	George Burns	Humor	Truth, Acting, Fake	M
It’s impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised.	Unknown	Humor	Optimism, Surprise
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.	Mark Twain	Humor	Laughter, War, Nothing	M
Always forgive you enemies; nothing annoys them so much.	Oscar Wilde	Humor	Forgiveness, Enemy, Annoy	M
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.	Mignon McLaughlin	Humor	Society, Dead, Live, Conformity	F
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.	Mignon McLaughlin	Relationship	Marriage, Romance, Love	F	x
All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.	Mark Twain	Humor	Life, Ignorance, Success, Confidence	M
God is good, but never dance in a small boat.	Irish Proverb	Humor	God, Good, Boat, Dance
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.	Unknown	Humor	Train, Track, Path, Action, Right
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.	Unknown	Humor	Fear, Try, Boat
There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.	Cyrus Curtis	Humor	People, Conformity, Follow, Discipline	M
The secret to success is making your vocation your vacation.	Mark Twain	Business	Success, Work, Vacation, Humor	M	x
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.	Oliver Goldsmith	Business	Success, Perseverance	M
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.	Bill Gates	Business	Leadership, Future, Power	M	x
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.	Dwight Eisenhower	Business	Desire, Leadership, Action	M
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.	John Quincy Adams	Business	Action, Inspiration, Learning, More, Leader, Leadership	M
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.	Sun-tzu	Business	Opportunity, Samurai, Growth	M	x
If I get to pick what I want to do, then it's play... if someone else tells me that I have to do it, then it's work.	Patricia Nourot	Business	Work, Play, Choice, Obligation	F
The success of the decisions you make depends ultimately on what you make of your decisions.	Jeff Esper	Business	Success, Decision, Action	M
You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back room. If you want the cooperation of human beings around you, make them feel that they are important. And you do that by being humble.	Nelson Mandela	Business	Danger, Leader, Celebrate, People, Human, Humility	M
A lean purse is easier to cure than endure.	George S. Claso	Business	Money, Finances, Cure	M
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.	Les Brown	Business	Desire, Hunger, Motivation, Obstacles	M
The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, ‘Oh how useless and powerless I am.’ It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, ‘I can do it,’ without boasting or fretting.	Dalai Lama	Business	Failure, Life, Thought, Strength, Power	M
Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.	Florence Scovel Shinn	Business	Vision, Work, Accomplishment, Failure	F
Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Business	Life, Waste, Doubt, Fear, Work, Right, Time	M
Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency – a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.	Dan Millman	Business	Money, Finances, Wealth, Poverty, Creation, Flow, Energy, Life	M
It is noble to charge a fortune for your services if you provide a fortune in value.	James Arthur Ray	Business	Noble, Value, Money, Service, Fortune, Work	M
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place. You can even buy a measured number of their skilled muscular motions per hour, but you cannot buy enthusiasm... you can not buy loyalty. You cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.	Clarence Francis	Business	Money, Work, Purchase, Enthusiasm, Loyalty, Devotion, Heart, Mind, Soul, Earn	M
The most positive and empowering way to relate to money is to let it be a teacher for you. Assume that whatever is happening in your financial reality is in some way a reflection of your internal process, something you can learn from, and something that can help you in your self-development.	Shakti Gawain	Business	Money, Teacher, Learning, Finances, Reality, Reflection, Inner, Process, Self, Help	F
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.	Babe Ruth	Business	Teamwork, Cooperation, Team, Play, Money	M
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.	Sydney Smiles	Business	Monotasking, Action, Effective, Productivity	M
Often he who does too much does too little.	Italian Proverb	Business	Productivity, Action, Small
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.	Alexander Graham Bell	Business	Power, Person, Mind, Knowledge, Determination, Perseverance, Quit, Discovery	M
Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.	Harold Thurman Whitman	Business	World, Need, Self, Life, Action, People, Motivation, Purpose, Success	M
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.	Dr. Albert Schweitzer	Business	Success, Happiness, Action, Love	M	x
Every adversity or failure carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.	Napoleon Hill	Business	Adversity, Failure, Seed, Growth, Success, Opportunity	M
The time will come when you will satisfy a need for money by steadfastly depending on the Master Self within - and not on anything in the world of form. Until you do this, you will continue to experience the uncertainties of supply for the rest of your life. Every soul must learn this lesson, and until it does, it will be given opportunity after opportunity in the form of apparent lack and limitation. You may be experiencing such a challenge right at this moment. Realize that this is the opportunity you have been waiting for to demonstrate the truth of your birthright.	John Randolph Price	Business	Money, Finance, Self, Form, Soul, Learning, Opportunity, Limitation, Experience, Challenge	M
The world beyond will not belong to 'managers' or those who can make the numbers dance. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders — people who will not only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.	Jack Welch	Business	Leaders, Leadership, Passion, Energy, People	M
Every achiever that I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me.’	Dr. Robert H. Schuller	Business	Belief, Self, Transformation	M
Money is the visible sign of a universal force, and this force in its manifestation on earth works on the vital and physical planes and is indispensable to the fullness of the outer life. In its origin and its true action it belongs to the Divine.	Sri Aurobindo	Business	Money, Force, Universal, Physical, Outer, Action, Divine	M
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.	Indira Gandhi	Business	Work, Credit, Competition	F
What is the role of money in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in our prison, or could it also be a tool for breaking out, for awakening to a life filled with intensity of purpose?	Jacob Needleman	Business	Money, Meaning, Prison, Tool, Awakening, Life, Purpose	M
Great innovations when they appear, seem muddled and strange. They are only half understood by their discoverer and remain a mystery to everyone else. But if an idea does not appear bizarre there is no hope for it.	Niels Bohr	Business	Innovation, Discovery	M
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.	Earl Nightingale	Business	Purpose, Happiness, Work, Journey, Goal, Time, Sleep, Life	M
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.	Henry David Thoreau	Business	Money, Soul	M
View money and things not as something you create to fill a lack, but as tools to help you more fully express yourself and realize your potential.	Sanaya Roman & Duane Pack	Business	Money, Tool, Self, Potential	B
The bad leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people praise. The great leader is he who the people say, we did it ourselves.	Lao-tzu	Business	Good, Bad, Great, Taoism, Leader, Empowerment, Community	M
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.	Alvin Toffler	Business	Learning	M
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.	George Lucas	Business	Secret, Hope, Difficulties, Hopeless, Breakthrough	M
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.	Richard Bach	Business	Win, Perception, Attitude, Success, Thought	M
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.	Mary Pickford	Business	Mistake, Failure, Perseverance, Opportunity	F
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.	Winston Churchill	Business	Action, Service, Usefulness	M
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.	George Washington Carver	Business	Attention, Action, Common, Exceptional, World, Success	M	x
Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.	Eknath Easwaran	Business	Need, Deep, Knowledge, Service, People, Action, Usefulness	M
Many people think that by hoarding money they are gaining safety for themselves. If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a person can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Without these qualities, money is practically useless.	Henry Ford	Business	Money, Security, Safety, Independence, People, World, Knowledge, Experience, Action, Skill	M
When flowing water meets with obstacles on its path, a blockage in its journey, it pauses. It increases in volume and strength, filling up in front of the obstacle and eventually spilling past it... Emulate the example of the water: pause and build up your strength until the obstacle no longer represents a blockage.	Marsha Sinetar	Business	Water, Obstacle, Overcome, Breakthrough, Strength, Path, Journey, Pause	F
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	Business	Creation, Ship, Build, Wood, Action, Leadership, Desire, Sea, Ocean, Teach	M	x
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ‘Here comes number seventy-one.’	Richard M DeVos	Business	Success, Perseverance, Determination, Will, End, Obstacle	M
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.	Woodrow Wilson	Business	Purpose, Money, Work, World, Life, Vision, Hope, Wealth, Action, Achievement	M
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.	Dr. Denis Waitley	Business	Failure, Defeat, End, Nothing, Perseverance	M
When busyness is the measure of time, no matter how much time exists it is never enough.	Diana Hunt	Business	Time, Work, Busy, Enough	F
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.	James Levin	Business	Action, Reflection, Quiet, Effective, Productive	M
Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.	Richard Carlson	Business	Reflection, Success, Power, Tool	M
You may be good, but what are you good for? You’ve got to be good for something. You’ve got to be about some project, some task that requires you to be humble and obedient to the universal principles of service.	Stephen R. Covey	Business	Good, Purpose, Action, Humble, Obedient, Universal, Service	M
Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique 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	Business	Goal, Purpose, Service, People, Ecstasy, Spirit, Goal	M
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.	Sun-tzu	Business	Samurai, War, Victory, Defeat, Success, Preparation, Planning	M
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.	Steve Jobs	Business	Focus, Planning, Yes, No, Work, Action, Good, Ideas, Choice	M	x
People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.	Daisaku Ikeda	Business	Growth, Leadership, Challenge, Self, Inspiration, People	M
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.	Bruce Lee	Business	Build, Growth, Transformation, Self, Water, Form	M
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.	John Quincy Adams	Business	Patience, Perseverance, Difficulties, Obstacles, Disappear, Magic, Action	M
The nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.	Aldous Huxley	Business	Universe, Ends, Means, Action, Causality	M
Whether you think you can do it or you think you can’t do it, you’re probably right.	Henry Ford	Business	Thought, Perception, Possibility, Action, Success, Failure, Attitude	M	x
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; it’s the only thing that ever has.	Margaret Mead	Business	Change, World, Community, Action, Work	F
Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.	Frederick B. Wilcox	Business	Progress, Risk, Success, Safety	M
There is no such thing as security. There are only varying degrees of risk.	Robert Allen	Business	Risk, Security	M
Only an organization that does not presume to know will be able to detect and use fresh new information from its environment. Planning must be firmly based on inquiry. Questions keep a business alive.	Paul Hawken	Business	Planning, Knowledge, Fresh, Information, Environment, Inquiry, Questions	M
There’s no such thing as a self-made person. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.	O. Wayne Rollins	Business	Self, Success, Help, Support, Work, People	M
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.	William Feather	Business	Success, Work, Perseverance, People, Determination	M
History records the successes of people with objectives and a sense of direction. Oblivion is the position of small people overwhelmed by obstacles.	William H. Danforth	Business	History, Direction, Focus, Work, People, Small, Obstacles, Failure	M
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.	John Christian Bovee	Business	Failure, Success, Determination, Perseverance, Self, Work	M
The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.	Charles Schwab	Business	Work, Love, Money, Success, Fun, Enjoyment, Person	M
Every rejection is valuable to those who persist.	Robert Allen	Business	Persistence, Determination, Valuable, Rejection, Obstacle, Work	M
Herb True once said, “What people don’t realize is that successful people often have more failures than failures do. But they keep going.” You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.	Robert Allen	Business	Success, Failure, Perseverance, People, Water, Drown, Action, Work	M
The world turns aside to let any person pass who knows whither he or she is going.	David S. Jordan	Business	World, People, Direction, Success, Purpose	M
Goals are as essential to success as air is to life.	David Schwartz	Business	Goal, Purpose, Success, Air, Life, Essential	M
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.	Truman Capote	Business	Failure, Success, Flavor, Taste	M
It takes five years to make an overnight success.	Unknown	Business	Success, Time, Work, Humor
Do or do not do. There is no try.	Yoda	Business	Action, Effort, Work	M
Every time I feel I'm losing my own focus, I ask myself one question: What am I trying to accomplish?	Steve DeMasco	Business	Focus, Question, Accomplishment, Self	M
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.	Thoreau	Business	Planning, Focus, Success, Work	M
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Business	Common, Genius, Work, Clothing, Humor	M	x
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.	Eric Shinseki	Business	Work, Change, Humor, Flexibility	M	x
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.	Benjamin Franklin	Business	Life, Time, love, Waste	M
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.	Bill Cosby	Business	Success, Failure, Key, People, Humor	M
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.	Steve Jobs	Business	Crazy, World, Change, Action, Thought, Work	M	x
You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration.	James Allen	Business	Desire, Aspiration, Small, Great, Transformation	M
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.	Woodrow Wilson	Business	Thought, Brain, Borrow,	M
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.	Victor Hugo	Business	War, Idea, Time, Strength, Army Success	M
One man with courage makes a majority.	Andrew Jackson	Business	Courage, Person, Majority	M
Perform every act as if it were your last.	Marcus Aurelius	Creativity	Action, Death, Success, Focus	M
Self-creation is an act of fire.	M. C. Richards	Creativity	Creation, Fire, Action, Self	F
A job is what we do for money. Work is what we do for love.	Marysarah Quinn	Business	Work, Love, Money	F	x	for the love of it
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.	Theodore Roethke	Business	Impossible, Action, Work	M
A real artist is nothing if not a working person and a damn hard one.	Edward Weston	Creativity	Artist, Work, Person, Success	M
Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.	Epictetus	Insight	Acceptance, Perception, Wish	M
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	Insight	Vision, Eye, Sight, Heart, Essence, Invisible	M	x
We're afraid of feelings. We rush through our lives searching yet not living. For those who have the interest to look closely, life becomes art.	Diane Mariechild	Insight	Fear, Feelings, Rush, Searching, Living, Look, Vision, Perception, Art, Life	F
The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.	Pablo Picasso	Creativity	Creativity, Creation, Nothing	M
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.	Golda Meir	Creativity	Time, Focus	F
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.	Ram Das	Spirit	Quiet, Hear, Silence	M
Some people will never learn anything… because they understand everything too soon.	Alexander Pope	Insight	Learning, Understanding, Patience	M
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.	Maya Angelou	Creativity	Talent, Electricity, Power, Understanding, Usefulness	F
Know the value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.	Lord Chesterfield	Insight	Time, Value, Enjoy, Focus, Tomorrow, Today, Procrastination	M
Only put off until tomorrow what you’re willing to die having left undone.	Pablo Picasso	Creativity	Tomorrow, Death, Procrastination, Work, Action, Time	M
Well begun is half done.	Horace	Business	Work, Beginning	M
Paradise is where I am.	Voltaire	Spirit	Paradise, Self, Presence	M
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling.	Lucretius	Insight	Water, Rain, Hole, Stone, Perseverance, Violence	M
Give me a place to stand and a long enough lever, and I will move the world.	Archimedes	Business	World, Move, Change, Power	M
I would rather see a crooked furrow than a field unplowed.	Paul Jewkes	Business	Perfection, Field, Plow, Action, Work	M
Every great person, every successful person, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.	W. Clement Stone	Business	Adversity, Seed, Benefit, Magic, Person, Perception	M
Give a man a fish and you feed him for the day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.	Lao-tzu	Business	Teach, Learning, Taoism, Food, Time	M
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my ax.	Abraham Lincoln	Business	Preparation, Tree	M
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.	Buddha	Business	Discover, Work, Devotion, Heart	M
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Business	Action, Work, Reward, Satisfaction	M
Excellence in art is, ultimately, a function of wholeness as a human being.	Richard Schechner	Creativity	Art, Excellence, Wholeness, Human	M
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself... then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now!	Goethe	Creativity	Commitment, Action, Creation, Creativity, Truth, Ignorance, Kill, Ideas, Plans, Providence, Support, Success, Perseverance, Dream Genius	M	x
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.	Virginia Woolf	Creativity	Literature, Destruction, Opinion, Criticism	F
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.	Virginia Woolf	Creativity	Truth, Self, People, Write, Artist	F
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.	Virginia Woolf	Creativity	Universe, Order, Creative, Power, Art, Artist	F	x
I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore.	Georgia O'Keeffe	Creativity	Artist, Explore, Women	F
The way you respond to disappointment is usually an accurate predictor of how likely you are to achieve great success. If you respond to disappointment by learning the very most from it, and then by putting it behind you, and then pressing forward, you are very likely to accomplish great things in the course of your life.	Brian Tracy	Business	Disappointment, Success, Perseverance, Learning, Accomplish, Great, Life, Prediction, Work	M
Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you’re expected to do.	Brian Tracy	Business	Success, Life, Action, World	M
I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.	Flannery O’Connor	Creativity	Discover, Thought, Read, Write, Create	F
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.	Alice Walker	Insight	Animals, Existence, Humans	F
The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.	Mother Teresa	Spirit	Death, Disease, Service, Mystic	F
Love is found in loving.	Lama Surya Das	Relationship	Love, Loving, Discovery	M
We must love only occasionally, for a moment, but forever.	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Relationship	Love, Forever, Consistent	M
We are all miracles but seldom act like miracles.	James Baldwin	Insight	Miracles, People, Action	M
A person who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.	Thomas Merton	Business	Failure, Success, Bad,	M
Being happy is not the only happiness.	Alice Walker	Insight	Happiness	F
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.	Alice Walker	Insight	Religion, Holy, Time, Practice	F
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? We were born to manifest the glory that is within us. As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.	Marianne Williamson	Insight	Fear, Power, Light, Darkness, Question, Brilliant, Talent, Glory, Within, Self, Shine, People, Action, Freedom, Liberation	F
If you don't know where you are going, any path will get you there.	Michael Gerber	Business	Path, Direction, Purpose	M
Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me and I'll understand.	Chinese proverb	Business	Learning, Forget, Understanding, Remember
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.	Barry LePartner	Business	Judgment, Experience, Bad, Learning	M
Let the beauty you love be what you do.	Rumi	Creativity	Love, Beauty, Action, Work, Purpose	M
We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.	Anais Nin	Creativity	Writing, Life, Taste	F
Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch of hung on the wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you were meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.	Dr. George Sheehan	Business	Success, Measure, Knowledge, Self, Reward, Perception, Awareness	M
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.	Ken Hakuta	Business	Money, Lack, Obstacle, Idea	M	x
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.	Helen Keller	Insight	Security, Superstition, Nature, Adventure, Nothing, Life	F
There is no purpose for your life greater than to recognize your own beauty, power, and worth, and to share it.	Alan Cohen	Creativity	Purpose, Life, Art, Recognize, Beauty, Power, Worth, Share	M
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.	Albert von Szent-Gyorgy	Creativity	Discover, See, Thought, Nobody	M
One must have chaos in one's self in order to give birth to a dancing star.	Friedrich Nietzsche	Creativity	Chaos, Self, Star, Dance, Birth, Art	M
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.	Angela Monet	Creativity	Dance, Music, Crazy, Insane, Perception	F
All the people we call ‘geniuses’ are men and women who somehow escaped having to put that curious, wondering child in themselves to sleep.	Barbara Sher	Creativity	Genius, People, Curiosity, Child, Sleep, Escape, Wonder, Artist	F
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.	Henry Ward Beecher	Creativity	Nature, Soul, Brush, Artist, Picture	M
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life.	Martha Graham	Creativity	Dance, Life, Affirmation, Energy, Awareness, Mystery, Humor, Wonder, Life	F	x
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.	Albert Einstein	Creativity	Fool, Courage, Violence, Genius	M
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.	Frank A. Clark	Creativity	Growth, Person, Nourish, Roots, Gentle, Criticism, Rain, Destroy	M
If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.	Natalie Goldberg	Creativity	Ideas, Difficulty, Time, Slow, Open, Life, Earth, Present, Now, Discover	F
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.	William James	Creativity	Dreams, Energy, Run, Distance, Self, Devotion, Action	M
The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.	Ursula LeGuin	Creativity	Religion, Problem, Mystic, Activism, Search, Awareness, Action, Identity	F
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.	Ursula LeGuin	Insight	Perception, Beauty, Planets, Life, Dirt, Rock, Pattern	F
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’	Mary Anne Radmacher	Creativity	Courage, Roar, Quiet, Perseverance, Voice, Tomorrow	F
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.	Ursula LeGuin	Creativity	Volcanoes, Mountains, Truth, Experience, Human, Map, New, Creation, Artist	F
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.	William Gilmore Simms	Creativity	Death, Genius, Fear, Fame, Criticism	M
If one pulls on a single thread in nature, you'll find it attached to everything else.	John Muir	Spirit	Nature, Thread, Connection, Discover	M
Because of their courage, their lack of fear, they (creative people) are willing to make silly mistakes. The truly creative person is one who can think crazy; such a person knows full well that many of his great ideas will prove to be worthless. The creative person is flexible -- he is able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. He is not threatened by the unexpected as rigid, inflexible people are.	Frank Goble	Creativity	Courage, Flexibility, Mistakes, Crazy, Person, Ideas, Worthless, Change, Habit, Stress, Unexpected	M
If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities.	Marie-Louise von Franz	Creativity	Devotion, Unconscious, Gift, Life, Adventure, Possibility, Person	F
To be authentic is literally to be your own author… to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.	Warren G. Bennis	Creativity	Energy, Authentic, Desire, Discover, Action, Artist	M
Don’t discard your fantasies as merely wishful thinking. Honor them as messages from the deepest part of your being about what you can do and directions you can choose.	Sanaya Roman & Duane Packer	Creativity	Fantasy, Thinking, Honor, Message, Deep, Being, Self, Direction, Choice, Dream	B
Everybody builds a dream in their lifetime. You’re either going to build your dream, or somebody else's. So build your own!	Christopher LaBrec	Creativity	Dream, Life, Build, Self	M	x
My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword.	Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	Creativity	Wealth, Quiet, Stillness, Grow, Win, World Fire, Sword, Effort	M
It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.	Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone	Creativity	Quiet, Stillness, Mistake, Belief, Efficient, Effective, Self, Assume, Waste, Time, Thought	M
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."	Mary Lou Cook	Creativity	Invent, Experiment, Growth, Rules, Break, Mistake, Fun	F
"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"	George Bernard Shaw	Creativity	Perception, Dream, See,	M	x
"You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts."	Cochise	Creativity	Sunlight, Speech, Heart, Words, Native American	M
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”	Frank Lloyd Wright	Creativity	Belief, Creation, Perception	M
"Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring."	Grace Lichtenstein	Creativity	Adventure, Discovery, Self, Secret, Fuel, Daring, End	F
"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."	Ralph Gerard	Creativity	Reason, Imagination, Questions, Answer	M
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."	Muhammad Ali	Creativity	Imagination, Wings, Person	M
"Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what's real. We can let go of the unconscious belief that being anxious about the past or the future will somehow protect us and instead reprogram our cells with new ways of responding."	Doc Childre	Creativity	Creation, Feeling, Thought, Real, Belief, Past, Future, Protect Cells, Perception, Anxiety	M
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."	Mark Twain	Creativity	Imagination, Focus, Eyes, Sight, Vision	M	x
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the hour of new clarity.	Rainer Maria Rilke	Creativity	Birth, Future, Images, Fear, Time, Wait, Clarity, Patience	M
“It is never about how good your voice is; it is only about feeling the urge to sing, and then having the courage to do it with the voice you are given.”	Elizabeth Berg	Creativity	Good, Voice, Feeling, Sing, Courage, Gift	F
"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."	Anthony Jay	Creativity	Creative, Mind, Questions, Answers, Perceive	M
"I want to know the thoughts of God; the rest are details."	Albert Einstein	Creativity	Thoughts, God, Details, Desire	M
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power of judgment. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller, and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and a lack of harmony or portion is more readily seen.	Leonardo Da Vinci	Creativity	Relaxation, Judgment, Work, Action, Distance, Small, Harmony, Perception, Rest, Lack	M
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."	T. S. Eliot	Creativity	Risk, Distance, Potential, Discovery	M
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."	Langston Hughes	Creativity	Dreams, Death, Broken, Bird, Wing, Fly, Life	M
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."	Albert Einstein	Creativity	Imagination, Thought, Gift, Fantasy, Talent, Knowledge, Positive, Examination, Self, Reflection	M
"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born."	Dale Turner	Creativity	Dreams, Age, Possibilities, Beauty, Birth, Within, Self	M
“In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It’s the place of reflection and contemplation, and it’s the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.”	Angeles Arrien	Creativity	Mystery, Reflection, Contemplation, Deep, Knowing, Wisdom, Silence, Touch	F
"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."	Albert Einstein	Creativity	Rational, Thinking, Discovery	M
"Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities."	Erica Jong	Creativity	Sex, Creativity, Action, Dictators	F
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how… The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."	Agnes De Mille	Creativity	Life, Knowing, Artist, Wrong, Leap, Darkness, Guess	F
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression in unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is; nor how valuable it is; nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.	Martha Graham	Creativity	Vitality, Life, Force, Action, Time, Expression, Unique, Block, Exist, Lost, World, Good, Judgment, Self, Open, Believe, Work, Awareness, Motivation, Artist, Self, Satisfaction, Divine, Alive, Inspiration	F	x
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."	Thornton Wilder	Creativity	Heart, Conscious, Treasure, Alive, Life, Perception	M

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Creativity	Life, Trust, Self, Knowledge,	M
Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen.	Buddha	Creativity	Distance, See, Vision, Perception	M	x
A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free.	Nikos Kazantzakis	Creativity	Madness, Crazy, Freedom, Daring	M
Motivation is what happens when you take hold of an idea. Inspiration is what happens when an idea takes hold of you.	Wayne Dyer	Creativity	Motivation, Inspiration, Idea, Self, Hold	M
"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway. We might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use."	Earl Nightingale	Creativity	Fear, Time, Accomplish, Action, Useful	M
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."	John Keats	Creativity	Discouragement, Failure, Positive, Experience, Highway, Success, Discovery, False, Path, True, Fresh, Error, Avoid	M
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.	Imogen Cunningham	Creativity	Photograph, Image, Photographer, Artist, Tomorrow, Favorite	F
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.	Ansel Adams	Creativity	Photographer, Photograph, Artist, Create	M
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.	Ansel Adams	Creativity	Photographer, Photograph, Artist, Create	M
I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing.	John Cage	Creativity	Mystery, Unknown, Action, Creation, Art	M
"Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else, and out of your self create, impatiently or patiently... the most irreplaceable of things."	Andre Gide	Creativity	Individuality, Unique, Action, Writing, Self, Nothing, Creation	M
"Do everything with so much love you would never want to do it another way."	Yogi Amrit Desai	Creativity	Love, Action	M
"If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavor to live the life you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. You will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within you and you will live with a higher order of beings. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them."	Henry David Thoreau	Creativity	Direction, Dreams, Live, Life, Common, Success, Invisible, Boundary, Universal, Laws Within, Self, Higher, Being, Castles, Air, Work, Lost, Foundation, Artist	M	x
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.	George Bernard Shaw	Creativity	Play, Aging, Old	M	x
There is only one of you in the world, just one. And if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.	Martha Graham	Creativity	World, Lost, Self	F
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.	Matt Hardy	Creativity	Beauty, Perception, Photograph	M
No choicer gift can any man give to another than his spirit’s intimate conversation with itself.	Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher	Creativity	Gift, Spirit, Conversation, Self, Give, Service, Artist	M	x
"Motivation is an external, temporary high that pushes you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward."	Thomas Leonard	Creativity	Motivation, Inspiration, Pull, Glow, Internal, Inner, Push, Sustainable, Temporary	M
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."	Thomas Edison	Creativity	Action, Capable, Astound, Self, Surprise, Potential	M
"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk."	Raymond Inmon	Creativity	Walk, Creative, Ideas, Angels, Whisper, Inspiration, Listen	M
"I do not know what I am to the world, but to myself, I am but a small boy, playing on the seashore, searching for an ever more perfect pebble or seashell, while before me lies the great ocean of truth."	Sir Isaac Newton	Creativity	Sea, Ocean, Perfect, Seashell, Truth, World, Boy, Play	M
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.	Picasso	Creativity	Art, Lie, Realization, Truth, Artist	M
Beauty is convulsive, or not at all.	André Breton	Creativity	Beauty, Art, Feeling	M
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.	Soren Kierkegaard	Creativity	Potential, Possible, Perception, See, Eye, Wealth, Power, Passion	M
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.	George Bernard Shaw	Creativity	Path, Trail, Follow, Discover, Exploration	M
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.	Albert Einstein	Creativity	Mysterious, Mystery, Art, Science, Beauty, Experience, True	M
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.	R. Buckminster Fuller	Creativity	Direction, Discover, Exploration	M
Talent is nothing but long patience.	Gustave Flaubert	Creativity	Talent, Patience,	M
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.	Henry Van Dyke	Creativity	Talent, Possess, Woods, Birds, Sing, Best, Silent, Action	M
I have a song to sing and I will sing it, although I am alone in an empty house and must sing to my own ears.	Nietzsche	Creativity	Song, Sing, Alone, Empty, House, Ears, Solitude	M
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.	Diane Arbus	Creativity	Photograph, Photographer, Secret, Knowledge, Less, Mystery	F
I just took the energy it takes to pout and wrote the blues.	Duke Ellington	Creativity	Energy, Pout, Blues, Sad, Creation, Transformation	M
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.	Reggie Leach	Creativity	Success, Fire, Self, Effort, Result, Spontaneous, Artist	M	x
A writer, or for that matter any artist, is continually putting demands on the subconscious and producing results.	Louis L’Amour	Creativity	Writer, Artist, Subconscious, Demand, Results	M
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.	Vincent Van Gogh	Creativity	Fire, Great, Soul, Alone, Smoke, People, Artist, Solitude	M
As artists, to cause awareness is our only strength.	Unknown	Creativity	Artist, Awareness, Strength, Purpose, Create
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.	Miller	Creativity	Art, Abundance, Life, Means, Point, Direction, People, Artist, End, Defeat	M
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.	T. S. Eliot	Creativity	Poetry, Communicate, Understanding, Genuine	M
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters. United with her, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of their marvels.	Goya	Creativity	Fantasy, Reason, Monster, Mother, Art, Origin, Unite	M
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing / than teach ten thousand stars not to dance.	E. E. Cummings	Creativity	Bird, Sing, Dance, Stars, Learn	M
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.	John F. Kennedy	Creativity	Problems, Difficulties, Solution, Skeptic, Cynic, Horizon, Limit, Obvious, Reality, People, Dream, Possibilities, Imagination	M	x
You vote for reality with your imagination.	Unknown	Creativity	Imagination, Reality, Vote, Perception
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.	Pablo Picasso	Creativity	Steal, Copy, Artists, Good, Great	M
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.	T. S. Eliot	Creativity	Immature, Mature, Poets, Copy	M
I took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.	Pablo Picasso	Creativity	Painter, Artist, Paint, Lifetime, Child	M
Art flourishes when there is a sense of adventure.	Alfred North Whitehead	Creativity	Art, Artist, Adventure, Flourish	M
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.	Ansel Adams	Creativity	Photography, Photographs, Good, Rules	M
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.	Vincent Van Gogh	Creativity	Great, Impulse, Small, Art, Artist, Intention	M
“No distinction can be drawn between art and contemplation. The artists is first of all required to remove himself from human to celestial levels of appreciation; at this level and in a state of unification, no longer having in view anything external to himself, he sees and realizes, that is to say becomes, what he is afterwards to represent…”	Rama Choomarasawmy	Creativity	Art, Artist, Contemplation, Human, Celestial, Realm, Appreciation, Unity, External, Perception, Realization, Self	M	x
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.	Ansel Adams	Creativity	Focus, Concept, Sharp, Art	M
Being an artist doesn't take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it's no big deal. They are one and the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.	Hubert Selby, Jr.	Creativity	Art, Artist, Life, Giving, Death, Embrace, Transcend, Gods, Price, Worth	M	x
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.	D. H. Lawrence	Creativity	Soul, Beauty, Need	M
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.	Dr. Seuss	Creativity	Brain, Awaken, Nonsense, Telescope, Life, Wrong, Laugh, Reality	M
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.	Gertrude Stein	Creativity	Genius, Nothing, Time, Sit	F
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Human, Whole, Universe, Time, Space, Experience, Self, Thought, Feeling, Separate, Illusion, Consciousness, Delusion, Prison, Desire, Affection, People, Near, Task, Freedom, Circle, Compassion, Embrace, Life, Animals, Nature, Beauty, Perception	M	x
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."	Carl Jung	Spirit	Sleep, Awaken, Outside, Within, Vision, Clear, Heart	M
“I feel myself so much a part of all life that I am not in the least concerned with the beginning or the end of the concrete existence of any particular person in this unending stream.”	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Life, Connection, Beginning, End, Existence, Person, Stream, Endless, Feeling, Mystical	M
“The two worlds, the divine and the human... are actually one. The realm of the gods is a forgotten dimension of the world we know.”	Joseph Campbell	Spirit	Gods, Divine, World, Realm, Human, Forget	M
"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it."	Thich Nhat Hanh	Spirit	Choice, Spirit, Moment	M
"Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail. ... The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life."	Christina Baldwin	Spirit	Spirituality, Sacred, Center, Life, Mundane, Soul, Ordinary	F
"All of your self-honoring choices will tend to promote your sense of dignity, personal and authentic power, and sense of balance. Sometimes the most self-honoring choices don't come easy and don't feel good at all; They may feel risky, difficult and uncertain. Other times the most self-honoring choices will feel completely natural to you -- they'll feel exhilarating, giving you a sense of liberation and joyous self-actualization."	Sandra Anne Taylor	Spirit	Authentic, Honor, Power, Balance, Self, Choice, Dignity, Good, Risk, Difficult, Liberation, Actualization	F
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."	Soren Kierkegaard	Spirit	God, Prayer, Influence, Change	M
"Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states."	Eknath Easwaran	Spirit	Meditation, Change, Lifetime, Master, Judge, Progress, Questions, Loving, Energy, Mind, Calm, Challenge, Anger, Fear, Greed, Spiritual, Awareness, Character, Development, Growth, Action, Mystical	M
“I don’t think God cares where we were graduated or what we did for a living. God wants to know who we are. Discovering this is the work of the soul – it is our true life’s work.”	Bernie Siegel	Spirit	Work, God, Career, Being, Self, Discover, Soul, Life	M
"All spiritual disciplines are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit."	Ram Das	Spirit	Stillness, Quiet, Mine, Perfect, Mind, Spirit, Spiritual	M
"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it."	Harry Emerson Fosdick	Spirit	Life, World, Mystery, Small, Mind, Understanding, Thought	M
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?"	William A. Ward	Spirit	God, Time, Gratitude, Gift	M
“Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.”	Eknath Easwaran	Spirit	Feed, Ego, Problems, Difficulties, Attention, Nothing, Ghost, Self, See, Divine, Shine, Presence	M
“It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.”	Thomas Moore	Spirit	Soul, Hero, Ambition, Productivity, Efficiency, Creative, Nurture, Quiet, Stillness, Reflection, Beauty, Pleasure, Connection, Relationship, Animal, Rest, Action	M
“For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.”	Robert Fulghum	Spirit	Intention, Habit, Wrong, Anger, Soul, Attention	M
"The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation."	Milarepa	Spirit	Meditation, World, Forever, Time	M
"The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions."	Alan Cohen	Spirit	World, Perception, Limitation, Light, Fly, Soar, Bird, Sacred, Vision	M	x
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me."	Erma Bombeck	Spirit	God, Life, Death, Hope, Talent, Purpose, Work	F
"We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with pure, unconditioned awareness."	Eknath Easwaran	Spirit	Motivation, Mind, Teach, Learn, Pure, Negative, Awareness, Conditioning	M
"Man loves because he is love. He seeks joy, for he is joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without God."	Sathya Sai Baba	Spirit	Love, Being, Self, Joy, God, Existence,	M
"Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity can cause to be set in motion. Be outrageous in forgiving. Be dramatic in reconciling. Mistakes? Back up and make them as right as you can, then move on. Be off the charts in kindness. In whatever you are called to, strive to be devoted to it in all aspects large and small. Fall short? Try again. Mastery is made in increments, not in leaps. Be brave, be fierce, be visionary. Mend the parts of the world that are within your reach. To strive to live this way is the most dramatic gift you can ever give to the world."	Clarissa Pinkola Estes	Spirit	Soul, Self, Action, Burden, World, Small, Word, Speech, Generosity, Motion, Forgiveness, Mistakes, Right, Kindness, Devotion, Large, Small, Mastery, Brave, Vision, Heal, Life, Gift, Service, Purpose, Support, Help	F	x
If our ego is to know spirit, we must make the first move. Spirit does not come down and knock on our door. It sits waiting for us to acknowledge it. We must want to change and take the initiative and persevere. The love of spirit will embrace us. But we must take the first steps. In what areas of your life are you ready for change? What step can you take to open the door to new possibilities? It starts with you. Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move."	Betty Eadie	Spirit	Faith, Movement, Ego, Spirit, Knock, Door, Sit, Wait, Acknowledgment, Change, Initiative, Perseverance, Love, Embrace, Step, Life, Possibilities, Self, Action	F
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.	Jackie Gleason	Spirit	Dreams, Creation, Life, Infinite, Creativity, Power, God, Universe	M
"When we take one step toward God, God takes seven steps toward us."	Hindu Proverb	Spirit	Step, God, Self, Intention, Support, Help
"All major mystical traditions have recognized that there is a paradox at the heart of the journey of return to Origin.... Put simply, this is that we are already what we seek, and that what we are looking for on the Path with such an intensity of striving and passion and discipline is already within and around us at all moments. The journey and all its different ordeals are all emanations of the One Spirit that is manifesting everything in all dimensions; every rung of the ladder we climb toward final awareness is made of the divine stuff of awareness itself; Divine Consciousness is at once creating and manifesting all things and acting in and as all things in various states of self-disguise throughout all the different levels and dimensions of the universe."	Andrew Harvey	Spirit	Mystical, Universe, Paradox, Heart, Journey, Being, Self, Journey, Seeking, Look, Path, Passion, Striving, Discipline, Within, Time, Manifest, Realms, Ladder, Climb, Awareness, Divine, Disguise, Creation, Creativity, Origin, Oneness, Unity	M
"The next message you need is right where you are."	Ram Das	Spirit	Message, Need, Presence, Help, Support	M
"I think we would be able to live in this world more peaceably if our spirituality were to come from looking not just into infinity but very closely at the world around us - and appreciating its depth and divinity."	Thomas Moore	Spirit	Live, World, Peace, Spirituality, Looking, Perception, Infinity, Appreciation, Depth, Divinity	M
Love tells me I am everything. Wisdom tells me I am nothing. And between the two my life flows.	Swami Nisargadatta	Spirit	Love, Message, Wisdom, Nothing, Everything	M	x
A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of oneness.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Oneness, Unity, Perception, Task, Liberate, Free, Prison, Compassion, Life, Separation, Sight, Delusion	M	x
"Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding."	Myla & Jon Kabat-Zinn	Spirit	Mindfulness, Present, Awareness, Judgment, Development, Capacity, Attention, Intention, Moment, Time, Process, Touch, Life, Self	B
"Utilizing your conscious mind to direct the subconscious mind to enter into communication and harmony with the universal mind is the secret of personal power."	Leslie Fieger	Spirit	Consciousness, Unconscious, Mind, Communication, Harmony, Universal, Universe, Power, Self	F	x
"People ask what must they become to be loving. The answer is ‘nothing.’ It is a process of letting go of what you thought you had become and allowing your true nature to float to the surface naturally."	Stephen Levine	Spirit	Question, Loving, Nothing, Release, Thought, Truth, Nature, Float, Surface, Acceptance	M
"When you have compassion and surrender to your own heart, you are surrendering to the hidden power in your heart, God. You are surrendering to love, because God is Love, the cohesive force of the universe that connects us all. Surrender is not just a religious concept; it's a power tool for listening to the voice of your spirit and following its directions. When you surrender your head to your heart, you allow your heart to give you a wider, higher intelligence perspective. Remember the phrase, ‘The real teacher is within you.’ Very simply, that teacher is to be found in the common sense of your own heart."	Sara Paddison	Spirit	Compassion, Heart, Surrender, Hidden, Heart, God, Love, Force, Universe, Connection, People, Religious, Concept, Power, Tool, Voice, Direction, Intelligence, Perspective, Teacher, Within, Self	F
If your heart is pure, then all things in this world are pure.	Zen saying	Spirit	Pure, Heart, World, Perception, Zen
The only thing that wants to get rid of the ego is the ego.	Ken Wilber	Spirit	Ego, Self, Desire	M
Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Slavery, Freedom, Books, Learning, Reading, Path	M
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Blood, Fruit, Stars, Collapse, Science, Astronomy, Universe	M	x
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Dolphin, Learning, Human	M
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Astronomy, Science, Humanity, War, Violence, Cosmic, Blood, Misunderstanding, Kill, Death, Hatred, Universe, Darkness, Conceit, Human, World, Small, Responsibility, Kindness, Compassion, Relationship, Home	M
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Small, Animals, Love, Vast, Relationship	M	x
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers	Carl Sagan	Insight	Questions, Answers, Depth, Courage, World, Meaning	M
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Cosmic, Perspective, Precious, Human, Disagreement, Tolerance, Live, Universe	M	x
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.	Carl Sagan	Spirit	Science, Spirituality, Recognize, Universe, Time, Humility, Emotions, Art, Music, Literature, Courage, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr.,	M
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."	Carl Sagan	Insight	Books, Reading, Tree, Leaves, Voice, Time, Person, Dead, Author, Head, Human, Invention, People, Magic	M
"Spiritual growth is not made in reaction against, for all striving against imposed restrictions is imaginary. Spiritual growth is accomplished by inclination toward. We grow like the sunflower, following the light."	Joy Houghton	Spirit	Spiritual, Growth, Reaction, Striving, Obstacles, Light, Flower	F
If you realized that the nurtured spiritual part of yourself would accompany you on your eternal journey and that everything that you have labored so hard to accumulate would vanish the instant you depart this world, would it alter your daily agenda?	Walter Cooper	Spirit	Spiritual, Self, Eternal, Journey, Work, Disappear, Vanish, World, End, Death, Routine, Habit, Change	M
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.	Buddha	Spirit	Happiness, Fire, Flame, Candle, Sharing, Generosity	M
Being self-centered is healthy if you know who is the self you are centered in.	Alan Cohen	Spirit	Self, Knowledge, Center, Awareness, Perception	M
"Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one."	Deepak Chopra	Spirit	Union, Enlightenment, Oneness, Mask, Illusion, Separation, Appearance, Wholeness, Perception, Seeing	M
"To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflections of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit."	Paramahansa Yogananda	Spirit	Difference, Person, God, Reflection, Soul, Thought, Stranger, Oneness, Unity	M
"God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life."	Jacob Needleman	Spirit	God, History, Ideas, Experiences, Understanding, People, Heart, Life, Conscious	M
I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.	John F. Kennedy	Spirit	Dust, Time, Victory, Defeat, Battle, War, Politics, Contribution, Spirit, Human, Purpose, Work	M
God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction.	Meister Eckhart	Spirit	God, Addition, Subtraction, Discovery, Self	M
"Yea, let all those who have ears to hear, listen. For I tell you this: at the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now?"	Neale Donald Walsch	Spirit	Love, Action, Ears, Listen, Human, Relationships, Question	M	x
"Sharing is the very foundation, the source. Share your truth, share your meditation, share your love. Share whatsoever inner beauty arises in you, whatsoever inner glow arises in you. Share your inner flame and never be a miser, and you will become richer and richer, and there is no end to that richness."	Osho	Spirit	Sharing, Giving, Generosity, Truth, Meditation, Love, Beauty, Inner, Self, Glow, Flame, Fire, Wealth, Self	M
“There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts – a sense of wonder.”	Andrew Schneider	Spirit	Wonder, Spirituality, Similarity, Faith, Science, Religion, Nature, Art	M
“We live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Life wants to lead you from crumbs to angels, but this can happen only if you are willing to unwrap the ordinary by staying with it long enough to harvest its treasure.”	Macrina Wiederkehr	Spirit	World, Holy, Ordinary, Burning, Fire, Tree, Angel, Hidden, Beauty, Crumb, Discovery, Treasure, Perception, Divine	F
"Allow the heavens and stars to praise your ability to become no-thing in a comfortable state of forgiving mindlessness. From this location God exists as your partner and you dance together as one spirit inside the rhythm of the cosmos."	Michael Levy	Spirit	Heaven, Stars, Nothing, Comfort, Forgiveness, Self, God, Partner, Dance, Rhythm, Universe, Oneness, Unity	M
Because God is real, the more real you are, the more you are like God.	Alan Cohen	Spirit	God, Truth, Self, Authenticity	M
One's true religion is what one cares about most.	Walter Starcke	Spirit	Religion, Priority, Care, True	M
"We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with Creation more and more deeply, we will respond to its endangerment with a sacred passion."	Hildegard von Bingen	Spirit	Justice, Creation, Awaken, Love, Deep, Respond, Threat, Passion, Sacred, Protect	F
"True self simply refers to the aspect of our being that is completely aware of its expanded nature no matter what we may be experiencing in our lives."	Martia Nelson	Spirit	True, Self, Being, Aware, Experience, Life, Vast	F
"As long as I am this or that, I am not all things."	Meister Eckhart	Spirit	Identity, Oneness, Unity, Self, Thought	M
Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have to be here now, in this very moment, and we have to know what is happening internally and externally. It means being alert to our motives and learning to change unwholesome thoughts and emotions into wholesome ones. Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.	Ayya Khema	Spirit	Mindfulness, Present, Internal, External, Within, Motives, Learning, Change, Thoughts, Emotions, Transform, Wholesome, Suffering, Freedom, Buddha, Mind, Presence	F
"The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom."	Jack Kornfield	Spirit	Spiritual, Life, Discovery, Consciousness, Present, Welcome, Spirit, Wisdom, Heart, Kindness, Beauty, Suffering, Buddhist, Confusion, Fear, Injustice, World, Honoring, Truth, Freedom, Path	M
"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."	Aart Van Der Leeuw	Spirit	Mystery, Life, Problem, Reality, Experience	M	x
You can't get a right brain answer to a left brain question. Ask your heart, not your mind.	Alan Cohen	Spirit	Brain, Question, Answer, Ask, Heart, Mind	M
“We live in a world that needs more soul, more meaning. We, as conscious beings, have, as our primary responsibility, at this time in human history, the task of bringing soul into the world, or releasing soul into the world. We do this, first of all, in ourselves and in our own personal world; then we do it in our groups – including family; then we do it in our society through our work, relationships and presence there.”	Andrew Schneider	Spirit	World, Soul, Meaning, Conscious, Relationships, Work, Society, History, Human, Self, Inner, Community, Family, Transformation, Change	M
"I'm not here to be successful. I'm here to be faithful."	Mother Teresa	Spirit	Success, Faith, Work, Action, Devotion, Service	F	x
"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."	Dalai Lama	Spirit	Essence, Love, Religion, Compassion, Kindness, God, Authenticity, Human, Devotion	M
Love is natural. Cynicism is learned. Come home.	Alan Cohen	Spirit	Cynicism, Love, Home, Natural	M
The first step to waking up is the discovery that you have been asleep.	Alan Cohen	Spirit	Awaken, Sleep, Discovery, Perception,	M
The inferior teacher tells you that something is wrong with you and offers to fix it. The superior teacher tells you that something is right with you and helps you bring it forth.	Alan Cohen	Spirit	Wrong, Teacher, Right, Support, Help, Self, Inferior, Superior	M
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.	Alan Cohen	Spirit	Enlightenment, Perfection, Presence, Stand, Ask	M
"If you don’t see God in all, then you don’t see God at all."	Unknown	Spirit	God, Unity, Oneness, See, Perception
"Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Spirit	Great, People, Spiritual, Force, Material, Perception, See, Thoughts	M
"Without the assistance of the Divine Being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail."	Abraham Lincoln	Spirit	Assistance, Help, Divine, God, Being, Success, Failure	M
"When we see ourselves as greater than others, when we place humankind above other creatures, above and beyond the realms of the birds and the fishes, outside the world of stone and the colors, we give away our power. Only when we see we are part of everything, joined to creation, bound to all the realms and integrated into the web of life, do we begin to call on our full potential."	Barry Brailsford	Spirit	See, Perception, Unity, Oneness, Animals, Birds, Fish, Power, Creation, Womb, Life, Potential, Connection, Web, Self	M	x
The Eight Blunders (The Causes of All the Violence in the World) /1. Wealth without work / 2. Pleasure without conscience / 3. Knowledge without character / 4. Commerce without morality / 5. Science without humanity / 6. Worship without sacrifice / 7. Politics without principles / 8. Rights without responsibilities	Gandhi	Spirit	Causality, Violence, Mistake, Wealth, Work, Pleasure, Conscience, Knowledge, Character, Business, Morality, Science, Humanity, Religion, Sacrifice, Politics, Principles, Responsibility	M
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.	Empedocles	Spirit	God, Circle, Center, Nowhere, Unity, Oneness	M
Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.	Buddha	Spirit	Path, Work, Belief, Angels, God, Exploration, Discovery, Heart, Mind, Body, Truth, Diligence	M	x
"He moves and he moves not; He is far, yet is near. He is within all that is, yet is also outside. The man who sees all beings in the self, and the self in all beings, is free from all fear."	Upanishads	Spirit	Unity, Oneness, Movement, Within, Self, Fear, Freedom, See, Perception
"If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, since whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth."	Chief Seattle	Spirit	Animals, Native American, Spirit, Loneliness, Death, Connection, Earth, Son, Relationship	M	x
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.	Chief Seattle	Spirit	Human, Earth, Web, Life, Blood, Unity, Oneness, Connection, Unite, Strand, Native American	M
One thing we know - there is only one God. No man, be he Red man or White man, can be apart. We ARE all brothers after all.	Chief Seattle	Spirit	God, Unity, Oneness, Connection, Unite, Native American, Brother	M
"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."	Galileo Galilei	Spirit	Sun, Fruit, Ripe, Universe, Planets, Dependent	M
"There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."	Max Planck	Spirit	Science, Matter, Material, Force, Conscious, Mind, Matrix, Quantum	M
The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even now in this very room.	Morpheus	Spirit	Matrix, Illusion, Truth	M
"The wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us. It is because of the delusion under which our mind works that we fail to realize it ourselves, and we seek the advice and the guidance of enlightened ones."	Daijan Hui-neng	Spirit	Wisdom, Enlightenment, Delusion, Confusion, Mind, Realization, Seek, Teachers, Advice, Guidance	M
Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.	Tielhard de Chardin	Spirit	Joy, Presence, God, Sign, Attitude	M
"The older I grow, the more I trust in the law by which the rose and the lily bloom."	Goethe	Spirit	Rose, Flower, Bloom, Law, Aging, Trust, Nature	M
"Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from your childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it, and help others live up to it."	Buddha	Spirit	Belief, Childhood, Reason, Truth, Self, Analysis, Discover, Good, Service, Live, Help, Support	M
Everything sacred moves in a Circle.	Black Elk	Spirit	Native American, Sacred, Circle	M
Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food.	Hippocrates	Spirit	Food, Medicine, Health	M
Sometimes naked, sometimes mad, now as a scholar, now as a fool, thus they appear on earth - the free ones!	Unknown	Spirit	Naked, Scholar, Fool, Freedom
In honoring our own unique destiny, we allow our most personal life to become an expression of the Buddha in a new form.	Jack Kornfield	Spirit	Destiny, Unique, Buddha, Personal, Life, Self, Expression, Form, Individuality	M
Concentration is the foundation of wisdom.	Buddha	Spirit	Concentration, Wisdom, Buddhist	M
Body impermanent like spring mist; mind insubstantial like empty sky; thoughts unestablished like breezes in space. Think about these three points over and over.	Adept Godrakpa	Spirit	Impermanence, Mind, Empty, Sky, Thoughts, Breeze, Space, Think, Emptiness, Spring, Mist	M
You have been hired by the universe to be yourself.	Unknown	Spirit	Universe, Self, Work, Being
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.	Dalai Lama	Spirit	Kindness, Possibility, Practice, Consistency, Buddhism	M	x
When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.	Buddha	Spirit	Speech, Words, Kindness, Truth, Change, World, Buddhist	M	x
There are two great days in a person's life; the day we are born and the day we discover why.	William Barclay	Spirit	Life, Meaning, Purpose, Discovery, Birth	M	x
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.	Abraham Lincoln	Spirit	Good, Bad, Action, Religion, Feelings	M
"It's easy to feel grateful when we receive a raise, meet the love of our life, or watch our children succeed, but spiritual gratitude is not circumstantial. It arises from a true knowing that God is our Source. We can feel thankful for every day, even in the middle of life's challenges."	Mary Manin Morrissey	Spirit	Gratitude, Feeling, Love, Children, Spiritual, Knowing, God, Source, Challenges, Life, Day	F
"Spirit has placed a dream in your heart for a better world, starting with your family, extending to your work, community, country and stretching beyond your nation. Speak your truth and inspire others, for you are meant to make a significant and sizable difference."	Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey	Spirit	Spirit, Heart, World, Improvement, Family, Work, Action, Community, Nation, Country, Inspire, Change	F
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.	Saint Augustine	Spirit	Immortality, Life, Remember, Live, Key	M
Everybody has to be alert, aware, and drop all false hopes. Nobody can save you, and nobody has ever saved anybody. Masters have only shown the way. Because they have traveled on the path, they can save you unnecessary wandering, they can show you the straight way. But nobody can walk for you.	Osho	Spirit	False, Hope, Save, Self, Masters, Teachers, Search, Path, Walk, Straight	M
When you see that God acts through you at every moment, in every movement of mind and body, you attain true freedom. When you realize the truth, and cling to nothing in the world, you enter eternal life.	Upanishads	Spirit	Hindu, Eternal, Life, God, Oneness, Action, Movement, Mind, Body, Freedom, Truth, World, Self
"I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside!"	Rumi	Spirit	Life, Confusion, Insanity, Crazy, Door, Knock, Inside, Reason, Thinking, Search, Sufi	M
"In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides, I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us. Namaste."	Ram Das	Spirit	Spirit, Universe, Unity, Oneness, Truth, Peace, Love, Light, India	M
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.	Henry David Thoreau	Creativity	Dreams, Confidence, Direction, Life, Live, Imagination	M	x
When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.	Lakota proverb	Spirit	Human, Nature, Heart, Hard, Separation, Native American
We are star-stuff contemplating the stars.	Carl Sagan	Spirit	Star, Contemplation, Self, Awareness, Oneness, Universe	M	x
A spiritual life doesn't make you a good person. You are a good person; you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.	Jack Kornfield	Spirit	Spiritual, Life, Good, Person, Holy, Birth, Remind, Self, True	M
“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”	Thich Nhat Hanh	Spirit	Time, Possibilities, Present, Awareness, Potential	M
I used to be an atheist until I realized I am god.	Alfred North Whitehead	Spirit	God, Atheism, Self, Awareness	M
To discover one’s own divinity is to become incapable of denying it in others.	Shalom	Spirit	Divinity, Self, Awareness, Perception, Truth, People, Discover	M
The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.	Gregory David Roberts	Spirit	Truth, Oneness, Universe, God, Atom, Galaxy, Space, Movement, Awareness, Self, People	M
To grasp God’s beauty, you must become God.	Rumi	Spirit	God, Beauty, Sufi, Mystical	M
All I want to do is learn to think like God thinks. All the other things are just details.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Learn, Think, Thought, God, Purpose, Science, Learning	M
Mind creates the abyss – the heart crosses it.	Nisagardatta Maharaj	Spirit	Mind, Abyss, Heart	M	x
Christ’s birth is always happening. And yet if it doesn’t happen now, how can it help me? Everything depends on that.	Meister Eckhart	Spirit	Christ, Birth, Now, Help, Mystical	M
Liberation is liberation from the idea of liberation.	Wei Wu Wei	Spirit	Liberation, Freedom, Awareness	M
It's no use walking anywhere to preach anything unless our walking is our preaching.	St. Francis of Assisi	Spirit	Walk, Preach, Teach, Embody, Consistent	M
You will find yourself knee-deep in ecstasy when all your talents to love have reached their heights.	Hafiz	Spirit	Ecstasy, Love, Talent, Mystical, Sufi, Height	M
I believe that a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.	Walt Whitman	Spirit	Grass, Journey, Stars, Universe, Mystical	M
Even in the human languages there is no proposition that does not imply the entire universe; to say the tiger is to say the tigers that begot it, the deer and turtles devoured by it, the grass on which the deer fed, the earth that was mother to the grass, the heaven that gave birth to the earth.	Jorge Luis Borges	Spirit	Language, Human, Universe, Unity, Oneness, Nature, Animals, Grass, Earth, Mother, Heaven	M
"The history of literature is not the history of authors and their careers, but the history of 'Spirit as the producer and consumer of literature.' "	Jorge Luis Borges	Spirit	Literature, Creation, Consumption, History, Authors, Writers	M
“The world is ‘the infinite effect of an infinite cause’ and divinity is near ‘because it is in us even more than we ourselves are in us.’ ”	Jorge Luis Borges & Giordano Bruno	Spirit	World, Infinite, Divinity, Within, Self, Cause	M
Prayer doesn’t change God. It changes me.	C. S. Lewis	Spirit	Prayer, God, Change, Self	M
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect every moment. Every sin already carries grace in it.	Herman Hesse	Spirit	World, Perfection, Imperfect, Evolution, Moment, Sin, Grace	M
I lost a great deal... violating those dreams of love. One shouldn’t do that. When you know something about Abraxas, you cannot do this any longer. You aren’t allowed to be afraid of anything, you can’t consider prohibited anything that the soul desires.”	Herman Hesse	Spirit	Loss, Soul, God, Fear, Soul, Desire	M
There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves.	Herman Hesse	Spirit	Lonely, God, Direction, Self	M
One who says no to himself cannot say yes to God.	Herman Hesse	Spirit	Yes, No, Self, God	M
The life of a hedonist is the best preparation for being a mystic.	Herman Hesse	Spirit	Mystic, Hedonist, Preparation	M
Prayer is as holy, as sanctifying as song. Prayer is trust, is confirmation. Whoever prays truly does not ask for anything, he merely recounts his condition and his wants, he sings forth his suffering and his thanks, as little children sing. So the blessed hermits prayed in their oasis among the deer... So trees also pray, and animals. In the pictures of a good painter, every tree and every mountain prays.	Herman Hesse	Spirit	Prayer, Song, Trust, Ask, Desire, Sing, Suffering, Gratitude, Children, Hermit, Trees, Animals, Painter, Artist, Mountain, Art	M
Will you allow yourself to be hostage to the ego or host to God?	Course in Miracles	Spirit	Host, God, Self, Ego
I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.	Albert Camus	Spirit	Self, Space, Vast, Emptiness	M	x
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.	Plutarch	Spirit	Mind, Vessel, Fire, Ignite	M	x
Whoever knows himself knows God.	Mohammed	Spirit	Self, Knowledge, God, Mystical, Islam	M
Being is God.	Meister Eckhart	Spirit	Being, God, Self	M
If God wished to hide, God would chose man to hide in.	Hindu Proverb	Spirit	God, Human, Hide, Self
When the mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend, it ceases to exist in the old way... If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world of senses and ideas. Indeed, to accept them fully is identical with true Enlightenment.	Seng T'san, Third Zen Patriarch	Spirit	Enlightenment, True, Self, Mind, World, Offend, Existence, Dislike, Senses, Ideas, Thoughts, Acceptance, Zen, Buddhism	M
There is nothing that will cure the senses but the soul, and nothing that will cure the soul but the senses.	Oscar Wilde	Spirit	Soul, Senses, Cure, Nothing	M
When you see the unborn, uncreated, unconditioned, you are liberated from everything born, created, and conditioned.	Buddha	Spirit	Birth, Creation, Conditioned, Emptiness, See, Perception, Buddhist, Freedom	M
Things are not as they seem, nor are they otherwise.	Zen saying	Spirit	Appearance, Perception
The golden age, which blind superstition situated behind or ahead of us is in us.	Rousseau	Spirit	Time, Within, Golden, Superstition, Self, Creativity, Perception, Inner	M	x
The history of the universe is an infinite sacred book that all men write and read and try to understand, and in which they are also written.	Jorge Luis Borges	Spirit	Book, Read, Write, Understand, History, People, Universe	M
A grain of sand left its father. Its father was a boulder. Only then was it introduced to an oyster, and became a pearl.	Rumi	Spirit	Evolution, Sufi, Mystical, Evolution, Pearl, Oyster	M
I love everything that flows.	Milton	Spirit	Flow, Water, Love	M
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the ancient masters. Seek what they sought.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Seek, Masters, Teachers, Footsteps, Discovery, Zen, Buddhism
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Zen, Truth, Opinions
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Understanding, Being, Zen, Buddhism
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.	Shunryu Suzuki	Spirit	Zen, Beginner, Expert, Possibility, Mind, Learning	M
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.	Chuang-tzu	Spirit	Stillness, Quiet, Universe, Surrender, Open, Taoism	M
When you seek it, you cannot find it.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Zen, Seek, Find, Buddhism, Paradox
Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.	St. Francis of Assisi	Spirit	Necessary, Possible, Impossible, Action, Evolution	M	x
My teaching does not require anyone to become homeless or resign the world unless he wants to, but it does require everyone to free himself from the illusion that he is a permanent self and to act with integrity while giving up his craving for pleasure.	Majjhima Nikaya	Spirit	Teaching, World, Freedom, Self, Illusion, Permanence, Integrity, Desire, Pleasure
All parts way for the progress of souls, / All religion, all solid things, arts, governments - all that / was or is apparent upon this globe or any globe, / falls into niches and corners before the procession /of souls along the grand roads of the universe.	Walt Whitman	Spirit	Soul, Evolution, Universe, Religion, Art, Governments, World, Road, Path	M
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.	Marcel Proust	Spirit	Voyage, Perception, Eyes, Discovery, Landscapes, New, Fresh	M	x
Not always so.	Zen saying	Spirit	Zen, Buddhism, Impermanence, Change
Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.	R. H. Blyth	Spirit	Zen, Buddhism, Symbols, Thinking, Ideas, World, Mind	M
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Mind, Spirit, Details, Perception, Mystical, Vast	M
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Science, Laws, Universe, Vast, Power, Humble, Divine	M
The scientists’ religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Science, Scientist, Religion, Feeling, Law, Intelligence, Divine, Human, Vast, Thinking, Thought, Reflection	M	x
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Intuition, Mind, Gift, Sacred, Servant, Forget, Society, Confusion	M	x
When the solution is simple, God is answering.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	God, Solution, Problem, Answer	M
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—-a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Mind, Universe, Child, Library, Books, Language, Written, Plan, Order, Human, Understand, Guess	M
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Question, Curiosity, Awe, Mystery, Eternity, Life, Reality, Holy, Mind	M
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling…	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Nature, Imperfect, Understand, Thought, Person, Humility, Religious, Divine, Order	M
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Religion, True, Living, Life, Soul, Good, Embody	M
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.	Albert Einstein	Spirit	Mystic, Emotion, Feeling, Art, Science, Wonder, Fear, Dead, Manifest, Wisdom, Beauty, Radiant, Knowledge, Religious	M	x
To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. / To study the self is to forget the self. / To forget the self is to be actualized by the myriad things. / When actualized by the myriad things, your body and mind / as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. / No trace of realization remains and this no trace continues endlessly.	Dogen Zenji	Spirit	Zen, Buddhism, Koan, Self, Buddha, Way, Body, Mind, Emptiness, Oneness, Nothing, Realization, Eternal	M	x
To see directly into one’s original nature, this is Zen... This Nature is the Mind, and the Mind is Buddha, and the Buddha is the Way, and the Way is Zen.	D. T. Suzuki	Spirit	Zen, Buddhism, Nature, True, Mind, Buddha, Way, Insight, Self	M
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.	William Blake	Spirit	Perception, Door, Infinite, Human, Cleanse	M	x
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.	Unknown	Spirit	Stars, Soul, Dream, Goal
To know and not do is not yet to know.	Zen saying	Spirit	Zen, Knowledge, Action, Embody
It is so clear it is very hard to see. You must know that the fire which you are seeking is the fire in your own lantern, and that your rice has been cooked from the very beginning.	Mu Mon-kwan	Spirit	Perception, See, Fire, Lantern, Food, Self, Mystical	M
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.	Ramakrishna	Spirit	Animal, Perception, Deer, Search, World, Self, Mystical, Hindu	M
Don’t be like the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.	Rumi	Spirit	Sufi, Perception, Horse, Animal, Mystical, Self	M
The thinker is the thought.	Krishnamurti	Spirit	Thinker, Thought, Self, Awareness	M
"You realize that on that small spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you - all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, tears, joy, games, all of it on that little spot out there... You recognize that you are a piece of this total life... And when you come back there is a difference in that world now. There is a difference in that relationship between you and that planet and you and all those other forms of life on that planet, because you've had that kind of experience.”	Russell Schweickart, Astronaut	Relationships	Earth, Planet, History, Music, Poetry, Art, Death, Birth, Love, Tears, Joy, Recognize, Life, World, Relationship, Experience, Mystical, Oneness	M
“Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.”	Eknath Easwaran	Relationships	Tool, Divinity, Human, Within, Self,	M
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.	Leo Buscaglia	Relationships	Give, Joy, Gain, Love, Meaning	M
"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule."	Albert Einstein	Relationships	Destiny, Love, Rule, Serve, Service, High	M
“For it is in giving that we receive.”	St. Francis of Assisi	Relationships	Giving, Service, Receive	M
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind."	Henry James	Relationships	Kindness, Life, Importance	M
"Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections."	Katherine Paterson	Relationships	Peace, Differences, Open, Mind, Heart, Seek, Discover, Connections	F
"Most of the time, we fall in love but can’t remain there. The world then calls the state we were in a delusion or infatuation ... But we merely lacked, or someone else lacked, the emotional skills to hold on to the magic when the morning came. ... In truth, we can go to the moon and retain its magic for a lifetime."	Marianne Williamson	Relationships	Love, Delusion, Emotional, Skill, Magic, Morning, Moon, Lifetime, Truth	F
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.	Anthony Robbins	Relationships	Give, Contribute, Service, Meaning, Life, Receive	M
The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?	Margaret Gatty	Relationships	Time, Love, Fight	F
“See if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it more than you.”	Unknown	Relationships	Heart, Expand, Love, Touch, People, Give, Need, Self, Service, Share
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.	Seneca	Relationships	Share, Joy, Ownership,	M
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else."	Samuel Rogers	Relationships	Humor, Marriage, Discover, Change	M
"Being considerate of others will take you further in life than a college degree."	Marian Wright Edelman	Relationships	Compassion, Education, Consideration, People, Life	F
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."	Mark Twain	Relationships	Kindness, Life, Language	M
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."	Mohammed Ali	Relationships	Service, Money, Earth, People, Giving	M
"I do not know what path in life you will take, but I do know this: If on that path you do not find a way to serve, you will never be happy."	Albert Schweitzer	Relationships	Giving, Service, Path, Life, Happiness	M
When I say that ‘I love,’ it is not I who love, but in reality Love who acts through me. Love is not so much something I do as something that I am. Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts.	Robert A. Johnson	Relationships	Self, Love, Action, Being, Connection, Oneness, Effort, Intention, Flow	M	x
"It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love."	John Lennon	Relationships	Love	M
“The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”	Krishnamurti	Relationships	Love, Depth, Ecstasy, Discover, Transformation, Change, Self, World	M
"When you are aware that you are the force that is life, anything is possible. Miracles happen all the time, because those miracles are performed by the heart. The heart is in direct communion with the human soul, and when the heart speaks, even with the resistance of the head, something inside you changes; your heart opens another heart, and true love is possible."	Don Miguel Ruiz	Relationships	Love, Life, Force, Miracles, Heart, Connection, Soul, Human, Speech, Head, Resistance, Change, Transformation, Open, True, Possible	M	x
Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.	Max Lucado	Relationships	Conflict, War, Combat, Choice	M
"When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love."	Eknath Easwaran	Relationships	Mystic, Love, Spiritual, Knowledge, Action, Depth, Consciousness, Wisdom, Perception, Need, Intuition, Clear, Desire, Creative, Action, Obstacle, Power, Vast	M	x
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.	Jeanne Kirkpatrick	Relationships	War, Desire, Peace, Conflict	F
"The first duty of love is to listen."	Paul Tillich	Relationships	Listen, Love, Duty	M
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."	Mark Twain	Relationships	Grief, Joy, Share, Give	M
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.	Teilhard de Chardin	Relationships	Love, Fragments, World, Seek, Being, Wholeness, Unity, Unification	M
Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace.	Rainer Maria Rilke	Relationships	Freedom, Human, Existence, Peace, World, Service	M
"We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk."	Thomas Moore	Relationships	Open, People, Conversation, Courage, Risk	M
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.	Stanley Horowitz	Relationships	Anger, Conversation, Voice, Degrade	M
"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large."	Mahatma Gandhi	Relationships	Consciousness, Service, Habit, Cultivate, Intention, Desire, Grow, Strengthen, Happiness, World, Community	M
There is a peaceful quality to an authentic experience of love that penetrates to our core, touching a part of ourselves that has always been there. True love activates this inner being, filling us with warmth and light. An authentic experience of love does not ask us to look a certain way, drive a certain car, or have a certain job. It takes us as we are, no changes required. When people truly love us, their love for us awakens our love for ourselves. They remind us that what we seek outside of ourselves is a mirror image of the lover within. In this way, true love never makes us feel needy or lacking or anxious. Instead, true love empowers us with its implicit message that we are, always have been, and always will be, made of love.	William Gilmore Simms	Relationships	Love, Touch, True, Inner, Self, Being, Warmth, Light, Authentic, Work, Awaken, Reminder, Seek, Within, Outside, Mirror, Reflect, Need, Anxious, Empower, Message, Peace	M
"The people we are in relationship with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors reflecting their beliefs. So relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth... if we look honestly at our relationships we can see so much about how we have created them."	Shakti Gawain	Relationships	People, Mirror, Reflection, Beliefs, Tool, Power, Honesty, Creation	F
"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."	George Eliot	Relationships	Lonely, Human, Feel, Trust, Reverence	F
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.	Mother Teresa	Relationships	Judge, Love, Time	F
“If I insist on giving you my truth, and never stop to receive your truth in return, then there can be no truth between us.”	Thomas Merton	Relationships	Truth, Listening, Receive, Share, Communication	M
"Love looks upon the world peacefully and accepts. The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go. How simple it is to love, and exhausting it is always to find fault, for every time we see a fault we think something needs to be done about it. Love knows that nothing is ever needed but more love."	Maharishi	Relationships	Love, World, Acceptance, Ego, Search, Weakness, Strength, Simple, Exhausting, Fault, Nothing, Appreciation, Criticism	M
"You are simply unique, incomparable. Accept this, love this, celebrate this -and in that very celebration you will start seeing the uniqueness of the others, the incomparable beauty of the others. Love is possible only when there is a deep acceptance of oneself, the other, the world. Acceptance creates the milieu in which love grows, the soil in which love blooms."	Osho	Relationships	Unique, Love, Celebrate, People, Beauty, Acceptance, Self, World, Growth, Soil, Bloom, Flower	M
"We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed."	Mother Teresa	Relationships	Ocean, Service, Giving, Small	F	x
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Relationships	Reward, Help, Self, Life	M	x
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."	Lao-tzu	Relationships	Taoism, Kindness, Confidence, Thinking, Profound, Giving, Love	M
"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."	Emily Kimbrough	Relationships	Stumble, Path, Hand, Support, Help, Comfort	F
"When we experience the pain of another person, we instinctively want to take away that pain. But by taking away the other person’s pain, we also take away his or her opportunity to grow. To be truly compassionate, we must be able to share another person’s suffering and pain - knowing there is nothing we can do to relieve it and that we are not responsible for it, and yet knowing and understanding what that pain feels like."	John Gray	Relationships	Pain, Person, Help, Suffering, Growth, Compassionate, Nothing, Responsible, Understanding, Feeling	M	x
"Never use violence of any kind. Never threaten violence in any way. Never even think violent thoughts. Never argue because it attacks another’s opinion. Never criticize because it attacks another’s ego. And your success is guaranteed."	Mohandas Gandhi	Relationships	Violence, Thoughts, Opinion, Criticize, Attack, Ego, Success	M
"Forgiving often seems more difficult in western cultures, simply because we are taught to compete, be better, win, and conquer. We aren't taught the intricacies of deep listening and understanding. Nor are we are taught to see, or readily accept, different perspectives. But truly, listening is the first step on the ladder to creating beautiful personal and business relationships. Too often we make assumptions about what others are thinking, feeling or doing, and this affects our ability to work successfully together. Forgiveness is the solution to these issues, opening the door to abundance and creativity."	Denise Trifiletti	Relationships	Forgiveness, Creativity, Society, Win, Conquer, Competition, Deep, Listening, Understanding, Acceptance, Difference, Perspectives, Ladder, Business, Assumptions, Work, Teamwork, Open, Door, Abundance	F
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."	Henry Drummond	Relationships	Reflection, Life, Spirit, Love, Action, Look	M
"In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart."	Roberta Sage Hamilton	Relationships	Frustration, Fear, Confusion, Struggle, Touch, Heart, Action, Being, Right, Deep, Human
"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another."	Thomas Merton	Relationships	Compassion, Awareness, Interdependence, Connection, Beings, Animals, Life, Nature	M
"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."	John D. Rockefeller, Jr.	Relationships	Generosity, Giving, Service, Duty, Privilege, Wealth	M
"No one has ever become poor by giving."	Anne Frank	Relationships	Giving, Wealth, Service, Poverty	F
"Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration — of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine."	Lance Secretan	Relationships	Leadership, Open, Heart, Inspiration, Self, People, Great, Human, Experience, Process, Action, Attitude, Routine	M
"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."	Maya Angelou	Relationships	Liberation, Freedom, Giving, Generosity, Soul
"Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given."	Buddha	Relationships	Generosity, Joy, Intention, Giving, Buddhist, Action, Remember	M
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."	Winston Churchill	Relationships	Living, Work, Life, Give, Receive	M
"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses."	Chinese proverb	Relationships	Giving, Rose, Flower, Fragrance
"There are those who give with joy, and joy is their reward."	Kahlil Gibran	Relationships	Giving, Joy, Reward, Generosity	M
"If we don’t forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole."	Joan Borysenko	Relationships	Forgiveness, Mistakes, Wounds, Guilt, Cripple, Soul, Growth, Isolation, Whole, Connection, Self, People, Vast	F
"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself."	Galileo Galilei	Insight	Discovery, Teach, Learning, Self, Within	M
The best things in life aren't things.	Art Buchwald	Insight	Life	M
You say you have no faith? Love - and faith will come. You say you are sad? Love - and joy will come. You say you are alone? Love - and you will break out of your solitude. You say you are in hell? Love - and you will find yourself in heaven.	Carlo Carretto	Relationships	Love, Sadness, Faith, Joy, Alone, Isolated, Solitude, Hell, Heaven, Discover, Transform, Change	M
Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’	John Bradshaw	Relationships	Sadness, Healing, Painful, Avoid, Release, Energy, Emotions, Pain, Freeze, Grief	M
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope."	George Eliot	Relationships	Despair, Grief, Sorry, Suffer, Healing, Hope	F
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.	Lao-tzu	Relationships	Taoism, Happiness, Greed, Fear, Unhappiness	M
When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.	Sufi saying	Relationships	Sufism, Heart, Grief, Loss, Spirit, Rejoice
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances, but to everyone all the time.	Thomas J. Watson	Relationships	Big, People, Generosity, Consistent	M
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.	Henry Van Dyke	Relationships	Ambition, High, Help, Support, Humankind, Generosity	M
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.	Kahlil Gibran	Relationships	Generosity, Pride, Take, Giving, Need	M
A great relationship is not something that happens to you. It is something you choose.	Alan Cohen	Relationships	Love, Choice	M	x
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.	John E. Southard	Relationships	Help, People, Generosity, Humor, Revenge	M	x
"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."	Buckminster Fuller	Relationships	Earth, Survival, Perception, See, Connection, Interdependence, United, Community	M
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.	Marshall McLuhan	Relationships	Earth, Planet, United, Community, Teamwork,	M
Know love, know happiness. No love, no happiness.	Unknown	Relationships	Love, Happiness		x
Life's circumstances sometimes seem overwhelming, but we must remember the amazing power of love. Just as the ripples in the ocean shape and form the land - from the cliffs to the tiny grains of sand - so do our actions, words, and thoughts shape and form our reality. Even more, ripples joining one another form tidal waves that change the planet. If we make sure that our every thought, word, and action are based in love then the ripples we create will bring about positive change for a positive future.	Julia Butterfly	Relationships	Life, Challenges, Remember, Power, Love, Ripples, Ocean, Planet, Earth, Interdependence, Connection, Unity, Words, Speech, Action, Thoughts, Create, Reality, Change, Transform, Positive, Future	F
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.	Albert Schweitzer	Relationships	Life, Fire, Flame, Inner, Human, Inner, Spirit, Self	M
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.	Thomas Merton	Relationships	Beginning, Love, Image, Reflection, Self, See	M
Character is much easier kept than recovered.	Thomas Paine	Relationships	Character, Preservation, Identity	M
There is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving.	Camus	Relationships	Misery, Love, Loving, Misfortune	M
"Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great."	Roger DeBussy-Rabutin	Relationships	Love, Wind, Fire, Great, Absence	M
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."	Abraham Lincoln	Relationships	Destroy, Enemy, Friend, Change, Transform	M	x
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."	Mahatma Gandhi	Relationships	Eye, Revenge, Forgiveness	M
"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings."	Hodding Carter, Jr.	Relationships	Roots, Wings, Children, Give	M
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as you can.	John Wesley	Relationships	Action, Good, Time, Enthusiasm, Consistency, Service	M
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."	Dalai Lama	Relationships	Compassion, Practice, Happiness, Buddhism	M	x
"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."	Ethiopian proverb	Relationships	Animals, Lion, Spider, Web, Teamwork, Unite, Together, Strength
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."	Mark Twain	Relationships	Happiness, Help, Support	M
"It is an absolute, demonstrable fact that the person who really practices love - real love - rises so high above fear that it can no longer touch him. Where love is, fear cannot live. Love withers fear."	Norman Vincent Peale	Relationships	Love, Fear, Fact, Practice, High, Touch, Live	M
"If you were to spend a few minutes every day thinking about and trying to develop compassion, eventually compassion, the essence of spiritual practice, will become part of your life. When that happens I am convinced that not only will your life be happier but you will also make a direct contribution of peace and happiness in the world as a whole."	Dalai Lama	Relationships	Compassion, Essence, Spiritual, Practice, Life, Happiness, Peace, World, Whole, Contribution	M
"Loving someone deeply gives you strength, while being deeply loved gives you courage."	Lao-tzu	Relationships	Love, Strength, Courage	M
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.	Karen Sunde	Relationships	Love, Heaven, See	F
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.	Emerson	Relationships	Masterpiece, Nature, Friend	M
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.	Jennie Jerome Churchill	Relationships	Friend, Perception, Light	F
There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.	Anne Sophie Swetchine	Relationships	Example, Embody, Power, Transcendent, Change, Transform, Walk	F
"Is there a principle, which can form the basis for one's whole life? Yes. Love for your fellow human beings."	Bruno Gröning	Relationships	Love, Human, Life, Principle	M
"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."	Rumi	Relationships	Love, Romance, Lovers, Search, Within	M
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.	Carl Sagan	Creativity	Library, Books, Learning, Knowledge, Nature, Mind, Teachers, Planet, Science, Civilization, Health, Depth, Awareness, Culture, Support	M
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Feeling, Good, Questions, Depth, Courage, Answers, Embrace, Willingness, Truth	M
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Universe, Planet, Earth, Culture, Rock, Metal, Stars, Infinite, Perspective, Life, Culture, Scale, Vast, Contemplate	M
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it, explorations that are exhilarating to consider. They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Universe, Scale, Vast, Human, Understanding, Eternity, Small, Home, Planet, Earth, Cosmic, Concerns, Evolution, Wonder, Understanding, Knowledge, Survival, Future, Sky, Science, Time	M
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Nature, Mystery, Deep, Touch, Wonder, Awe, Fear, Universe, Human, Superstition, World	M
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Science, Error, Correction, Machinery, Criticism, Test, World, Facts, Superstition	M
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Universe, Self, Knowledge	M
You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Human, Species, Beautiful, Dream, Nightmares, Lost, Alone, Isolated, Search, Emptiness, Companionship	M
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Nature, Imagine, Elegant, Science	M
You have to know the past to understand the present.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Past, Present, Understand, Time	M
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Science, Atoms, Empty, Space, Nothing	M
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Skepticism, Analysis, Science, Religion, Deep, Thinking, Nonsense	M
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Nations, Politics, Intellect, Morality, Leaders, Death, Leadership, Talent, Understanding, Criticism	M
We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where life is sparked by sunlight and lightning in the airs and waters of youthful planets; where the raw material for biological evolution is sometimes made by the explosion of a star halfway across the Milky Way; where a thing as beautiful as a galaxy is formed a hundred billion times - a Cosmos of quasars and quarks, snowflakes and fireflies, where there may be black holes and other universe and extraterrestrial civilizations whose radio messages are at this moment reaching the Earth. How pallid by comparison are the pretensions of superstition and pseudoscience; how important it is for us to pursue and understand science, that characteristically human endeavor.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Universe, Science, Stars, Atoms, Sun, Birth, Spark, Sunlight, Water, Planets, Evolution, Explosion, Beauty, Galaxy, Earth, Superstition, Understand, Human	M
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Creativity, Skepticism, Science, Tension	M
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Science, Universe, Memory, Height, Mystery, Great	M
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Universe, Vast, Space, Scale	M
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Culture, Society, History, Time, Truth, World, Change, Nation, Religion, Knowledge, Answers, Survival, Science, Discover, Work	M
The visions we offer our children shape the future.	Carl Sagan	Insight	Children, Future, Create	M
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.	Carl Sagan	Spirit	Science, Spirituality, Source	M
The ten thousand questions are one question. If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Questions, Disappear, Zen
Though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Zen, Bamboo, Forest, Water, Flow
To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Zen, Path, Master, Walk, See
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.	Robert M. Pirsig	Spirit	Zen, Mountain, Discover, Self	M
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.	Yasutani Roshi	Spirit	Zen, Delusion, Humanity, Inner, Outer, Self, Identity	M
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine.	Shunryu Suzuki	Spirit	Zen, Concentration, Ordinary, Routine	M
To set up what you like against what you don't like - this is the disease of the mind.	Seng T'san, Third Zen Patriarch	Spirit	Zen, Disease, Mind, Preferences	M
No yesterday, no tomorrow, and no today.	Seng T'san, Third Zen Patriarch	Spirit	Zen, Time, Now, Past, Future	M
Don't seek reality, just put an end to opinions.	Seng T'san, Third Zen Patriarch	Spirit	Zen, Opinion, Reality, End	M
When you get there, there isn't any there there.	Gertrude Stein	Spirit	Zen, Journey	F
Nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise.	Alan Watts	Spirit	Zen, Nothing, Perception	M
What does mysticism mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.	Elie Wiesel	Spirit	Zen, Mysticism, Knowledge, Philosophy, Vertical	M
Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.	Wu-men Huikai	Spirit	Zen, Flower, Spring, Moon, Autumn, Winder, Breeze, Snow, Mind, Season, Life, Perception, Clarity	M
Since it is all too clear, it takes time to grasp it. When you understand that it's foolish to look for fire with fire, the meal is already cooked.	Wu-men Huikai	Spirit	Zen, Clear, Touch, Fire, Food, Cook
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Zen, War, Battle, Self, Violence
Life is the only thing worth living for.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Zen, Life, Living
There is nothing infinite apart from finite things.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Zen, Infinite, Finite, Nothing
Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Zen, Doubt, Great, Awakening, Enlightenment, Small
Sitting peacefully doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows all by itself.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Zen, Sit, Peaceful, Peace, Spring, Grass, Growth
Even a good thing isn't as good as nothing.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Zen, Nothing, Good
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.	Elias Canetti	Insight	Observe, Animal, Human, Sit	M
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.	William James	Insight	Wisdom, Perception, Forgiveness	M
Say yes to life, even though you know it will devour you. Because among the obstacles and, to be sure, the cruelties of life are signs that we are on a primary spiritual adventure (even though it seems to be taking place in what we regard as an unmistakably physical world).	Stephen Larsen	Insight	Life, Affirmation, Attitude, Devour, Destroy, Death, Obstacles, Cruelty, Signs, Spiritual, Adventure, Physical, World	M
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.	Eleanor Roosevelt	Insight	Action, Impossible, Possible, Think	F	x
Until the mind loves itself, there is no love.	Byron Katie	Insight	Mind, Love, Self	F
Hell is what you are believing that takes you away from heaven, now.	Byron Katie	Insight	Heaven, Hell, Belief, Confusion	F
There's only one of us here.	Byron Katie	Insight	Self, Oneness, Unity	F
"Every atom belonging to you equally belongs to me."	Walt Whitman	Spirit	Atom, Self, Unity	M
"Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they will never cease to be amused."	Unknown	Humor	Laughter, Self
The soul is here for its own joy.	Rumi	Insight	Soul, Joy, Self	M
"The pain is equal to the attachment."	Sabrina Ward Harrison	Insight	Attachment, Pain, Buddhism	F
"You've got to pray like it's all up to God, and work like it's all up to you."	Reverend Cecil Williams	Spirit	Pray, Work, God	M
"The ego is the mind's belief that it is completely on its own."	A Course in Miracles	Insight	Ego, Mind, Alone	F
"The world is what I believe to be true."	Byron Katie	Insight	World, Belief, Truth	F
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."	Dee Hock	Business	Thoughts, New, Innovation, Old	M
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.	Wayne Gretsky	Business	Opportunity, Action	M
Al great truths begin as blasphemies.	George Bernard Shaw	Insight	Truth, Begin	M
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.	Angelus Silesius	Spirit	God, Self, Presence	M
We are, all of us, the divine spirit gazing upon itself in a gigantic mirror.	Philip Toshido	Spirit	Divine, God, Self, Mirror, Look	M
The one has many manifestations, and the many have one essence.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Oneness, Unity, Essence, Buddhist
You must become somebody before you can become nobody.	Zen proverb	Spirit	Buddhist, Nobody, Self
The truth has no concern for what we think it should be.	Byron Katie	Insight	Truth, Think	F
With internal spaciousness, feelings happen within you rather than to you.	Arduna Ardagh	Insight	Feelings, Emotions	M
Love is the final destination of the soul, and the road that leads it home.	Jeffrey Leaver	Insight	Love, Soul, Home	M
What sustains the artist is the look of love in the eyes of the beholder.	Henry Miller	Creativity	Artist, Art, Love	M
Always give without remembering and receive without forgetting.	Brian Tracy	Relationships	Giving, Generosity, Remember	M
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.	Rabindranath Tagore	Business	Service, Joy, Dreams	M	x
Most of us spend our lives as if we have another one in the bank.	Ben Irwin	Insight	Life, Time	M
Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.	Richard Avedon	Creativity	Creativity, Freedom, Art
There is nothing extraordinary about nirvana. The only thing extraordinary is our refusal to accept the true nature of reality. Nothing inherently exists outside of our minds. Neither does the mind exist as a separate entity apart from the world...	Dogen Zenji	Spirit	Nirvana, Reality, Mind, World	M	x
‎Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.	Thoreau	Insight	Seek, Search, Fish	M
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.	Dorothea Lange	Creativity	Art, Photography, Perception	F
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over again to annihilation can that which is indestructible arise within us.	Karlfried Gras Von Durkheim	Spirit	Destruction, Indestructible
Your work is to discover your true work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it completely.	Buddha	Spirit	Work, Purpose		x
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.	Wayne Gretzky	Insight	Strategy	M	x
Eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.	Wittgenstein	Spirit	Life, Present, Presence, Eternal	M
We will find our way because of a desire to create, and joie de vivre will move us rather than threats of death or extinction. What we do must be done for love, not fear.	Nathaniel Alexander Owings	Creativity	Love, Fear, Creativity	M	x
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.	Paulo Coelho	Creativity	Dream, Possibility, Life	M	x
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye - it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.	Edvard Munch	Creativity	Nature, Soul, Visible	M
When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds that could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower.	Thich Nhat Hanh	Spirit	Perception, Flower, Rain, Clouds	M	x
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.	Thomas Jefferson	Business	Work, Luck	M	x
We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.	Dr. Seuss	Insight	Love, Weird	M
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.	Steve Jobs	Business	Work, Love, Passion, Search	M	x
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.	Alice Walker	Insight	Power, Perception	F
Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity.	Anon.	Business	Success, Preparation, Opportunity	Anon.	x
If everything feels under control, you’re just not driving fast enough.	Mario Andretti	Business	Control, Speed	M
Be yourself; everone else is already taken.	Oscar Wilde	Humor	Self	M	x
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.	Galileo Galilei	Spirit	Stars, Love, Night, Fear	M	x
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.	Joseph Campbell	Insight	Life, Being, Self	M	x
A fool who persists in his folly will become wise.	William Blake	Insight	Wisdom, fool, folly	M
Style makes you feels great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.	Isaac Mizrahi	Humor	Style, Death	M
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.	Bruce Lee	Insight	Defeat, Education, Improvement	M
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.	Rumi	Relationships	Love, Seek	M
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.	Thich Nhat Hanh	Relationships	Love, Peace, Happiness	M	x
The world is his, who can see through its pretension… See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Insight	World, Perception, Lie, Mortality	M
If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be Zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice.	D. T. Suzuki	Spirit	Zen, Archery, Practice	M
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.	Debby Boone	Spirit	Seeds, change, dream	F
The entire fruit is already present in the seed.	Tertullian	Insight	Seed, Fruit
To see things in the seed, that is genius.	Lao-tzu	Insight	Seed, Perception, Seeing	M	x
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.	William Shakespeare	Insight	Seed, Nothingness	M
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes…	Arthur Conan Doyle	Insight	Perception	M
The power of imagination makes us infinite.	John Muir	Creativity	Imagination, Power, Infitie	M	x
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.	Jim Rohn	Business	Goals, Plan, Growth, Focus, Intention	M
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark.	Zen proverb	Insight	Darkness, Shadow, Perception
There is no remedy for love but to love more.	Henry David Thoreau	Relationships	Love, Cure.	M	X
The world is its own magic.	Shunryu Suzuki	Spirit	World, Magic	M	X
Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Happiness, World, Gratitude	M	X
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.	Pema Chödrön	Spirit		F
Keep your mind on the things you want and off those you don't.	Bruce Lee	Insight	Mind, Focus, Attention	M
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn.	Terri Guillemets	Creativity	Dance, Heaven
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 on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.	T. S. Lawrence	Insight	Dream, Creation, Possibility	M
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.	H. H. The Dalai Lama	Relationships	Love, Compassion, Humanity, Survival	M
If you're going through hell, keep going.	Winston Churchill	Relationships	Challenges, Perseverence	M
If you are going to retire from anything, retire from fear and illusion.	Alan Cohen	Insight	Letting go, Fear, Illusion	M
To err is human; to forgive, divine.	Alexander Pope	Relationships	Forgiveness, Error, Mistakes, Divine	M
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.	Thomas Fuller	Relationships	Forgiveness, Bridge, Need	M
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.	Mahatma Gandhi	Relationships	Forgiveness, Strength, Weakness	M
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.	Bruce Lee
I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.	Groucho Marx	Humor	Reality, Food	M
Music is the shorthand of emotion	Leo Tolstoi		Music, Emotion	M
The successful person is the average person with laser-like focus.	Bruce Lee	Business	Success, Focus	M
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.	James A. Baldwin	Business	Possibility, Possible, Action	M
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse.	Carlos Castaneda	Insight	Warrior, Challenge	M
Know thyself, and you will know all the mysteries and wisdom of the Gods.	The Oracle of Delphi		Self-knowledge, Mystery		x
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.	Plato	Creativity			x
What you think you become.	Buddha	Insight	Thought, Creation	M	x
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.	Thomas Merton	Creativity	Self-discovery	M	x
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.	Vincent van Gogh	Creativity	Art	M
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything buy temptation.	Oscar Wilde	Humor		M
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.	Tom Robbins			M
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.	Henri Matisse	Creativity	Art	M
Your body is woven from the light of heaven.	Rumi	Spirit		M	x
When an individual has achieved complete understanding of her true self, she will no longer be disturbed by the distracting influences within and around her.	Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Any change into a new state of being is the result of the fullness of nature unfolding inherent potential.	Yoga Sutras of Patanjali	Creativity	Growth, Evolution, Change		x
Each body is a universe, as good a universe as you could conceive.	Swami Amar Jyoti
Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.	Shunryu Suzuki	Insight	Perception, Learning	M
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.	Rumi		Healing	M	x
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation - either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.	Martin Luther King Jr.		Healing
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.	Marianne Williamson		Healing	W
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.	Marcel Proust		Healing, Suffering	M
We need not only a trained intelligence, but also a warm heart. Then a sense of community and a sense of responsibility will arise naturally.	Dalai Lama			M
The mind, when it is the proper state, is ready to respond in any direction.	Alan Watts		Alert, Responsiveness	M
I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.	Rabindranath Tagore		Optimism	M
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.	Rabindranath Tagore		Love	M
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.	Rabindranath Tagore		Education	M
The wise use memories, but do not allow memories to use them.	The Vedas		Failure, Success, Discovery	F	x
For every failure, there is an alternate course of action. You just have to find it.	Mary Kay Ash
Every soul becomes gold when touched by the Beloved.	Rumi		Love	M	x
When you love someone fully, you are always kissing the divine.	Jeff Brown			M
It always seems impossible until it's done.	Nelson Mandela	Business	Creativity, possibility	M	x
I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.	Buckminster Fuller	Spirit	Mystery	M	x
You become mature when you become the authority for your own life.	Joseph Campbell	Insight		M
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.	Joseph Campbell
You can go through the motions of Zen, but it is the heart that finally counts.	Dogen	Spirit		M	x
“Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.”	Gurdjieff	Spirit		M
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.	Alan Watts	Insight		M	x
What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when you bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.	Henry David Thoreau	Insight		M	x
If we want to understand the psyche we have to include the whole world.	Carl Jung	Insight	Self awareness	M
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.	Abraham Lincoln	Business	Success, Determination	M
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.	Relationships	Love, Transformation,	M	x
Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.	Rumi	Insight	Dance, Freedom, Grief, Healing, Conflict	M	x
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?	Eleanor Roosevelt	Relationships	Conscience, Vengence	F
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.	Ernest Hemingway		Growth, Self-improvement	M	x
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.”	Friedrich Nietzsche			M	x
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.	Ifeanyi Onuoha		Teamwork	M
Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.	Muhammad Ali	Insight	Possibilities	M
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.	Emily Dickinson	Relationships	Death, life, love	F
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.	Woodrow Wilson		Teamwork, collaboration	M	x