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

QuoteAuthorCategoryKeywordsGenderFavNote
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 GoghInsightPurpose, calling, work, artM
Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force.Lao TzuSpiritTaoMx
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 WattsCreativityMx
The individual is an aperture through which the whole energy of the universe is aware of itself.Alan WattsInsightSelf, IdentityMx
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 WattsInsightM
Everybody is ‘you’. Everybody is ‘I’. That’s our name. We all share that.Alan WattsSpiritSelf, IdentityMx
Your soul is not in your body. Your body is in your soul.Alan WattsSpiritMx
I believe in God, only I spell it N-A-T-U-R-E.Frank Lloyd WrightSpiritGod, NatureMx
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 CampbellInsight Mx
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.Joseph CampbellInsight Mx
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.John LennonMx
The dreamers are the redeemers of the world.James Allen, As a Man ThinkethCreativityM
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 GreyCreativityMx
Creativity is intelligence having fun.Albert EinsteinCreativityMx
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.Egon SchieleCreativityM
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.BanksyCreativityMx
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 BasquiatCreativityM
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.Buckminster FullerInsightMx
You can go through the motions of Zen, but it is the heart that finally counts.DōgenSpiritMx
To be in harmony with the oneness of things is to be without anxiety about imperfection.Dogen ZenjiSpiritMx
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.William ShakespeareInsightM
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.SocratesInsightNot knowingM
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.John MuirInsightInterconnectionMx
We love everyone by inhabiting the soul.Ram DassSpirit
If you die before you die, then you won't die when you die.Inscribed on St. Paul's Monastery, Mt. AthosSpiritDeath awareness
The future depends on what you do today.Mahatma GandhiInsightx
Discipline has been my path to freedom.Anne LamottF
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.Maya AngelouInsightFx
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.SocratesInsightMx
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.Pema ChödrönSpiritIdentity, being, selfFx
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 TolleSpiritAcceptance, Presence, BeingMx
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.Leonardo Da VinciDesignSimplicity, artist, artMx
Design is thinking made visible.Saul BassDesign
The noblest art is that of making others happy.P. T. BarnumInsightKindnessMx
No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.P. T. BarnumInsightSelf, Uniquiness
I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.Ram DasSpiritawakening, opportunity, attitude, perspectiveMx
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 HoffmanSpiritnonduality, Gaia, M
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.Joseph CampbellInsightDirection, clarityM
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 EmersonInsightSuccess, Meaning of lifeMx
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.InsightLove, Hate, Decide, CompassionMx
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.The Dalai LamaInsightM
When the power of love becomes stronger than the love of power, we will have peace.Jimi HendrixRelationshipsLove, Power, Strength, PeaceMx
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 HanhSpiritMindfulness, Breath awareness, Meditation
I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. Maya AngelouInsightDesignF
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 HawthorneInsightM
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.Albert EinsteinInsightPerseveranceMx
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Pablo PicassoCreativityM
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.AristotleBusinessExcellence, Action, HabitMx
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.Pablo PicassoCreativityArt, Learn, Action, Discovery, ExplorationMx
Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.Shunryu SuzukiInsightPresence, MindfulnessMx
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Pablo PicassoInsightMx
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 CampbellAcceptanceM
Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it... This will miraculously transform your whole life. Eckhart TolleAcceptanceM
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.Albert EinsteinInsightMx
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 EinsteinSpiritIntuition, Discovery, Laws, Feeling, Order, Appearances, Logic, ElementalM
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor RooseveltInsightFuture, Beauty, DreamsFx
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginationsDr. Mae JemisonInsightUnlimited, unstoppable, limitationsFx
It always seems impossible until it's done.Nelson MandelaBusinessMx
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.Winston ChurchillInsightOptimism, pessimismM
The best use of life is investing it in something which will outlast life.William JamesInsightLife, TimeM
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.William JamesM
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.Albert EinsteinInsightSimplicity, UnderstandingM
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.Albert EinsteinDesignSimplicityM
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.Albert EinsteinInsightHarmony, Simplicity, Difficulty, OpportunityM
Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.Joe SparanoDesignM
Design is intelligence made visible.Alina WheelerDesignF
Simplicity (kanso) means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.Dr. Koichi KawanaDesignSimplicity, Efficiency, Most, LeastM
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.Hans HofmannDesignSimplicity,Mx
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.Paul RandDesignSimplicityM
Design is so simple. That’s why it’s so complicated.Paul RandDesignSimplicityM
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 RandDesignCreativityM
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.H. L. MenckenSimplicity, complexity
The details are not the details. They make the design.Charles EamesDesignM
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.Steve JobsDesignM
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.Steve JobsDesignCreativity, Creative processM
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.Robert L. PetersDesignM
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. SchumacherDesignSimplicityM
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 RamsDesignM
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.Maya AngelouInsightIndividualityF
Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.IDEODesignTeamwork, design
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.Winston ChurchillDesignArchitecture, designM
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.Louis KhanDesignArchitecture, designM
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction siteFrank Lloyd WrightDesignArchitecture, design
They don’t want quarter-inch bits. They want quarter-inch holes.Leo McGinnevaDesignM
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.Elon MuskDesignM
A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.Martin LeBlanc, IconfinderDesignM
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 TufteDesignM
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 SaarinenDesignDesign thinkingM
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.Naoto FukasawaDesignContext, Design thinkingM
If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.Sir Ken RobinsonDesignM
Design and art are independent coordinates that provide their greatest satisfactions when experienced simultaneously.Milton GlaserDesignM
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 NormanDesignUXMx
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 HurstonDesignTestingF
The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.Jessica HischeBusinessWorkF
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.Mark WeiserDesignM
Look at usual things with unusual eyes.Vico MagistrettiDesignPerception, Awareness, CreativityM
Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.Abraham MaslowCreativityM
Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.PlatoM
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.Carl JungM
Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.Leo BurnettCreativityM
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everthing.PlatoCreativityM
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.Ernest HemingwayPurpose, DestinationM
Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it.Salvador DaliDesignPerfect, perfectionismM
You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.George NelsonDesignCreativityM
Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.John MaedaDesignCreativityM
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.Thomas EdisonCreativityPerseveranceM
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-ZArtCreativityM
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.Buckminster FullerDesignM
Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.Alexander IsleyBusinessAmbition, Creative process, CreativityM
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 MuirNatureM
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.John MuirNatureMx
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 LincolnDesign, BusinessCreativityMx
If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will think it’s stupid.Albert EinsteinInsightIntelligence, uniqueM
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.PlatoInsightKindnessM
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.Coco ChanelInsightFX
travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindednessMark TwainInsightM
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood.Andrew GroveCommunicationM
Knowledge paves the way to love and love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.Haile SelassieInsightM
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.InsightInterconnectednessM
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.M.C. EscherBusinessMx
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.Albert EinsteinM
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 FiegerInsightLight, IntentionF
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.Henry FordDesignM
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.Antoine de Saint-ExuperyDesignMx
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.EuripidesInsightM
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.Douglas AdamsHumorCreative processM
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 JungInsightChangeM
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.Greg AndersonInsightChange, Happiness, FocusM
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 BreathnachInsightDiscovery, Happiness, TimeF
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 GawainInsightConnection, World, HarmonyF
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 NairInsightCourage, Strength, Compassion, WisdomM
Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.John WoodenInsightAttitudeM
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 HillermanInsightDifficulties, Power, Change, Native AmericanM
The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.Eknath EaswaranInsightThinking, ThoughtsM
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 EaswaranInsightThinking, Thoughts, Mind, Action, SpeechM
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.Swami VivekanandaInsightThoughts, ThinkingM
Thought manifests as the word. Word manifests as the deed. Deeds form into habit. Habit hardens character.BuddhaInsightThoughts, Thinking, Actions, Character, SpeechM
The perfect is the enemy of the good.VoltaireInsightPerfectionM
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.Glenn ClarkInsightFear, ForgivenessM
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.BuddhaInsightTime, Mind, LifeM
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 MaughamInsightSuccess, KindnessM
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 AllenbaughInsightChoice, LifeM
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 EinsteinInsightEvolution, Life, Being, Beauty, MysteryM
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.Vernon HowardInsightHealing, TruthM
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.Lucille BallInsightLove, WorldF
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 ZukavInsightThoughts, Thinking, Life, Emotions, LightM
Believe that your life is worth living, and your belief will create the fact.William JamesInsightBelief, LifeM
To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.Lao-tzuInsightWisdom, Time, TaoismM
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 StortzInsightGratitude, LifeF
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.William BoothInsightPowerM
By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.Deepak ChopraInsightConsciousness, Actions, EvolutionM
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys.Eliza TaborInsightStrength, DifficultiesF
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces; we become the powerful force ourselves.Leo BuscagliaInsightPowerM
Every submission to our fear enlarges its domain.Samuel JohnsonInsightFearM
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.UnknownInsightFear
A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.Henry Ward BeecherInsightWealth, PowerM
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 WaitleyInsightHappiness, Love, GratitudeM
Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.Dan MillmanInsightEvolution, Difficulties, ObstructionsM
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 GoddenInsightBelief, SpiritF
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.Rainer Maria RilkeInsightLife, Learning, DifficultiesM
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 SmithInsightLife, Enjoyment, WisdomM
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.Andre GideInsightDiscoveryM
Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them with others.CamusRelationshipsHappiness, Success, HumorM
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.Ralph Waldo EmersonInsightWorld, AccomplishmentM
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.InsightLove, Universe, Struggle, World, PowerM
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. WillhiteInsightDesire, Success, AttitudeM
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.Nelson HendersonInsightLife, PurposeM
Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives.Vernon HowardInsightLifeM
No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.UnknownInsightTime, 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 SchaarInsightCreativity, Change, PathM
A good intention clothes itself with power.Ralph Waldo EmersonInsightPower, IntentionM
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 ZukavInsightDesire, Life, Question, AnswerM
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 SinetarInsightMind, BodyF
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 RothInsightBody, Spirit, ReflectionF
If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?UnknownInsightBody
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 TempleInsightFreedom, ThoughtM
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.Neale Donald WalschInsightLife, ChallengeM
Happiness is not about the fulfillment of desires; it's about honoring your heart along the way.Trish WhynotInsightHappiness, Desire, HeartF
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 WuInsightHappiness, SelfM
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 AllenInsightDream, Vision, TimeM
Experience is a hard teacher, because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon SaundersInsightExperience, LearningM
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.Gail SheehyInsightLearning, Challenges, LifeF
Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.Myla Kabat-ZinnInsightDifficulties, Heart, OpenFx
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 RoseInsightDifficulties, Challenges, Growth, Life, Wisdom, SoulF
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 RoseInsightDifficulty, Growth, ExperienceF
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.Theodore RubinInsightProblems, DifficultiesM
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 LevineInsightSuffering, HealingM
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 IrvingInsightAttitude, Thought, MindM
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.Arnold GlascowInsightAction, ThoughtM
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.William JamesInsightActionM
Procrastination is the thief of time.Edward YoungInsightTimeM
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 SellmanInsightBodyF
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.James G. BilkeyInsightDifficulties, ChallengesM
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 BorysenkoInsightLearning, Happiness, CreativityF
You will either step forward in growth or you will step back into safety.Abraham MaslowInsightGrowth, ChallengesM
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 AmielInsightDifficulties, Joy, Growth, FreedomM
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 MartinInsightHeart, Life, AwarenessM
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-SowerInsightHealing, LoveF
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 JungInsightGrowth, Life, ConsciousnessM
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 ChurchillInsightTruth, DiscoveryM
Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.Robert F. KennedyInsightChangeM
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 JaspersInsightBeing, CommunicationM
Do not abandon trust when your ego thinks things should be different than they are.Wayne DyerInsightTrust, Ego, ConfusionM
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 MaltzInsightAcceptanceM
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.Nikos KazantzakisInsightBeliefM
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 AllenInsightThought, Joy, Strength, PeaceM
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 HaleInsightActionM
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 WildeInsightEgo, Desire, ConfusionM
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 JampolskyInsightPeace, AcceptanceM
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 GandhiInsightAction, BeliefM
It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.Albert EinsteinInsightBeliefM
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 SchwartzInsightBelief, Action, MindM
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.Sir Winston ChurchillInsightTruth, HumorM
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'Lao-tzuInsightTime, Desire, TaoismM
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 TubmanInsightDream, Strength, Passion, ChangeF
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 HudsonInsightChange, Ego, AngerM
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 RobertInsightChallenge, Difficulty, EvolutionF
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 EmersonInsightDiscover, WorldM
Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.Chinese ProverbInsightFear, Change, Evolution
The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.John BerryInsightWisdomM
At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.Dr. Paul TournierInsightAcceptance, LoveM
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 BollesInsightWorld, CreativityM
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.PatanjaliInsightWorld, Mind, Purpose, Consciousness, Dream, CreativityMx
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 HofferInsightChange, World, LearningM
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.UnknownInsightChange, 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 RilkeInsightGrowth, Transformation, Feeling, Question, AnswerM
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 WiederkehrInsightLife, PresenceF
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 WilliamsInsightPotential, Growth, WorldM
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 MarstonInsightThought, Life, MindM
Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances.UnknownInsightChange, Imagination, Creativity
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.Chinese ProverbInsightWisdom, 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 AllenInsightThought, Change, LifeM
I can complain because rosebushes have thorns, or I can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.UnknownInsightPerception
All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.Blaise PascalInsightQuietM
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.Michael J. FoxInsightPerfection, GodM
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 FincherInsightForgivenessM
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 TysonRelationshipsJourney, Time, LifeF
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 RossInsightBeauty, Compassion, Suffering, Love, DifficultyF
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.Dr. Denis WaitleyInsightLife, Acceptance, ChangeM
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheInsightThought, ActionM
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 GawainInsightIntuition, ConfusionF
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 EvansInsightLife, Heart, TruthM
There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart.Elizabeth J. CanhamInsightFreedom, AcceptanceF
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 MartinInsightGratitude, Finances, LifeM
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.Malcolm ForbesInsightConfusionM
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 MartinInsightPeace, Life, Desire, AppreciationM
When one is frightened of the truth... then it is never the whole truth than one has an inkling of.Ludwig WittgensteinInsightTruthM
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 JonesInsightLife, Perfection, LearningF
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 MorrisseyInsightEnergy, Life, Freedom, FearF
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 DyerInsightMiracle, Vision, Journey, MagicM
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.Shirley HufstedlerInsightGrowth, LifeF
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 DullesInsightSuccessM
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 FerriniInsightLearning, Consciousness, Emotions, Heart, Healing, DiscoveryM
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 BolenInsightHeart, Intuition, Choice, PathF
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 CampbellInsightJourney, Discovery, World, Path, GodM
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 SandburgInsightTime, Life, ChoiceM
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.Stephen CoveyInsightFreedom, Power, ChoiceM
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.Jean-Paul SartreInsightFreedom, ChoiceMx
One cannot make a slave of a free person, for a free person is free even in a prison.PlatoInsightFreedomM
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-HicksInsightAbundance, Money, Health, Life, ThoughtF
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 GandhiInsightBelief, Action, CreationM
The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds.Albert SchweitzerInsightDiscovery, Life, MindM
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 AndersonInsightLife, TruthM
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.Joseph CampbellInsightAttitude, Journey, QuestionM
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 BeattieInsightGratitude, Life, AngerF
Ecstasy blows our minds open to a reality that is wild, beautiful, loving, abundant beyond our wildest dreams.Jalaja BonheimInsightBeautiful, Abundance, OpenF
When we feel stuck, going nowhere - even starting to slip backward - we may actually be backing up to get a running start.Dan MillmanInsightDifficultiesM
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.Arland GilbertInsightAcceptance, Joy, MiraclesM
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 FergusonInsightFear, Learning, QuestionF
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 SalesInsightPeace, AcceptanceM
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 BennettInsightTruth, SoulM
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 RheaInsightWorld, Consciousness, CreationF
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 MadwedInsightThoughtM
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 LoseyInsightAcceptance, FreedomF
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 ChughInsightLearning, Beliefs, Beauty, WorldM
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. WellsInsightTime, MiracleM
Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.Geoffrey F. AbertInsightAbundance, DesireM
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.Dalai LamaInsightKnowledge, Experience, Difficulty, LifeM
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 RinpocheInsightWisdom, Life, Ego, SpiritM
People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.Aldous HuxleyInsightGrowth, TimeM
You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.Alan CohenInsightActionM
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.BuddhaInsightThoughts, Mind, Action, Speech, Happiness, SpiritM
If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.Yunmen WenyanInsightPerception, Zen, Poetryx
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 CohenInsightBelief, Love, GivingM
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 TolleInsightProsperity, Wealth, Acceptance, Gratitude, LifeM
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. CoveyInsightAwareness, Freedom, Choice, Change, ImaginationM
There is no happiness if the things you believe are different than the things you do.James Arthur RayInsightBelief, Action, HappinessM
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 WaitleyInsightHappiness, Love, GratitudeM
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 EinsteinInsightLove, DevotionMx
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 BolenInsightSoul, Ego, Love, ThoughtF
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.Agnes RepplierInsightHappinessFx
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. DyerInsightCharacterM
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 RuizInsightPerfection, Ideals, AcceptanceM
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 BrandenInsightStruggle, Difficulties, Life, SoulMx
If you open your heart, love opens your mind.Charles John QuartoInsightHeart, Love, Mind, OpenMx
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 AureliusInsightPain, Power, JudgmentM
You are free to believe what you choose and what you do attests to what you believe.A Course of MiraclesInsightFreedom, Belief, Choice, ActionF
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.Nathaniel BrandenInsightAcceptanceM
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 CampbellInsightPurposeM
Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.Doug KingInsightStillnessM
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 CampbellInsightAction, Path, VisionM
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 RamseyInsightMoneyM
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.Sir John LubbockInsightAction, PeaceM
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 MandinoInsightStrength, Gratitude, GodM
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.Og MandinoInsightLove, Light, DarknessM
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 MiraclesInsightVision, World, Change, Thinking, Choice, ReflectionF
One person with a belief is equal to the force of ninety-nine who have only interests.John Stuart MillInsightBelief, PowerM
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 GandhiInsightSpeech, Destiny, ActionsM
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 ChinmoyInsightLife, Opportunity, JoyM
We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.Margaret MeadInsightOpportunity, DifficultiesFx
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.Glenda CloudInsightChange, GrowthF
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 MaslowInsightChoice, Growth, FearM
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. RosenbergInsightDiscover, Focus, CompassionM
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 CohenInsightHelp, Heal, SelfM
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.Carl JungInsightLight, Enlightenment, Darkness, ConsciousnessMx
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.Albert EinsteinInsightThought, God, Intellect, Muscle, PersonalityM
The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.Albert EinsteinInsightChange, Thinking, WorldM
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.Albert EinsteinInsightThinking, Change, ProblemsMx
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 ServiceInsightDifficultiesM
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.Anais NinInsightPerception, Vision, ProjectionFx
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. WestInsightLife, Darkness, SecurityM
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 LeBeufInsightWorld, Mind, Life, Attraction, Speech, Reflection, MirrorM
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 WhiteInsightWorld, Challenges, EnjoymentM
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.Alexander DumasInsightThinkingM
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.Thomas FullerInsightChangeMx
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 RilkeInsightWealthM
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 DumasInsightFailure, DoubtM
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 PonderInsightForgiveness, FreedomF
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 PaddisonInsightForgiveness, Truth, Love, ChangeF
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.Mark TwainInsightHistoryM
All that is, is the result of what we have thought.BuddhaInsightThinking, ThoughtM
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.CiceroInsightGratitudeM
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.Mark TwainInsightFear, DeathM
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.Mark TwainInsightCourage, FearM
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.Albert EinsteinInsightTruth, Knowledge, GodM
It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.Albert EinsteinInsightGiving, WorldM
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 KeseyInsightMystery, Seeking, Thinking, AnswerM
To assume is to be deceived.Yiddish proverbInsightConfusion, Thinking
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.C. West ChurchmanInsightWisdom, Question, AssumptionM
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.John Quincy AdamsInsightDifficulties, ObstaclesM
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 KingInsightPurpose, Life, Joy, ActionM
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 SchneiderInsightConsciousness, Creativity, Dream, Life, PurposeM
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 PatentInsightLife, Purpose, UniverseM
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 HarperInsightPurpose, Thought, Path, Journey, Opportunity, ProsperityF
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 RooseveltInsightAction, LearningM
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 PealeInsightBelief, Thinking, Learning, LawsM
To seek greatness outside yourself is turn your back on the treasure within.Alan CohenInsightSelfM
Take care what words you speak that follow "I am." In so speaking you create your life.Alan CohenInsightCreation, Life, Self, SpeechM
Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you.Og MandinoInsightMind, LimitationsM
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.John Petit-SennInsightAbundance, EnjoymentM
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 GilliesInsightEnergy, imagination, PathM
Recognize that life is what you get when you’re born... living is what you do with it.Jim AllenInsightLife, ActionM
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.Deepak ChopraInsightHappiness, Acceptance, ResistanceM
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 ElderInsightLeadership, 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 ChurchillInsightOpportunity, DifficultyM
The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, and the realist adjusts his sails.UnknownInsightOptimism, Pessimism, Realism
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.Dale CarnegieInsightSuccess, Happiness, DesireM
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 EinsteinInsightMiracle, Belief, LifeM
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.George Bernard ShawInsightMiracle, Life, MysteryM
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. LewisInsightMiracle, Life, PerceptionM
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the earth.Chinese ProverbInsightMiracle, 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 WilliamsonInsightMiracle, Love, InspirationF
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.Walt WhitmanInsightLight, Darkness, MiracleM
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 TrineInsightMiracle, Laws, Knowledge, Wisdom, Power, Mind, RevelationM
Where there is great love, there are always miracles.Willa CatherInsightLove, MiracleF
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.Francois MauriacInsightLove, Miracle, InvisibleM
The miracle is this — the more we share, the more we have.Leonard NimoyInsightMiracle, SharingM
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.Mother TeresaInsightMiracle, Work, HappinessF
All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every second.Henry David ThoreauInsightChange, Miracle, TimeM
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.Helen KellerInsightMiracle, LifeF
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 CoelhoInsightMiracle, TimeM
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 RilkeInsightMiracle, Love, Giving, Strength, DoubtMx
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.UnknownInsightMiracle, Nature, Worldx
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 RohnInsightMiracle, Life, Action, Change, WorldM
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.Robert H. SchullerInsightMiracle, ChangeM
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.Ralph Waldo EmersonInsightWisdom, Miracle, OrdinaryM
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 BradburyInsightUniverse, Miracle, LifeM
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.BuddhaInsightVision, Perception, Life, Miracle, ChangeM
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 NinInsightDream, MiracleM
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.Pablo PicassoInsightMiracleF
... 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 ThorntonInsightDifficulties, SoulM
Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but there is no music. Then what?KabirInsightMusic, EthicsM
Adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.Ralph Waldo EmersonInsightNature, PatienceM
He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.Elbert HubbardInsightSuccess, Laughter, LoveM
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 MillmanInsightEnergy, Thought, Imagination, Belief, ExperienceM
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 KellerInsightPessimism, Spirit, Discovery, Stars, Journey, OpenF
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.Carl JungInsightPurpose, Light, DarknessM
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.Paul BoeseInsightForgiveness, Future, ChangeM
Today's thoughts are previews of coming attractions.Alan CohenInsightThought, FutureM
Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.Alan CohenInsightCommitment, PurposeMx
Saints are sinners who kept going.Robert Louis StevensonInsightSin, TransformationM
Give cheerfully with one hand and you will gather well with two.Irish ProverbInsightGiving, 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 ProverbInsightLife, 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. SeussInsightAuthenticityM
Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.William PennInsightRight, WrongM
The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.Alan CohenInsightLife, Appreciation, ComplaintM
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.Richard BachInsightTransformation, Butterfly, WorldM
Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?Alan CohenInsightWaiting, ShipM
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.John MasonInsightOriginality, DeathM
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.Kathleen A. SuttonInsightAcceptance, DesireF
Observe the direct connection between practicing trust and serendipitous events that follow.Alan CohenInsightTrust, Serendipity, Observation, PracticeM
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 LamaInsightChoice, Life, Fear, KindnessM
Dismiss whatever insults your soul.Walt WhitmanInsightSoul, InsultM
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.French ProverbInsightConscience
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.Johannes A. GaertnerInsightSpeech, Life, Gratitude, Generosity, HeavenM
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 BeattieInsightGratitude, Life, Acceptance, Chaos, Order, Confusion, Friend, Peace, VisionF
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.Erick GolnikInsightWin, Lose, EnjoyM
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 CampbellInsightFuture, Anxiety, Hell, Paradise, Perspective, Joy, Sorrow, Change, Transformation, ActionMx
People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.Alan CohenInsightHunger, Heart, WholenessM
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.Ralph Waldo EmersonInsightShadow, Life, Light, DarknessM
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.UnknownInsightPower, Patience
Fools never learn from their mistakes. Smart people learn from their mistakes. Wise people learn from other people's mistakes.Marc AllenInsightMistakes, Fools, Wise, LearningM
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 TwainInsightDream, Explore, Life, TimeM
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 HanhInsightLove, Happiness, Realization, Action, Suffering, JoyM
There is hardly a simpler law in physics than that according to which light is propagated in empty space.Albert EinsteinInsightLight, Physics, LawM
All things are possible once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.Norman CousinsInsightPossibility, RealizationM
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 GawainInsightShadow, Light, Evil, IgnoranceF
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.Albert EinsteinInsightPeace, UnderstandingM
We can not do great things, just small things with great Love.Mother TheresaInsightAction, LoveF
The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.Maxwell MaltzInsightSurprise, LifeM
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 SolzhenitsynInsightEvil, Heart, Destroy, Death, GoodMx
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 RussellInsightStupidity, Doubt, Intelligence, World, Trouble, DifficultyM
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 KellerInsightCharacter, Experience, Suffering, Success, QuietF
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 ChopraInsightStruggle, Universe, Decision, Acceptance, Understanding, Desire, Future, ChangeM
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith WhartonInsightLight, Mirror, ReflectionF
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.Samuel JohnsonInsightPleasure, LightM
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. SwindollInsightAttitude, Success, Failure, Pain, Progress, Dream, Challenge, FireM
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.ConfuciusInsightLearning, Wisdom, Experience, ReflectionM
There is more to life than increasing its speed.Mahatma GandhiInsightLife, SpeedM
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 MurphyInsightInfinity, Abundance, Perception, Vision, Gold, Joy, OpenM
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.Mahatma GandhiInsightPeace, PathM
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.Abraham LincolnInsightCharacter, Adversity, PowerM
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.InsightEnd, SilenceM
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.Ralph Waldo EmersonInsightDarkness, Stars, Light, VisionM
The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.Henri Frederic AmielInsightSelf, LifeM
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 RilkeInsightQuestions, Answers, Life, Future, TimeM
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. GoodspeedInsightChange, Time, Comedy, Tragedy, RealityM
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.InsightMind, Thought, StretchM
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.TolstoyInsightThought, Change, Self, WorldM
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Robert FrostInsightHappinessM
"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 EinsteinInsightLaws, Mathematics, Reality, CertaintyM
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-RossInsightLight, Darkness, Beauty, WithinF
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 GandhiInsightAnger, Transformation, ExperienceM
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 OliverInsightLife, Amazement, World,F
You are the one you have been waiting for.Byron KatieInsightSelf, AcceptanceF
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 SchweitzerInsightEthics, Sacred, Nature, Devotion, Life, HelpM
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.InsightSoul, Service, Life, Love, Heart, Grace, GreatM
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.Jonathan SwiftInsightVision, InvisibleMx
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 ChurchillInsightStumble, Opportunity, Life, HumorM
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 StoweInsightTransformation, Change, Opposition, DifficultyF
Be at peace with yourself. If you are not at peace with yourself, you are at peace with nothing.Ron RathbunInsightPeace, SelfM
What you find in your mind is what you put there. Put good things in there.Ron RathbunInsightMind, Intention, GoodM
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 HepburnInsightBeauty, Attractive, Aging, Woman, Soul, Love, Passion, Growth, Children, Help, FoodFx
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.Eleanor RooseveltInsightInferior, Feel, ConsentF
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 HolidayInsightPrison, Work, WealthF
You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.Dhyani YwahooInsightNative American, Garbage, Society, RecycleF
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."UnknownInsightLight, 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 ChopraInsightIntention, Attention, Organization, Fulfillment, Life, Change, Conscious, Energy, Transformation, InformationM
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 TeresaInsightGood, Action, Forgiveness, Kindness, Selfish, Success, Enemies, Honesty, Truth, Build, Destroy, Serenity, Happiness, Jealousy, Forget, Give, Action, God, SelfFx
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.Diane ArbusInsightSelf, Deceit, Wish, Belief, TruthF
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.Diane ArbusInsightMind, Action, Hand, Touch, ContemplationF
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 ArbusInsightAwkward, Art, Artist, ProcessF
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.Diane ArbusInsightKnowledge, Fire, Candle, ShareF
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 KellerInsightPurpose, Happiness, Self, Gratification, WorthF
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.Albert EinsteinInsightLogic, ImaginationMx
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.UnknownInsightHonesty, Book, Wisdom
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.Thomas JeffersonInsightPerseverance, RopeM
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.William BlakeInsightBird, Fly, WingsM
My life is my message.Mahatma GandhiSpiritLife, MessageM
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.Wayne W. DyerInsightChildhood, TimeM
Be with what is, so that what is to be may become.Soren KierkegaardInsightAcceptanceM
Nothing is worth more than this day.GoetheInsightAppreciation, TodayM
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.NietzscheInsightDance, Truth, False, LaughterM
Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.Sarah BernhardtInsightLife, Wealth, Energy, FinancesF
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 GandhiInsightWisdom, Strength, Error, WeaknessM
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 NationInsightLife, Death, Fear, Heart, Religion, Respect, Love, Perfect, Beauty, Service, Song, Friend, Respect, Gratitude, Food, Joy, Wisdom, Fool, Vision, Spirit, Sing, Hero, Native American, FoodMx
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 CoveyInsightTime, DirectionM
The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight but no vision.Helen KellerInsightLife, Vision, Tragedy, SightF
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 CarverInsightLife, Compassion, Sympathy, Tolerance, Strong, WeakM
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 HanhInsightMiracle, Water, Earth, LifeM
Worrying about something is like paying interest on a debt you don't even know if you owe.Mark TwainInsightWorryM
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 JamesInsightKindness, LifeM
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-RossInsightTime, Earth, Knowing, Live, FullnessFx
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 LamaInsightReligion, Kindness, Philosophy, Brain, Heart, TempleM
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 HuxleyInsightKindness, Life, AdviceM
When written in Chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.John KennedyInsightCrisis, Danger, OpportunityM
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.Anais NinInsightFlower, Bloom, Pain, Risk, TimeF
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.Marilyn FergusonInsightFear, Freedom, KnowledgeF
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 BaldwinInsightFear, Defense, ConquerM
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 BalguyInsightDesire, Contentment, Wise, HappinessM
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 MacEnultyInsightTruth, Clean, Presence, Thought, Story, NowM
Be the change you want to see in the world.Mahatma GandhiInsightBeing, Change, WorldM
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.Charles DarwinInsightStrength, Intelligence, Change, SurvivalMx
It's not the load that breaks you down; it's the way you carry it.Lena HorneInsightChallengeF
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.Dr. Albert SchweitzerInsightCompassion, Nature, PeaceM
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 GibranInsightChildren, Wisdom, Cry, Philosophy, Laughter, BowM
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 BosInsightSacrifice, Being, BecomingM
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.NietzscheInsightFlight, Appearance, SmallM
Life extracts a price for less than full participation.Tarthang TulkuInsightLife, ParticipationM
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.Mahatma GandhiInsightVegetarian, Morality, AnimalsM
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 EinsteinInsightVegetarian, Health, Survival, Earth, Evolution, Animals, FoodM
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 TolstoyInsightVegetarian, Morality, Health, Animals, Death, FoodM
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 VinciInsightVegetarian, Morality, Animals, Murder, Men, FoodM
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.Sequichie ComingdeerInsightDeath, Fear, ActionM
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 ThomasInsightDestroy, Share, Within, SelfM
He is invited to great things who receives small things greatly.FlaviusInsightGreat, PerceptionM
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.Arthur SchopenhauerInsightLimits, Vision, WorldM
The best way out is always through.Robert FrostInsightTransformationM
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.KrishnamurtiInsightSickness, Health, SocietyM
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.James OppenheimInsightFoolish, Wise, Distance, FeetM
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.BuddhaInsightBelief, Truth, Wisdom, Divine, SelfM
Let everything happen to you, beauty and terror, just keep going. No feeling is final.Rainer Maria RilkeInsightFeeling, Beauty, TerrorM
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.Aldous HuxleyInsightExperience, Action, PerceptionM
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.Andre GideInsightDiscovery, Ocean, CourageM
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.Henri BergsonInsightExistence, Change, Mature, CreationM
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer.Albert CamusInsightDiscover, Winter, Summer, SelfM
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.Charles DarwinInsightWaste, Man, Time, Discover, Life, ValueM
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.Oscar WildeInsightLife, Tragedy, Desire, HumorMx
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.InsightSelf, Demon, Angel, LookM
To reflect is to reflect on the subtlest details of one's actions.UnknownInsightReflect, 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 ThoreauInsightPath, Walk, Mind, Thought, Dominate, Life, IntentionM
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.Anais NinInsightLife, Expansion, Courage, ShrinkFx
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 LamaInsightHappiness, Materialism, Assumption, Gratification, Senses, Survival, Transformation, DepthM
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.Aldous HuxleyInsightLearning, History, IgnoranceM
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 DykeInsightTime, Love, Eternity, Fear, GrieveMx
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.Carl JungInsightVision, Look, Dream, Heart, AwakenMx
Every step in human progress in contingent on our ability to daydream.Ernst BlochInsightDream, Progress, Human, AbilityM
The greater the challenge, the greater the heat. The greater the heat, the greater the purification.Jack KornfieldInsightChallenge, Heat, PurificationM
That that is, is.William ShakespeareInsightAcceptance, PerceptionM
The truth will set you free... but it will piss you off first.Gloria SteinemInsightHumor, Truth, FreedomF
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 WildeInsightHumor, OpinionM
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 CamusInsightEnjoyment, Self, Selfish, HappinessM
You can’t teach an man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.GalileoInsightLearning, Teach, Person, DiscoverM
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.Albert EinsteinInsightTeacher, Joy, Knowledge, ExpressionM
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 EinsteinInsightRelativity, Physics, Science, TimeM
Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his own character, and reveals it by hiding.Ralph Waldo EmersonInsightHide, Reveal, Society, MaskM
Cruelty is a lack of imagination.Carlos FuentesInsightCruelty, ImaginationM
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.M. Kathleen CaseyInsightPain, SufferingFx
We must fight the pessimism of the intellect with the optimism of the will.Antonio GramsciInsightPessimism, Optimism, WillM
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.Mark TwainInsightHistoryM
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.PlatoInsightInjustice, SufferM
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.Albert EinsteinInsightPerfection, Means, Goals, Confusion, EraM
Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.Mark TwainInsightReflect, Majority, PauseM
Science and religion are not so different except that in science, the ultimate sin is believing too strongly.Marvin MinskyInsightScience, Religion, Sin, BeliefM
The chief act of the will is not effort, but consent.Thomas KeatingInsightWill, ActionM
Contentment is true wealth.NagarjunaInsightContentment, WealthM
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.InsightRight, Conscience, Popular, QuestionM
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 CoelhoInsightDarkness, Dawn, Test Dream, World, Soul, Perseverance, Search, Victor, NightM
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 BerryInsightPeople, Earth, Feelings, Wisdom, Pain, Pleasure, Risk, Responsibility, Life, WorldM
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 WhartonInsightHealth, Aging, Change, Fear, Curiosity, HappinessF
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.BuddhaInsightHealth, Mind, Body, Time, Future, Past, Troubles, Present, WisdomM
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 BryanInsightDestiny, Chance, Choice, Achievement, WaitingM
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.Lao-tzuInsightJourney, Path, Step, TaoismM
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.InsightLove, Person, Hostile, Perception, Reflection, MirrorM
Its hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.Fred A. ClarkInsightLuck, Good, PerceptionM
Would you learn the secret of the sea? / Only those who brave its dangers, / comprehend its mystery!Henry Wadsworth LongfellowInsightSea, Ocean, Mystery, Secret, UnderstandingM
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.Kahlil GibranInsightM
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 KellerInsightOpportunity, Perception, Door, Look, OpenF
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Ben FranklinInsightHappiness, PursuitM
Life is about change, but growth is optional.Bruce LeeInsightLife, Change, GrowthMx
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.PythagorasInsightAction, Good, People, Speech, SatisfactionM
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.Albert EinsteinInsightSpirit, Mind, Opposition, ViolenceM
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.Eden PhillpottsInsightUniverse, Intelligence, Magic, PatienceF
All truths are half-truths.Alfred North WhiteheadInsightTruthM
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 ChanningInsightLive, Contentment, Wealth, Money, Stars, Birds, Children, Heart, Open, Sages, Spiritual, Ordinary, SymphonyM
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 ShawInsightLife, Fire, Torch, Burn, Bright, Future, TimeM
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 ShawInsightRejoice, Life, Death, Work, LoveM
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.UnknownInsightLaughter, 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 sayingInsightChallenge, Bless, Essence, Self, Medicine, Learning, Teacher, Native American
The unexamined life is not worth living.PlatoInsightSelf, AwarenessM
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 EmersonInsightSuccess, People, Children, Respect, Appreciation, Criticism, Beauty, World, Improvement, Health, Garden, LifeM
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.St. Francis de SalesInsightDifficulties, Gentleness, Time, PatienceM
Let him who wants to move and convince others be first moved and convince himself.Thomas CarlyleInsightConvince, People, SelfM
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.George Bernard ShawInsightQuestion, Difficult, Obvious, AnswerMx
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 BaconInsightDoubt, CertaintyM
Water which is too pure has no fish.Ts'ai Ken T'anInsightPurity, Water, FishM
When you judge, you lose love.KrishnamurtiInsightJudgment, Love, LossM
Of a certainty the man who can see all creatures in himself, himself in all creatures, knows no sorrow.The UpanishadsInsightSelf, Other, Animals, Sorrow
Pain is the cracking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Kahlil GibranInsightPain, Shell, Understanding, CrackM
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.Catherine the GreatInsightPerson, Knowledge, ForgivenessFx
The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.NietzscheInsightBelief, Truth, DoubtM
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 EmersonInsightJourney, Step, FearMx
Anything that has been explained ceases to interest us.NietzscheInsightInterest, Understanding, InterestM
There is nothing that fear does not make men believe.Marquis de VauvengrasInsightFear, BeliefM
Nothing in this world is good or bad but thinking makes it so.William ShakespeareInsightThinking, Good, Bad, WorldM
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.Brian GreeneInsightQuestions, Deep, Flexibility, Acceptance, AnswersM
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.James AllenInsightThinking, Journey, Tomorrow, TodayM
Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can’t go.Seng-ts’anInsightThinking, Journey, Step, ZenM
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.Carl SaganInsightUniverse, Delusion, Satisfaction, Perception, ReassuranceM
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.Carl SaganInsightKnowledgeM
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.Carl SaganInsightUniverse, InventM
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 SaganInsightJourney, Time, People, Book, VoiceMx
If you think you’re too small to be effective, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito.Betty ReeseInsightInsect, Small, Effective, MosquitoF
Live each day as if it were your last, and one day you’ll be right.UnknownInsightDeath, Action, Life, End
Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.Marsha NormanInsightDreams, Book, Soul, WritingF
Thought is action in rehearsal.Sigmund FreudInsightThought, Action, PracticeM
Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.T. S. EliotInsightTime, Waste, EnjoymentM
The full and joyful acceptance of the self is the only sure way of transforming it.Henry MillerInsightSelf, Joy, Acceptance, TransformationM
The thief of peace is the desire for the transient.PapajiInsightDesire, Transience, Peace, ThiefM
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.J. L. BorgesInsightReligion, Death, EasyM
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.SpinozaInsightUnderstanding, Emotions, Self, Love, AcceptanceMx
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.NietzscheInsightGrowth, Wisdom, AttitudeM
Whether your life is meaningful or not depends on how much you value your present situation.Tarthang TulkuInsightLife, Meaning, ValueM
What bread looks like depends on whether you’re hungry or not.RumiInsightFood, Perception, HungerM
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.BuddhaInsightThought, Help, Harm, Obstacles, Mastery, SupportM
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Arthur SchopenhauerInsightTruth, Violence, Acceptance, Stages, HumorM
Our aspirations are our possibilities.Robert BrowningInsightAspiration, PossibilitiesM
No man is free who is not master of himself.EpictetusInsightFreedom, Person, Mastery, SelfM
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.Alan WattsInsightSelf, Thinking, Understanding, Teeth, ZenM
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 MaharshiInsightSilence, Thought, Speech, Ego, Effective, Source, SpiritM
Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.The Course in MiraclesInsightWhole, 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.InsightDarkness, Light, Hate, Love, Violence, Destruction, Evil, WarM
… only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.InsightDarkness, Stars, Light, VisionMx
No one chooses evil because it is evil; we only mistake it for happiness.Mary WollstonecraftInsightEvil, Happiness, Mistake, PerceptionF
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.Samurai maximInsightAnger, Battle, War, Life, Defeat, Samurai
To transcend personality, you must descend to the source of personality.HeraclitusInsightPersonality, Self, Transcend, Source, GreekM
You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.UnknownInsightDesire, Satisfaction
Nothing cruel is useful or expedient.CiceroInsightCruelty, UsefulM
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.UnknownInsightWar, Violence, Survival, Knowledge
In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others she loves love.Lord ByronInsightPassion, Love, WomanM
She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.Olga BroumasInsightLove, Flowers, Roses, Thorns, PatienceF
Those who wish to sing always find a song.Sweding ProverbCreativitySing, Song, Desire, Creativity
There are no ordinary moments.Dan MillmanInsightTime, Perception, OrdinaryM
Death is not sad. The sad thing is that most people don't ever really live at all.Dan MillmanInsightDeath, Sadness, People, LifeM
The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.Dan MillmanInsightHappiness, More, Less, DevelopmentM
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 NightingaleInsightWrite, Action, Words, ResultsF
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 GornInsightPleasure, Infinite, Gratification, Delay, Time, HumorM
I never make mistakes. Once I thought I did, but I was wrong.Anonymous six year old childInsightMistake, Error, Wrong, Humor
The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.Joan BaezRelationshipRomanceF
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.Pema ChodronInsightGlory, Wretched, Need, Inspiration, SoftenF
If everything in the universe were sensible, nothing would happen.DostoyevskyInsightUniverse, Rational, NothingM“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 ChodronInsightFear, Health, Message, Look, Perception, Threat, StruggleFx
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 EarhartInsightAction, Fear, Change, Life, Process, Success, RewardF
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 EarhartInsightAction, Example, Good, Kindness, Roots, Trees, SelfFx
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 EarhartInsightDanger, Possibility, FearF
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.Amelia EarhartInsightAction, ImpossibleF
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 MorrisonInsightOppression, Chain, RepressionF
Action is the antidote to despair.Joan BaezInsightAction, Despair, AntidoteF
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.Pema ChodronInsightTeacher, Crazy, Open, Hearts, LearnF
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 ChodronInsightHeart, Touch, Discover, Vast, Infinite, Warmth, Gentleness, SpaceF
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.Pema ChodronInsightTruth, Belief, NewF
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.DostoyevskyInsightPurpose, Life, Death, Destroy, Food, Bread, AbundanceM
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 MandinoInsightLaughter, Miracle, Drug, Pain, Depression, Help, Perspective, Defeat, Worry, Freedom, Mind, Think, Clarity, Solution, SeriousM
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.DostoyevskyInsightSuffering, Life, Pleasure, Church, Holy, TransformationM
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 MillerInsightLife, Discipline, Defeat, End, Evil, Beauty, Joy, Strength, Open, Mind, Vision, AcceptanceMx
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 TwainInsightHumor, Attitude, Spirit, IrritationM
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark TwainHumorLaughter, Weapon, HumanM
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.Mark TwainHumorAging, Mind, MatterM
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm AlbrightHumorAttitude, Positive, IrritationM
The world is full of obvious things, which nobody by any chance ever notices.Sir Arthur Conan DoyleHumorObservationM
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.Lucille BallHumorFunny, BraveF
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.Lucille BallHumorChance, AwarenessF
A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.Lucille BallHumorIntelligent, Age, Woman, AgingF
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 BallHumorShyness, Attitude, ShyF
You see much more of your children once they leave home.Lucille BallHumorChildren, Perception, SeeF
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 BallHumorLuck, Fear, Work, OpportunityF
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 BallHumorReligion, Love, Self, Success, WorldF
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 BallHumorAttitude, Work, Optimism, Faith, SelfF
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.Lucille BallHumorRegret, ActionF
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?Ursula LeGuinHumorSane, Crazy, WorldF
The creative adult is the child who has survived.Ursula LeGuinCreativityChild, Survival, AdultF
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.Ursula LeGuinCreativityPeace, Imagination, Exile, Fool, WorldF
For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.Larry EisenbergHumorPeace, Mind, Surrender, UniverseMx
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.Michael AltshulerHumorTime, Flight, Pilot, Bad, Good, NewsMx
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.David BrinkleyHumorSuccess, Person, ThrowM
I can resist everything except temptation.Oscar WildeHumorResistance, Temptation, DisciplineM
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.Mark TwainHumorTruth, Remember, HonestyM
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.Vince LombardiHumorEnthusiasm, WorkM
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.Oscar WildeHumorPeople, Genius, ForgivenessM
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.Mark TwainHumorMoney, Finances, World, NothingM
I've already got all the money I'll ever need - if I die by four o'clock this afternoon.Henry YoungmanHumorMoney, DeathM
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!HafizHumorGod, Chair, Fun, WorldM
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.Will RogersHumorPast, Today, TimeM
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.Katharine HepburnHumorObey, Rules, FunF
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.Will RogersHumorFruit, Risk, TreeM
For fast acting relief, try slowing down.Lily TomlinHumorTempo, Fast, Slow, ReliefF
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 TwainHumorIgnorance, Father, Parent, Man, Learn, BoyM
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 GauvreauHumorPeople, Money, Finance, People, DislikeF
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.Mark TwainHumorPeople, Majority, ReflectM
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 WildeHumorImagination, Humor, People, ConsolationMx
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.W. Somerset MaughamHumorPerson, Best, MediocreM
Live as if your life depends on it.Werner ErhardHumorLife, DeathM
Never put off enjoyment because there's no time like the pleasant.Evan EsarHumorTime, Pleasure, EnjoymentM
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.Franklin P. JonesHumorMistake, Experience, RecognizeM
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 ViorstHumorStrength, Discipline, Chocolate, CandyF
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 AdamsHumorPeople, Dolphins, Intelligence, War, Water, Enjoyment, BeliefM
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.Will RogersHumorLife, Bird, Gossip,M
I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.Lily TomlinHumorReality, Confine, Small, LifestyleF
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.Will RogersHumorHole, Dig, PerceptionMx
My life seems like one long obstacle course, with me as the chief obstacle.Jack ParrHumorLife, Obstacle, SelfM
The future isn’t what it used to be.Yogi BerraHumorFuture, Time, PastM
I am a firm believer in optimism because without optimism, what else is there?Saul GornHumorOptimism, BeliefM
Acting’s about truth. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.George BurnsHumorTruth, Acting, FakeM
It’s impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly surprised.UnknownHumorOptimism, Surprise
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.Mark TwainHumorLaughter, War, NothingM
Always forgive you enemies; nothing annoys them so much.Oscar WildeHumorForgiveness, Enemy, AnnoyM
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.Mignon McLaughlinHumorSociety, Dead, Live, ConformityF
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Mignon McLaughlinRelationshipMarriage, Romance, LoveFx
All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.Mark TwainHumorLife, Ignorance, Success, ConfidenceM
God is good, but never dance in a small boat.Irish ProverbHumorGod, Good, Boat, Dance
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.UnknownHumorTrain, Track, Path, Action, Right
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.UnknownHumorFear, 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 CurtisHumorPeople, Conformity, Follow, DisciplineM
The secret to success is making your vocation your vacation.Mark TwainBusinessSuccess, Work, Vacation, HumorMx
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.Oliver GoldsmithBusinessSuccess, PerseveranceM
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.Bill GatesBusinessLeadership, Future, PowerMx
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.Dwight EisenhowerBusinessDesire, Leadership, ActionM
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.John Quincy AdamsBusinessAction, Inspiration, Learning, More, Leader, LeadershipM
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.Sun-tzuBusinessOpportunity, Samurai, GrowthMx
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 NourotBusinessWork, Play, Choice, ObligationF
The success of the decisions you make depends ultimately on what you make of your decisions.Jeff EsperBusinessSuccess, Decision, ActionM
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 MandelaBusinessDanger, Leader, Celebrate, People, Human, HumilityM
A lean purse is easier to cure than endure.George S. ClasoBusinessMoney, Finances, CureM
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 BrownBusinessDesire, Hunger, Motivation, ObstaclesM
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 LamaBusinessFailure, Life, Thought, Strength, PowerM
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 ShinnBusinessVision, Work, Accomplishment, FailureF
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 EmersonBusinessLife, Waste, Doubt, Fear, Work, Right, TimeM
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 MillmanBusinessMoney, Finances, Wealth, Poverty, Creation, Flow, Energy, LifeM
It is noble to charge a fortune for your services if you provide a fortune in value.James Arthur RayBusinessNoble, Value, Money, Service, Fortune, WorkM
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 FrancisBusinessMoney, Work, Purchase, Enthusiasm, Loyalty, Devotion, Heart, Mind, Soul, EarnM
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 GawainBusinessMoney, Teacher, Learning, Finances, Reality, Reflection, Inner, Process, Self, HelpF
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 RuthBusinessTeamwork, Cooperation, Team, Play, MoneyM
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.Sydney SmilesBusinessMonotasking, Action, Effective, ProductivityM
Often he who does too much does too little.Italian ProverbBusinessProductivity, 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 BellBusinessPower, Person, Mind, Knowledge, Determination, Perseverance, Quit, DiscoveryM
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 WhitmanBusinessWorld, Need, Self, Life, Action, People, Motivation, Purpose, SuccessM
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 SchweitzerBusinessSuccess, Happiness, Action, LoveMx
Every adversity or failure carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit.Napoleon HillBusinessAdversity, Failure, Seed, Growth, Success, OpportunityM
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 PriceBusinessMoney, Finance, Self, Form, Soul, Learning, Opportunity, Limitation, Experience, ChallengeM
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 WelchBusinessLeaders, Leadership, Passion, Energy, PeopleM
Every achiever that I have ever met says, ‘My life turned around when I began to believe in me.’Dr. Robert H. SchullerBusinessBelief, Self, TransformationM
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 AurobindoBusinessMoney, Force, Universal, Physical, Outer, Action, DivineM
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 GandhiBusinessWork, Credit, CompetitionF
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 NeedlemanBusinessMoney, Meaning, Prison, Tool, Awakening, Life, PurposeM
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 BohrBusinessInnovation, DiscoveryM
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 NightingaleBusinessPurpose, Happiness, Work, Journey, Goal, Time, Sleep, LifeM
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.Henry David ThoreauBusinessMoney, SoulM
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 PackBusinessMoney, Tool, Self, PotentialB
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-tzuBusinessGood, Bad, Great, Taoism, Leader, Empowerment, CommunityM
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.Alvin TofflerBusinessLearningM
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 LucasBusinessSecret, Hope, Difficulties, Hopeless, BreakthroughM
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.Richard BachBusinessWin, Perception, Attitude, Success, ThoughtM
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 PickfordBusinessMistake, Failure, Perseverance, OpportunityF
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.Winston ChurchillBusinessAction, Service, UsefulnessM
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.George Washington CarverBusinessAttention, Action, Common, Exceptional, World, SuccessMx
Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.Eknath EaswaranBusinessNeed, Deep, Knowledge, Service, People, Action, UsefulnessM
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 FordBusinessMoney, Security, Safety, Independence, People, World, Knowledge, Experience, Action, SkillM
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 SinetarBusinessWater, Obstacle, Overcome, Breakthrough, Strength, Path, Journey, PauseF
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-ExuperyBusinessCreation, Ship, Build, Wood, Action, Leadership, Desire, Sea, Ocean, TeachMx
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 DeVosBusinessSuccess, Perseverance, Determination, Will, End, ObstacleM
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 WilsonBusinessPurpose, Money, Work, World, Life, Vision, Hope, Wealth, Action, AchievementM
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 WaitleyBusinessFailure, Defeat, End, Nothing, PerseveranceM
When busyness is the measure of time, no matter how much time exists it is never enough.Diana HuntBusinessTime, Work, Busy, EnoughF
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.James LevinBusinessAction, Reflection, Quiet, Effective, ProductiveM
Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.Richard CarlsonBusinessReflection, Success, Power, ToolM
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. CoveyBusinessGood, Purpose, Action, Humble, Obedient, Universal, ServiceM
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 ChopraBusinessGoal, Purpose, Service, People, Ecstasy, Spirit, GoalM
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.Sun-tzuBusinessSamurai, War, Victory, Defeat, Success, Preparation, PlanningM
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 JobsBusinessFocus, Planning, Yes, No, Work, Action, Good, Ideas, ChoiceMx
People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.Daisaku IkedaBusinessGrowth, Leadership, Challenge, Self, Inspiration, PeopleM
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.Bruce LeeBusinessBuild, Growth, Transformation, Self, Water, FormM
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.John Quincy AdamsBusinessPatience, Perseverance, Difficulties, Obstacles, Disappear, Magic, ActionM
The nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.Aldous HuxleyBusinessUniverse, Ends, Means, Action, CausalityM
Whether you think you can do it or you think you can’t do it, you’re probably right.Henry FordBusinessThought, Perception, Possibility, Action, Success, Failure, AttitudeMx
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; it’s the only thing that ever has.Margaret MeadBusinessChange, World, Community, Action, WorkF
Progress always involves risk. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.Frederick B. WilcoxBusinessProgress, Risk, Success, SafetyM
There is no such thing as security. There are only varying degrees of risk.Robert AllenBusinessRisk, SecurityM
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 HawkenBusinessPlanning, Knowledge, Fresh, Information, Environment, Inquiry, QuestionsM
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 RollinsBusinessSelf, Success, Help, Support, Work, PeopleM
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.William FeatherBusinessSuccess, Work, Perseverance, People, DeterminationM
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. DanforthBusinessHistory, Direction, Focus, Work, People, Small, Obstacles, FailureM
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.John Christian BoveeBusinessFailure, Success, Determination, Perseverance, Self, WorkM
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 SchwabBusinessWork, Love, Money, Success, Fun, Enjoyment, PersonM
Every rejection is valuable to those who persist.Robert AllenBusinessPersistence, Determination, Valuable, Rejection, Obstacle, WorkM
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 AllenBusinessSuccess, Failure, Perseverance, People, Water, Drown, Action, WorkM
The world turns aside to let any person pass who knows whither he or she is going.David S. JordanBusinessWorld, People, Direction, Success, PurposeM
Goals are as essential to success as air is to life.David SchwartzBusinessGoal, Purpose, Success, Air, Life, EssentialM
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.Truman CapoteBusinessFailure, Success, Flavor, TasteM
It takes five years to make an overnight success.UnknownBusinessSuccess, Time, Work, Humor
Do or do not do. There is no try.YodaBusinessAction, Effort, WorkM
Every time I feel I'm losing my own focus, I ask myself one question: What am I trying to accomplish?Steve DeMascoBusinessFocus, Question, Accomplishment, SelfM
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.ThoreauBusinessPlanning, Focus, Success, WorkM
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.Ralph Waldo EmersonBusinessCommon, Genius, Work, Clothing, HumorMx
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.Eric ShinsekiBusinessWork, Change, Humor, FlexibilityMx
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.Benjamin FranklinBusinessLife, Time, love, WasteM
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.Bill CosbyBusinessSuccess, Failure, Key, People, HumorM
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.Steve JobsBusinessCrazy, World, Change, Action, Thought, WorkMx
You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration.James AllenBusinessDesire, Aspiration, Small, Great, TransformationM
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.Woodrow WilsonBusinessThought, 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 HugoBusinessWar, Idea, Time, Strength, Army SuccessM
One man with courage makes a majority.Andrew JacksonBusinessCourage, Person, MajorityM
Perform every act as if it were your last.Marcus AureliusCreativityAction, Death, Success, FocusM
Self-creation is an act of fire.M. C. RichardsCreativityCreation, Fire, Action, SelfF
A job is what we do for money. Work is what we do for love.Marysarah QuinnBusinessWork, Love, MoneyFxfor the love of it
What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.Theodore RoethkeBusinessImpossible, Action, WorkM
A real artist is nothing if not a working person and a damn hard one.Edward WestonCreativityArtist, Work, Person, SuccessM
Learn to wish that everything should come to pass exactly as it does.EpictetusInsightAcceptance, Perception, WishM
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.Antoine de Saint-ExuperyInsightVision, Eye, Sight, Heart, Essence, InvisibleMx
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 MariechildInsightFear, Feelings, Rush, Searching, Living, Look, Vision, Perception, Art, LifeF
The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.Pablo PicassoCreativityCreativity, Creation, NothingM
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.Golda MeirCreativityTime, FocusF
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.Ram DasSpiritQuiet, Hear, SilenceM
Some people will never learn anything… because they understand everything too soon.Alexander PopeInsightLearning, Understanding, PatienceM
I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.Maya AngelouCreativityTalent, Electricity, Power, Understanding, UsefulnessF
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 ChesterfieldInsightTime, Value, Enjoy, Focus, Tomorrow, Today, ProcrastinationM
Only put off until tomorrow what you’re willing to die having left undone.Pablo PicassoCreativityTomorrow, Death, Procrastination, Work, Action, TimeM
Well begun is half done.HoraceBusinessWork, BeginningM
Paradise is where I am.VoltaireSpiritParadise, Self, PresenceM
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling.LucretiusInsightWater, Rain, Hole, Stone, Perseverance, ViolenceM
Give me a place to stand and a long enough lever, and I will move the world.ArchimedesBusinessWorld, Move, Change, PowerM
I would rather see a crooked furrow than a field unplowed.Paul JewkesBusinessPerfection, Field, Plow, Action, WorkM
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 StoneBusinessAdversity, Seed, Benefit, Magic, Person, PerceptionM
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-tzuBusinessTeach, Learning, Taoism, Food, TimeM
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my ax.Abraham LincolnBusinessPreparation, TreeM
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.BuddhaBusinessDiscover, Work, Devotion, HeartM
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.Ralph Waldo EmersonBusinessAction, Work, Reward, SatisfactionM
Excellence in art is, ultimately, a function of wholeness as a human being.Richard SchechnerCreativityArt, Excellence, Wholeness, HumanM
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!GoetheCreativityCommitment, Action, Creation, Creativity, Truth, Ignorance, Kill, Ideas, Plans, Providence, Support, Success, Perseverance, Dream GeniusMx
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.Virginia WoolfCreativityLiterature, Destruction, Opinion, CriticismF
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.Virginia WoolfCreativityTruth, Self, People, Write, ArtistF
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.Virginia WoolfCreativityUniverse, Order, Creative, Power, Art, ArtistFx
I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore.Georgia O'KeeffeCreativityArtist, Explore, WomenF
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 TracyBusinessDisappointment, Success, Perseverance, Learning, Accomplish, Great, Life, Prediction, WorkM
Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you’re expected to do.Brian TracyBusinessSuccess, Life, Action, WorldM
I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.Flannery O’ConnorCreativityDiscover, Thought, Read, Write, CreateF
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 WalkerInsightAnimals, Existence, HumansF
The dying, the cripple, the mental, the unwanted, the unloved-- they are Jesus in disguise.Mother TeresaSpiritDeath, Disease, Service, MysticF
Love is found in loving.Lama Surya DasRelationshipLove, Loving, DiscoveryM
We must love only occasionally, for a moment, but forever.Fyodor DostoyevskyRelationshipLove, Forever, ConsistentM
We are all miracles but seldom act like miracles.James BaldwinInsightMiracles, People, ActionM
A person who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.Thomas MertonBusinessFailure, Success, Bad,M
Being happy is not the only happiness.Alice WalkerInsightHappinessF
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.Alice WalkerInsightReligion, Holy, Time, PracticeF
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 WilliamsonInsightFear, Power, Light, Darkness, Question, Brilliant, Talent, Glory, Within, Self, Shine, People, Action, Freedom, LiberationF
If you don't know where you are going, any path will get you there.Michael GerberBusinessPath, Direction, PurposeM
Tell me, I'll forget. Show me, I may remember. But involve me and I'll understand.Chinese proverbBusinessLearning, Forget, Understanding, Remember
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Barry LePartnerBusinessJudgment, Experience, Bad, LearningM
Let the beauty you love be what you do.RumiCreativityLove, Beauty, Action, Work, PurposeM
We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.Anais NinCreativityWriting, Life, TasteF
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 SheehanBusinessSuccess, Measure, Knowledge, Self, Reward, Perception, AwarenessM
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.Ken HakutaBusinessMoney, Lack, Obstacle, IdeaMx
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.Helen KellerInsightSecurity, Superstition, Nature, Adventure, Nothing, LifeF
There is no purpose for your life greater than to recognize your own beauty, power, and worth, and to share it.Alan CohenCreativityPurpose, Life, Art, Recognize, Beauty, Power, Worth, ShareM
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.Albert von Szent-GyorgyCreativityDiscover, See, Thought, NobodyM
One must have chaos in one's self in order to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich NietzscheCreativityChaos, Self, Star, Dance, Birth, ArtM
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.Angela MonetCreativityDance, Music, Crazy, Insane, PerceptionF
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 SherCreativityGenius, People, Curiosity, Child, Sleep, Escape, Wonder, ArtistF
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Henry Ward BeecherCreativityNature, Soul, Brush, Artist, PictureM
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 GrahamCreativityDance, Life, Affirmation, Energy, Awareness, Mystery, Humor, Wonder, LifeFx
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 EinsteinCreativityFool, Courage, Violence, GeniusM
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.Frank A. ClarkCreativityGrowth, Person, Nourish, Roots, Gentle, Criticism, Rain, DestroyM
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 GoldbergCreativityIdeas, Difficulty, Time, Slow, Open, Life, Earth, Present, Now, DiscoverF
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 JamesCreativityDreams, Energy, Run, Distance, Self, Devotion, ActionM
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 LeGuinCreativityReligion, Problem, Mystic, Activism, Search, Awareness, Action, IdentityF
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 LeGuinInsightPerception, Beauty, Planets, Life, Dirt, Rock, PatternF
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 RadmacherCreativityCourage, Roar, Quiet, Perseverance, Voice, TomorrowF
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.Ursula LeGuinCreativityVolcanoes, Mountains, Truth, Experience, Human, Map, New, Creation, ArtistF
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.William Gilmore SimmsCreativityDeath, Genius, Fear, Fame, CriticismM
If one pulls on a single thread in nature, you'll find it attached to everything else.John MuirSpiritNature, Thread, Connection, DiscoverM
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 GobleCreativityCourage, Flexibility, Mistakes, Crazy, Person, Ideas, Worthless, Change, Habit, Stress, UnexpectedM
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 FranzCreativityDevotion, Unconscious, Gift, Life, Adventure, Possibility, PersonF
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. BennisCreativityEnergy, Authentic, Desire, Discover, Action, ArtistM
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 PackerCreativityFantasy, Thinking, Honor, Message, Deep, Being, Self, Direction, Choice, DreamB
Everybody builds a dream in their lifetime. You’re either going to build your dream, or somebody else's. So build your own!Christopher LaBrecCreativityDream, Life, Build, SelfMx
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 GoetheCreativityWealth, Quiet, Stillness, Grow, Win, World Fire, Sword, EffortM
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 StoneCreativityQuiet, Stillness, Mistake, Belief, Efficient, Effective, Self, Assume, Waste, Time, ThoughtM
"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."Mary Lou CookCreativityInvent, Experiment, Growth, Rules, Break, Mistake, FunF
"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"George Bernard ShawCreativityPerception, Dream, See,Mx
"You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts."CochiseCreativitySunlight, Speech, Heart, Words, Native AmericanM
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”Frank Lloyd WrightCreativityBelief, Creation, PerceptionM
"Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring."Grace LichtensteinCreativityAdventure, Discovery, Self, Secret, Fuel, Daring, EndF
"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them."Ralph GerardCreativityReason, Imagination, Questions, AnswerM
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."Muhammad AliCreativityImagination, Wings, PersonM
"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 ChildreCreativityCreation, Feeling, Thought, Real, Belief, Past, Future, Protect Cells, Perception, AnxietyM
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."Mark TwainCreativityImagination, Focus, Eyes, Sight, VisionMx
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 RilkeCreativityBirth, Future, Images, Fear, Time, Wait, Clarity, PatienceM
“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 BergCreativityGood, Voice, Feeling, Sing, Courage, GiftF
"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."Anthony JayCreativityCreative, Mind, Questions, Answers, PerceiveM
"I want to know the thoughts of God; the rest are details."Albert EinsteinCreativityThoughts, God, Details, DesireM
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 VinciCreativityRelaxation, Judgment, Work, Action, Distance, Small, Harmony, Perception, Rest, LackM
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."T. S. EliotCreativityRisk, Distance, Potential, DiscoveryM
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."Langston HughesCreativityDreams, Death, Broken, Bird, Wing, Fly, LifeM
"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 EinsteinCreativityImagination, Thought, Gift, Fantasy, Talent, Knowledge, Positive, Examination, Self, ReflectionM
"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 TurnerCreativityDreams, Age, Possibilities, Beauty, Birth, Within, SelfM
“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 ArrienCreativityMystery, Reflection, Contemplation, Deep, Knowing, Wisdom, Silence, TouchF
"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking."Albert EinsteinCreativityRational, Thinking, DiscoveryM
"Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities."Erica JongCreativitySex, Creativity, Action, DictatorsF
"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 MilleCreativityLife, Knowing, Artist, Wrong, Leap, Darkness, GuessF
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 GrahamCreativityVitality, Life, Force, Action, Time, Expression, Unique, Block, Exist, Lost, World, Good, Judgment, Self, Open, Believe, Work, Awareness, Motivation, Artist, Self, Satisfaction, Divine, Alive, InspirationFx
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."Thornton WilderCreativityHeart, Conscious, Treasure, Alive, Life, PerceptionM
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCreativityLife, Trust, Self, Knowledge,M
Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen.BuddhaCreativityDistance, See, Vision, PerceptionMx
A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free.Nikos KazantzakisCreativityMadness, Crazy, Freedom, DaringM
Motivation is what happens when you take hold of an idea. Inspiration is what happens when an idea takes hold of you.Wayne DyerCreativityMotivation, Inspiration, Idea, Self, HoldM
"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 NightingaleCreativityFear, Time, Accomplish, Action, UsefulM
"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 KeatsCreativityDiscouragement, Failure, Positive, Experience, Highway, Success, Discovery, False, Path, True, Fresh, Error, AvoidM
Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.Imogen CunninghamCreativityPhotograph, Image, Photographer, Artist, Tomorrow, FavoriteF
You don’t take a photograph, you make it.Ansel AdamsCreativityPhotographer, Photograph, Artist, CreateM
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.Ansel AdamsCreativityPhotographer, Photograph, Artist, CreateM
I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing.John CageCreativityMystery, Unknown, Action, Creation, ArtM
"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 GideCreativityIndividuality, Unique, Action, Writing, Self, Nothing, CreationM
"Do everything with so much love you would never want to do it another way."Yogi Amrit DesaiCreativityLove, ActionM
"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 ThoreauCreativityDirection, Dreams, Live, Life, Common, Success, Invisible, Boundary, Universal, Laws Within, Self, Higher, Being, Castles, Air, Work, Lost, Foundation, ArtistMx
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.George Bernard ShawCreativityPlay, Aging, OldMx
There is only one of you in the world, just one. And if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.Martha GrahamCreativityWorld, Lost, SelfF
Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.Matt HardyCreativityBeauty, Perception, PhotographM
No choicer gift can any man give to another than his spirit’s intimate conversation with itself.Friedrich Daniel Ernst SchleiermacherCreativityGift, Spirit, Conversation, Self, Give, Service, ArtistMx
"Motivation is an external, temporary high that pushes you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward."Thomas LeonardCreativityMotivation, Inspiration, Pull, Glow, Internal, Inner, Push, Sustainable, TemporaryM
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."Thomas EdisonCreativityAction, Capable, Astound, Self, Surprise, PotentialM
"If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk."Raymond InmonCreativityWalk, Creative, Ideas, Angels, Whisper, Inspiration, ListenM
"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 NewtonCreativitySea, Ocean, Perfect, Seashell, Truth, World, Boy, PlayM
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.PicassoCreativityArt, Lie, Realization, Truth, ArtistM
Beauty is convulsive, or not at all.André BretonCreativityBeauty, Art, FeelingM
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 KierkegaardCreativityPotential, Possible, Perception, See, Eye, Wealth, Power, PassionM
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.George Bernard ShawCreativityPath, Trail, Follow, Discover, ExplorationM
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert EinsteinCreativityMysterious, Mystery, Art, Science, Beauty, Experience, TrueM
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.R. Buckminster FullerCreativityDirection, Discover, ExplorationM
Talent is nothing but long patience.Gustave FlaubertCreativityTalent, Patience,M
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.Henry Van DykeCreativityTalent, Possess, Woods, Birds, Sing, Best, Silent, ActionM
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.NietzscheCreativitySong, Sing, Alone, Empty, House, Ears, SolitudeM
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.Diane ArbusCreativityPhotograph, Photographer, Secret, Knowledge, Less, MysteryF
I just took the energy it takes to pout and wrote the blues.Duke EllingtonCreativityEnergy, Pout, Blues, Sad, Creation, TransformationM
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie LeachCreativitySuccess, Fire, Self, Effort, Result, Spontaneous, ArtistMx
A writer, or for that matter any artist, is continually putting demands on the subconscious and producing results.Louis L’AmourCreativityWriter, Artist, Subconscious, Demand, ResultsM
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 GoghCreativityFire, Great, Soul, Alone, Smoke, People, Artist, SolitudeM
As artists, to cause awareness is our only strength.UnknownCreativityArtist, 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.MillerCreativityArt, Abundance, Life, Means, Point, Direction, People, Artist, End, DefeatM
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.T. S. EliotCreativityPoetry, Communicate, Understanding, GenuineM
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters. United with her, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of their marvels.GoyaCreativityFantasy, Reason, Monster, Mother, Art, Origin, UniteM
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing / than teach ten thousand stars not to dance.E. E. CummingsCreativityBird, Sing, Dance, Stars, LearnM
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. KennedyCreativityProblems, Difficulties, Solution, Skeptic, Cynic, Horizon, Limit, Obvious, Reality, People, Dream, Possibilities, ImaginationMx
You vote for reality with your imagination.UnknownCreativityImagination, Reality, Vote, Perception
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.Pablo PicassoCreativitySteal, Copy, Artists, Good, GreatM
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.T. S. EliotCreativityImmature, Mature, Poets, CopyM
I took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.Pablo PicassoCreativityPainter, Artist, Paint, Lifetime, ChildM
Art flourishes when there is a sense of adventure.Alfred North WhiteheadCreativityArt, Artist, Adventure, FlourishM
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.Ansel AdamsCreativityPhotography, Photographs, Good, RulesM
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.Vincent Van GoghCreativityGreat, Impulse, Small, Art, Artist, IntentionM
“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 ChoomarasawmyCreativityArt, Artist, Contemplation, Human, Celestial, Realm, Appreciation, Unity, External, Perception, Realization, SelfMx
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.Ansel AdamsCreativityFocus, Concept, Sharp, ArtM
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.CreativityArt, Artist, Life, Giving, Death, Embrace, Transcend, Gods, Price, WorthMx
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.D. H. LawrenceCreativitySoul, Beauty, NeedM
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. SeussCreativityBrain, Awaken, Nonsense, Telescope, Life, Wrong, Laugh, RealityM
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.Gertrude SteinCreativityGenius, Nothing, Time, SitF
"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 EinsteinSpiritHuman, 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, PerceptionMx
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."Carl JungSpiritSleep, Awaken, Outside, Within, Vision, Clear, HeartM
“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 EinsteinSpiritLife, Connection, Beginning, End, Existence, Person, Stream, Endless, Feeling, MysticalM
“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 CampbellSpiritGods, Divine, World, Realm, Human, ForgetM
"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it."Thich Nhat HanhSpiritChoice, Spirit, MomentM
"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 BaldwinSpiritSpirituality, Sacred, Center, Life, Mundane, Soul, OrdinaryF
"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 TaylorSpiritAuthentic, Honor, Power, Balance, Self, Choice, Dignity, Good, Risk, Difficult, Liberation, ActualizationF
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."Soren KierkegaardSpiritGod, Prayer, Influence, ChangeM
"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 EaswaranSpiritMeditation, Change, Lifetime, Master, Judge, Progress, Questions, Loving, Energy, Mind, Calm, Challenge, Anger, Fear, Greed, Spiritual, Awareness, Character, Development, Growth, Action, MysticalM
“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 SiegelSpiritWork, God, Career, Being, Self, Discover, Soul, LifeM
"All spiritual disciplines are done with a view to still the mind. The perfectly still mind is universal spirit."Ram DasSpiritStillness, Quiet, Mine, Perfect, Mind, Spirit, SpiritualM
"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 FosdickSpiritLife, World, Mystery, Small, Mind, Understanding, ThoughtM
"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?"William A. WardSpiritGod, Time, Gratitude, GiftM
“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 EaswaranSpiritFeed, Ego, Problems, Difficulties, Attention, Nothing, Ghost, Self, See, Divine, Shine, PresenceM
“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 MooreSpiritSoul, Hero, Ambition, Productivity, Efficiency, Creative, Nurture, Quiet, Stillness, Reflection, Beauty, Pleasure, Connection, Relationship, Animal, Rest, ActionM
“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 FulghumSpiritIntention, Habit, Wrong, Anger, Soul, AttentionM
"The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation."MilarepaSpiritMeditation, World, Forever, TimeM
"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 CohenSpiritWorld, Perception, Limitation, Light, Fly, Soar, Bird, Sacred, VisionMx
"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 BombeckSpiritGod, Life, Death, Hope, Talent, Purpose, WorkF
"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 EaswaranSpiritMotivation, Mind, Teach, Learn, Pure, Negative, Awareness, ConditioningM
"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 BabaSpiritLove, 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 EstesSpiritSoul, 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, HelpFx
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 EadieSpiritFaith, Movement, Ego, Spirit, Knock, Door, Sit, Wait, Acknowledgment, Change, Initiative, Perseverance, Love, Embrace, Step, Life, Possibilities, Self, ActionF
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 GleasonSpiritDreams, Creation, Life, Infinite, Creativity, Power, God, UniverseM
"When we take one step toward God, God takes seven steps toward us."Hindu ProverbSpiritStep, 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 HarveySpiritMystical, 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, UnityM
"The next message you need is right where you are."Ram DasSpiritMessage, Need, Presence, Help, SupportM
"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 MooreSpiritLive, World, Peace, Spirituality, Looking, Perception, Infinity, Appreciation, Depth, DivinityM
Love tells me I am everything. Wisdom tells me I am nothing. And between the two my life flows.Swami NisargadattaSpiritLove, Message, Wisdom, Nothing, EverythingMx
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 EinsteinSpiritOneness, Unity, Perception, Task, Liberate, Free, Prison, Compassion, Life, Separation, Sight, DelusionMx
"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-ZinnSpiritMindfulness, Present, Awareness, Judgment, Development, Capacity, Attention, Intention, Moment, Time, Process, Touch, Life, SelfB
"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 FiegerSpiritConsciousness, Unconscious, Mind, Communication, Harmony, Universal, Universe, Power, SelfFx
"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 LevineSpiritQuestion, Loving, Nothing, Release, Thought, Truth, Nature, Float, Surface, AcceptanceM
"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 PaddisonSpiritCompassion, Heart, Surrender, Hidden, Heart, God, Love, Force, Universe, Connection, People, Religious, Concept, Power, Tool, Voice, Direction, Intelligence, Perspective, Teacher, Within, SelfF
If your heart is pure, then all things in this world are pure.Zen sayingSpiritPure, Heart, World, Perception, Zen
The only thing that wants to get rid of the ego is the ego.Ken WilberSpiritEgo, Self, DesireM
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 SaganInsightSlavery, Freedom, Books, Learning, Reading, PathM
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 SaganInsightBlood, Fruit, Stars, Collapse, Science, Astronomy, UniverseMx
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 SaganInsightDolphin, Learning, HumanM
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 SaganInsightAstronomy, Science, Humanity, War, Violence, Cosmic, Blood, Misunderstanding, Kill, Death, Hatred, Universe, Darkness, Conceit, Human, World, Small, Responsibility, Kindness, Compassion, Relationship, HomeM
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.Carl SaganInsightSmall, Animals, Love, Vast, RelationshipMx
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answersCarl SaganInsightQuestions, Answers, Depth, Courage, World, MeaningM
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 SaganInsightCosmic, Perspective, Precious, Human, Disagreement, Tolerance, Live, UniverseMx
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 SaganSpiritScience, 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 SaganInsightBooks, Reading, Tree, Leaves, Voice, Time, Person, Dead, Author, Head, Human, Invention, People, MagicM
"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 HoughtonSpiritSpiritual, Growth, Reaction, Striving, Obstacles, Light, FlowerF
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 CooperSpiritSpiritual, Self, Eternal, Journey, Work, Disappear, Vanish, World, End, Death, Routine, Habit, ChangeM
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.BuddhaSpiritHappiness, Fire, Flame, Candle, Sharing, GenerosityM
Being self-centered is healthy if you know who is the self you are centered in.Alan CohenSpiritSelf, Knowledge, Center, Awareness, PerceptionM
"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 ChopraSpiritUnion, Enlightenment, Oneness, Mask, Illusion, Separation, Appearance, Wholeness, Perception, SeeingM
"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 YoganandaSpiritDifference, Person, God, Reflection, Soul, Thought, Stranger, Oneness, UnityM
"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 NeedlemanSpiritGod, History, Ideas, Experiences, Understanding, People, Heart, Life, ConsciousM
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. KennedySpiritDust, Time, Victory, Defeat, Battle, War, Politics, Contribution, Spirit, Human, Purpose, WorkM
God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction.Meister EckhartSpiritGod, Addition, Subtraction, Discovery, SelfM
"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 WalschSpiritLove, Action, Ears, Listen, Human, Relationships, QuestionMx
"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."OshoSpiritSharing, Giving, Generosity, Truth, Meditation, Love, Beauty, Inner, Self, Glow, Flame, Fire, Wealth, SelfM
“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 SchneiderSpiritWonder, Spirituality, Similarity, Faith, Science, Religion, Nature, ArtM
“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 WiederkehrSpiritWorld, Holy, Ordinary, Burning, Fire, Tree, Angel, Hidden, Beauty, Crumb, Discovery, Treasure, Perception, DivineF
"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 LevySpiritHeaven, Stars, Nothing, Comfort, Forgiveness, Self, God, Partner, Dance, Rhythm, Universe, Oneness, UnityM
Because God is real, the more real you are, the more you are like God.Alan CohenSpiritGod, Truth, Self, AuthenticityM
One's true religion is what one cares about most.Walter StarckeSpiritReligion, Priority, Care, TrueM
"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 BingenSpiritJustice, Creation, Awaken, Love, Deep, Respond, Threat, Passion, Sacred, ProtectF
"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 NelsonSpiritTrue, Self, Being, Aware, Experience, Life, VastF
"As long as I am this or that, I am not all things."Meister EckhartSpiritIdentity, Oneness, Unity, Self, ThoughtM
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 KhemaSpiritMindfulness, Present, Internal, External, Within, Motives, Learning, Change, Thoughts, Emotions, Transform, Wholesome, Suffering, Freedom, Buddha, Mind, PresenceF
"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 KornfieldSpiritSpiritual, Life, Discovery, Consciousness, Present, Welcome, Spirit, Wisdom, Heart, Kindness, Beauty, Suffering, Buddhist, Confusion, Fear, Injustice, World, Honoring, Truth, Freedom, PathM
"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."Aart Van Der LeeuwSpiritMystery, Life, Problem, Reality, ExperienceMx
You can't get a right brain answer to a left brain question. Ask your heart, not your mind.Alan CohenSpiritBrain, Question, Answer, Ask, Heart, MindM
“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 SchneiderSpiritWorld, Soul, Meaning, Conscious, Relationships, Work, Society, History, Human, Self, Inner, Community, Family, Transformation, ChangeM
"I'm not here to be successful. I'm here to be faithful."Mother TeresaSpiritSuccess, Faith, Work, Action, Devotion, ServiceFx
"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 LamaSpiritEssence, Love, Religion, Compassion, Kindness, God, Authenticity, Human, DevotionM
Love is natural. Cynicism is learned. Come home.Alan CohenSpiritCynicism, Love, Home, NaturalM
The first step to waking up is the discovery that you have been asleep.Alan CohenSpiritAwaken, 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 CohenSpiritWrong, Teacher, Right, Support, Help, Self, Inferior, SuperiorM
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.Alan CohenSpiritEnlightenment, Perfection, Presence, Stand, AskM
"If you don’t see God in all, then you don’t see God at all."UnknownSpiritGod, 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 EmersonSpiritGreat, People, Spiritual, Force, Material, Perception, See, ThoughtsM
"Without the assistance of the Divine Being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail."Abraham LincolnSpiritAssistance, Help, Divine, God, Being, Success, FailureM
"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 BrailsfordSpiritSee, Perception, Unity, Oneness, Animals, Birds, Fish, Power, Creation, Womb, Life, Potential, Connection, Web, SelfMx
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 responsibilitiesGandhiSpiritCausality, Violence, Mistake, Wealth, Work, Pleasure, Conscience, Knowledge, Character, Business, Morality, Science, Humanity, Religion, Sacrifice, Politics, Principles, ResponsibilityM
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.EmpedoclesSpiritGod, Circle, Center, Nowhere, Unity, OnenessM
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.BuddhaSpiritPath, Work, Belief, Angels, God, Exploration, Discovery, Heart, Mind, Body, Truth, DiligenceMx
"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."UpanishadsSpiritUnity, 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 SeattleSpiritAnimals, Native American, Spirit, Loneliness, Death, Connection, Earth, Son, RelationshipMx
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 SeattleSpiritHuman, Earth, Web, Life, Blood, Unity, Oneness, Connection, Unite, Strand, Native AmericanM
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 SeattleSpiritGod, Unity, Oneness, Connection, Unite, Native American, BrotherM
"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 GalileiSpiritSun, Fruit, Ripe, Universe, Planets, DependentM
"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 PlanckSpiritScience, Matter, Material, Force, Conscious, Mind, Matrix, QuantumM
The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us, even now in this very room.MorpheusSpiritMatrix, Illusion, TruthM
"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-nengSpiritWisdom, Enlightenment, Delusion, Confusion, Mind, Realization, Seek, Teachers, Advice, GuidanceM
Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.Tielhard de ChardinSpiritJoy, Presence, God, Sign, AttitudeM
"The older I grow, the more I trust in the law by which the rose and the lily bloom."GoetheSpiritRose, Flower, Bloom, Law, Aging, Trust, NatureM
"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."BuddhaSpiritBelief, Childhood, Reason, Truth, Self, Analysis, Discover, Good, Service, Live, Help, SupportM
Everything sacred moves in a Circle.Black ElkSpiritNative American, Sacred, CircleM
Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food.HippocratesSpiritFood, Medicine, HealthM
Sometimes naked, sometimes mad, now as a scholar, now as a fool, thus they appear on earth - the free ones!UnknownSpiritNaked, 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 KornfieldSpiritDestiny, Unique, Buddha, Personal, Life, Self, Expression, Form, IndividualityM
Concentration is the foundation of wisdom.BuddhaSpiritConcentration, Wisdom, BuddhistM
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 GodrakpaSpiritImpermanence, Mind, Empty, Sky, Thoughts, Breeze, Space, Think, Emptiness, Spring, MistM
You have been hired by the universe to be yourself.UnknownSpiritUniverse, Self, Work, Being
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.Dalai LamaSpiritKindness, Possibility, Practice, Consistency, BuddhismMx
When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.BuddhaSpiritSpeech, Words, Kindness, Truth, Change, World, BuddhistMx
There are two great days in a person's life; the day we are born and the day we discover why.William BarclaySpiritLife, Meaning, Purpose, Discovery, BirthMx
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.Abraham LincolnSpiritGood, Bad, Action, Religion, FeelingsM
"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 MorrisseySpiritGratitude, Feeling, Love, Children, Spiritual, Knowing, God, Source, Challenges, Life, DayF
"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 MorrisseySpiritSpirit, Heart, World, Improvement, Family, Work, Action, Community, Nation, Country, Inspire, ChangeF
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.Saint AugustineSpiritImmortality, Life, Remember, Live, KeyM
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.OshoSpiritFalse, Hope, Save, Self, Masters, Teachers, Search, Path, Walk, StraightM
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.UpanishadsSpiritHindu, 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!"RumiSpiritLife, Confusion, Insanity, Crazy, Door, Knock, Inside, Reason, Thinking, Search, SufiM
"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 DasSpiritSpirit, Universe, Unity, Oneness, Truth, Peace, Love, Light, IndiaM
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.Henry David ThoreauCreativityDreams, Confidence, Direction, Life, Live, ImaginationMx
When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard.Lakota proverbSpiritHuman, Nature, Heart, Hard, Separation, Native American
We are star-stuff contemplating the stars.Carl SaganSpiritStar, Contemplation, Self, Awareness, Oneness, UniverseMx
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 KornfieldSpiritSpiritual, Life, Good, Person, Holy, Birth, Remind, Self, TrueM
“We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.”Thich Nhat HanhSpiritTime, Possibilities, Present, Awareness, PotentialM
I used to be an atheist until I realized I am god.Alfred North WhiteheadSpiritGod, Atheism, Self, AwarenessM
To discover one’s own divinity is to become incapable of denying it in others.ShalomSpiritDivinity, Self, Awareness, Perception, Truth, People, DiscoverM
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 RobertsSpiritTruth, Oneness, Universe, God, Atom, Galaxy, Space, Movement, Awareness, Self, PeopleM
To grasp God’s beauty, you must become God.RumiSpiritGod, Beauty, Sufi, MysticalM
All I want to do is learn to think like God thinks. All the other things are just details.Albert EinsteinSpiritLearn, Think, Thought, God, Purpose, Science, LearningM
Mind creates the abyss – the heart crosses it.Nisagardatta MaharajSpiritMind, Abyss, HeartMx
Christ’s birth is always happening. And yet if it doesn’t happen now, how can it help me? Everything depends on that.Meister EckhartSpiritChrist, Birth, Now, Help, MysticalM
Liberation is liberation from the idea of liberation.Wei Wu WeiSpiritLiberation, Freedom, AwarenessM
It's no use walking anywhere to preach anything unless our walking is our preaching.St. Francis of AssisiSpiritWalk, Preach, Teach, Embody, ConsistentM
You will find yourself knee-deep in ecstasy when all your talents to love have reached their heights.HafizSpiritEcstasy, Love, Talent, Mystical, Sufi, HeightM
I believe that a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.Walt WhitmanSpiritGrass, Journey, Stars, Universe, MysticalM
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 BorgesSpiritLanguage, Human, Universe, Unity, Oneness, Nature, Animals, Grass, Earth, Mother, HeavenM
"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 BorgesSpiritLiterature, Creation, Consumption, History, Authors, WritersM
“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 BrunoSpiritWorld, Infinite, Divinity, Within, Self, CauseM
Prayer doesn’t change God. It changes me.C. S. LewisSpiritPrayer, God, Change, SelfM
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 HesseSpiritWorld, Perfection, Imperfect, Evolution, Moment, Sin, GraceM
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 HesseSpiritLoss, Soul, God, Fear, Soul, DesireM
There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves.Herman HesseSpiritLonely, God, Direction, SelfM
One who says no to himself cannot say yes to God.Herman HesseSpiritYes, No, Self, GodM
The life of a hedonist is the best preparation for being a mystic.Herman HesseSpiritMystic, Hedonist, PreparationM
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 HesseSpiritPrayer, Song, Trust, Ask, Desire, Sing, Suffering, Gratitude, Children, Hermit, Trees, Animals, Painter, Artist, Mountain, ArtM
Will you allow yourself to be hostage to the ego or host to God?Course in MiraclesSpiritHost, God, Self, Ego
I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.Albert CamusSpiritSelf, Space, Vast, EmptinessMx
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.PlutarchSpiritMind, Vessel, Fire, IgniteMx
Whoever knows himself knows God.MohammedSpiritSelf, Knowledge, God, Mystical, IslamM
Being is God.Meister EckhartSpiritBeing, God, SelfM
If God wished to hide, God would chose man to hide in.Hindu ProverbSpiritGod, 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 PatriarchSpiritEnlightenment, True, Self, Mind, World, Offend, Existence, Dislike, Senses, Ideas, Thoughts, Acceptance, Zen, BuddhismM
There is nothing that will cure the senses but the soul, and nothing that will cure the soul but the senses.Oscar WildeSpiritSoul, Senses, Cure, NothingM
When you see the unborn, uncreated, unconditioned, you are liberated from everything born, created, and conditioned.BuddhaSpiritBirth, Creation, Conditioned, Emptiness, See, Perception, Buddhist, FreedomM
Things are not as they seem, nor are they otherwise.Zen sayingSpiritAppearance, Perception
The golden age, which blind superstition situated behind or ahead of us is in us.RousseauSpiritTime, Within, Golden, Superstition, Self, Creativity, Perception, InnerMx
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 BorgesSpiritBook, Read, Write, Understand, History, People, UniverseM
A grain of sand left its father. Its father was a boulder. Only then was it introduced to an oyster, and became a pearl.RumiSpiritEvolution, Sufi, Mystical, Evolution, Pearl, OysterM
I love everything that flows.MiltonSpiritFlow, Water, LoveM
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of the ancient masters. Seek what they sought.Zen proverbSpiritSeek, Masters, Teachers, Footsteps, Discovery, Zen, Buddhism
Do not seek the truth, only cease to cherish your opinions.Zen proverbSpiritZen, Truth, Opinions
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.Zen proverbSpiritUnderstanding, Being, Zen, Buddhism
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.Shunryu SuzukiSpiritZen, Beginner, Expert, Possibility, Mind, LearningM
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.Chuang-tzuSpiritStillness, Quiet, Universe, Surrender, Open, TaoismM
When you seek it, you cannot find it.Zen proverbSpiritZen, 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 AssisiSpiritNecessary, Possible, Impossible, Action, EvolutionMx
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 NikayaSpiritTeaching, 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 WhitmanSpiritSoul, Evolution, Universe, Religion, Art, Governments, World, Road, PathM
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.Marcel ProustSpiritVoyage, Perception, Eyes, Discovery, Landscapes, New, FreshMx
Not always so.Zen sayingSpiritZen, Buddhism, Impermanence, Change
Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.R. H. BlythSpiritZen, Buddhism, Symbols, Thinking, Ideas, World, MindM
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 EinsteinSpiritMind, Spirit, Details, Perception, Mystical, VastM
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 EinsteinSpiritScience, Laws, Universe, Vast, Power, Humble, DivineM
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 EinsteinSpiritScience, Scientist, Religion, Feeling, Law, Intelligence, Divine, Human, Vast, Thinking, Thought, ReflectionMx
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 EinsteinSpiritIntuition, Mind, Gift, Sacred, Servant, Forget, Society, ConfusionMx
When the solution is simple, God is answering.Albert EinsteinSpiritGod, Solution, Problem, AnswerM
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 EinsteinSpiritMind, Universe, Child, Library, Books, Language, Written, Plan, Order, Human, Understand, GuessM
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 EinsteinSpiritQuestion, Curiosity, Awe, Mystery, Eternity, Life, Reality, Holy, MindM
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 EinsteinSpiritNature, Imperfect, Understand, Thought, Person, Humility, Religious, Divine, OrderM
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.Albert EinsteinSpiritReligion, True, Living, Life, Soul, Good, EmbodyM
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 EinsteinSpiritMystic, Emotion, Feeling, Art, Science, Wonder, Fear, Dead, Manifest, Wisdom, Beauty, Radiant, Knowledge, ReligiousMx
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 ZenjiSpiritZen, Buddhism, Koan, Self, Buddha, Way, Body, Mind, Emptiness, Oneness, Nothing, Realization, EternalMx
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. SuzukiSpiritZen, Buddhism, Nature, True, Mind, Buddha, Way, Insight, SelfM
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 BlakeSpiritPerception, Door, Infinite, Human, CleanseMx
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.UnknownSpiritStars, Soul, Dream, Goal
To know and not do is not yet to know.Zen sayingSpiritZen, 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-kwanSpiritPerception, See, Fire, Lantern, Food, Self, MysticalM
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.RamakrishnaSpiritAnimal, Perception, Deer, Search, World, Self, Mystical, HinduM
Don’t be like the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.RumiSpiritSufi, Perception, Horse, Animal, Mystical, SelfM
The thinker is the thought.KrishnamurtiSpiritThinker, Thought, Self, AwarenessM
"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, AstronautRelationshipsEarth, Planet, History, Music, Poetry, Art, Death, Birth, Love, Tears, Joy, Recognize, Life, World, Relationship, Experience, Mystical, OnenessM
“Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.”Eknath EaswaranRelationshipsTool, Divinity, Human, Within, Self,M
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.Leo BuscagliaRelationshipsGive, Joy, Gain, Love, MeaningM
"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule."Albert EinsteinRelationshipsDestiny, Love, Rule, Serve, Service, HighM
“For it is in giving that we receive.”St. Francis of AssisiRelationshipsGiving, Service, ReceiveM
"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 JamesRelationshipsKindness, Life, ImportanceM
"Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections."Katherine PatersonRelationshipsPeace, Differences, Open, Mind, Heart, Seek, Discover, ConnectionsF
"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 WilliamsonRelationshipsLove, Delusion, Emotional, Skill, Magic, Morning, Moon, Lifetime, TruthF
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.Anthony RobbinsRelationshipsGive, Contribute, Service, Meaning, Life, ReceiveM
The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?Margaret GattyRelationshipsTime, Love, FightF
“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.”UnknownRelationshipsHeart, Expand, Love, Touch, People, Give, Need, Self, Service, Share
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.SenecaRelationshipsShare, 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 RogersRelationshipsHumor, Marriage, Discover, ChangeM
"Being considerate of others will take you further in life than a college degree."Marian Wright EdelmanRelationshipsCompassion, Education, Consideration, People, LifeF
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."Mark TwainRelationshipsKindness, Life, LanguageM
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."Mohammed AliRelationshipsService, Money, Earth, People, GivingM
"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 SchweitzerRelationshipsGiving, Service, Path, Life, HappinessM
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. JohnsonRelationshipsSelf, Love, Action, Being, Connection, Oneness, Effort, Intention, FlowMx
"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 LennonRelationshipsLoveM
“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.”KrishnamurtiRelationshipsLove, Depth, Ecstasy, Discover, Transformation, Change, Self, WorldM
"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 RuizRelationshipsLove, Life, Force, Miracles, Heart, Connection, Soul, Human, Speech, Head, Resistance, Change, Transformation, Open, True, PossibleMx
Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.Max LucadoRelationshipsConflict, War, Combat, ChoiceM
"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 EaswaranRelationshipsMystic, Love, Spiritual, Knowledge, Action, Depth, Consciousness, Wisdom, Perception, Need, Intuition, Clear, Desire, Creative, Action, Obstacle, Power, VastMx
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.Jeanne KirkpatrickRelationshipsWar, Desire, Peace, ConflictF
"The first duty of love is to listen."Paul TillichRelationshipsListen, Love, DutyM
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."Mark TwainRelationshipsGrief, Joy, Share, GiveM
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 ChardinRelationshipsLove, Fragments, World, Seek, Being, Wholeness, Unity, UnificationM
Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace.Rainer Maria RilkeRelationshipsFreedom, Human, Existence, Peace, World, ServiceM
"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 MooreRelationshipsOpen, People, Conversation, Courage, RiskM
Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.Stanley HorowitzRelationshipsAnger, Conversation, Voice, DegradeM
"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 GandhiRelationshipsConsciousness, Service, Habit, Cultivate, Intention, Desire, Grow, Strengthen, Happiness, World, CommunityM
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 SimmsRelationshipsLove, Touch, True, Inner, Self, Being, Warmth, Light, Authentic, Work, Awaken, Reminder, Seek, Within, Outside, Mirror, Reflect, Need, Anxious, Empower, Message, PeaceM
"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 GawainRelationshipsPeople, Mirror, Reflection, Beliefs, Tool, Power, Honesty, CreationF
"No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."George EliotRelationshipsLonely, Human, Feel, Trust, ReverenceF
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.Mother TeresaRelationshipsJudge, Love, TimeF
“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 MertonRelationshipsTruth, Listening, Receive, Share, CommunicationM
"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."MaharishiRelationshipsLove, World, Acceptance, Ego, Search, Weakness, Strength, Simple, Exhausting, Fault, Nothing, Appreciation, CriticismM
"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."OshoRelationshipsUnique, Love, Celebrate, People, Beauty, Acceptance, Self, World, Growth, Soil, Bloom, FlowerM
"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 TeresaRelationshipsOcean, Service, Giving, SmallFx
"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 EmersonRelationshipsReward, Help, Self, LifeMx
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."Lao-tzuRelationshipsTaoism, Kindness, Confidence, Thinking, Profound, Giving, LoveM
"Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."Emily KimbroughRelationshipsStumble, Path, Hand, Support, Help, ComfortF
"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 GrayRelationshipsPain, Person, Help, Suffering, Growth, Compassionate, Nothing, Responsible, Understanding, FeelingMx
"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 GandhiRelationshipsViolence, Thoughts, Opinion, Criticize, Attack, Ego, SuccessM
"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 TrifilettiRelationshipsForgiveness, Creativity, Society, Win, Conquer, Competition, Deep, Listening, Understanding, Acceptance, Difference, Perspectives, Ladder, Business, Assumptions, Work, Teamwork, Open, Door, AbundanceF
"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 DrummondRelationshipsReflection, Life, Spirit, Love, Action, LookM
"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 HamiltonRelationshipsFrustration, 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 MertonRelationshipsCompassion, Awareness, Interdependence, Connection, Beings, Animals, Life, NatureM
"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."John D. Rockefeller, Jr.RelationshipsGenerosity, Giving, Service, Duty, Privilege, WealthM
"No one has ever become poor by giving."Anne FrankRelationshipsGiving, Wealth, Service, PovertyF
"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 SecretanRelationshipsLeadership, Open, Heart, Inspiration, Self, People, Great, Human, Experience, Process, Action, Attitude, RoutineM
"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."Maya AngelouRelationshipsLiberation, 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."BuddhaRelationshipsGenerosity, Joy, Intention, Giving, Buddhist, Action, RememberM
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."Winston ChurchillRelationshipsLiving, Work, Life, Give, ReceiveM
"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses."Chinese proverbRelationshipsGiving, Rose, Flower, Fragrance
"There are those who give with joy, and joy is their reward."Kahlil GibranRelationshipsGiving, Joy, Reward, GenerosityM
"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 BorysenkoRelationshipsForgiveness, Mistakes, Wounds, Guilt, Cripple, Soul, Growth, Isolation, Whole, Connection, Self, People, VastF
"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself."Galileo GalileiInsightDiscovery, Teach, Learning, Self, WithinM
The best things in life aren't things.Art BuchwaldInsightLifeM
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 CarrettoRelationshipsLove, Sadness, Faith, Joy, Alone, Isolated, Solitude, Hell, Heaven, Discover, Transform, ChangeM
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 BradshawRelationshipsSadness, Healing, Painful, Avoid, Release, Energy, Emotions, Pain, Freeze, GriefM
"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 EliotRelationshipsDespair, Grief, Sorry, Suffer, Healing, HopeF
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.Lao-tzuRelationshipsTaoism, Happiness, Greed, Fear, UnhappinessM
When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.Sufi sayingRelationshipsSufism, 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. WatsonRelationshipsBig, People, Generosity, ConsistentM
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 DykeRelationshipsAmbition, High, Help, Support, Humankind, GenerosityM
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.Kahlil GibranRelationshipsGenerosity, Pride, Take, Giving, NeedM
A great relationship is not something that happens to you. It is something you choose.Alan CohenRelationshipsLove, ChoiceMx
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.John E. SouthardRelationshipsHelp, People, Generosity, Humor, RevengeMx
"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 FullerRelationshipsEarth, Survival, Perception, See, Connection, Interdependence, United, CommunityM
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.Marshall McLuhanRelationshipsEarth, Planet, United, Community, Teamwork,M
Know love, know happiness. No love, no happiness.UnknownRelationshipsLove, Happinessx
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 ButterflyRelationshipsLife, Challenges, Remember, Power, Love, Ripples, Ocean, Planet, Earth, Interdependence, Connection, Unity, Words, Speech, Action, Thoughts, Create, Reality, Change, Transform, Positive, FutureF
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 SchweitzerRelationshipsLife, Fire, Flame, Inner, Human, Inner, Spirit, SelfM
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 MertonRelationshipsBeginning, Love, Image, Reflection, Self, SeeM
Character is much easier kept than recovered.Thomas PaineRelationshipsCharacter, Preservation, IdentityM
There is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving.CamusRelationshipsMisery, Love, Loving, MisfortuneM
"Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great."Roger DeBussy-RabutinRelationshipsLove, Wind, Fire, Great, AbsenceM
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."Abraham LincolnRelationshipsDestroy, Enemy, Friend, Change, TransformMx
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."Mahatma GandhiRelationshipsEye, Revenge, ForgivenessM
"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings."Hodding Carter, Jr.RelationshipsRoots, Wings, Children, GiveM
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 WesleyRelationshipsAction, Good, Time, Enthusiasm, Consistency, ServiceM
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."Dalai LamaRelationshipsCompassion, Practice, Happiness, BuddhismMx
"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."Ethiopian proverbRelationshipsAnimals, Lion, Spider, Web, Teamwork, Unite, Together, Strength
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."Mark TwainRelationshipsHappiness, Help, SupportM
"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 PealeRelationshipsLove, Fear, Fact, Practice, High, Touch, LiveM
"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 LamaRelationshipsCompassion, Essence, Spiritual, Practice, Life, Happiness, Peace, World, Whole, ContributionM
"Loving someone deeply gives you strength, while being deeply loved gives you courage."Lao-tzuRelationshipsLove, Strength, CourageM
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.Karen SundeRelationshipsLove, Heaven, SeeF
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.EmersonRelationshipsMasterpiece, Nature, FriendM
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.Jennie Jerome ChurchillRelationshipsFriend, Perception, LightF
There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.Anne Sophie SwetchineRelationshipsExample, Embody, Power, Transcendent, Change, Transform, WalkF
"Is there a principle, which can form the basis for one's whole life? Yes. Love for your fellow human beings."Bruno GröningRelationshipsLove, Human, Life, PrincipleM
"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."RumiRelationshipsLove, Romance, Lovers, Search, WithinM
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 SaganCreativityLibrary, Books, Learning, Knowledge, Nature, Mind, Teachers, Planet, Science, Civilization, Health, Depth, Awareness, Culture, SupportM
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 SaganInsightFeeling, Good, Questions, Depth, Courage, Answers, Embrace, Willingness, TruthM
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 SaganInsightUniverse, Planet, Earth, Culture, Rock, Metal, Stars, Infinite, Perspective, Life, Culture, Scale, Vast, ContemplateM
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 SaganInsightUniverse, Scale, Vast, Human, Understanding, Eternity, Small, Home, Planet, Earth, Cosmic, Concerns, Evolution, Wonder, Understanding, Knowledge, Survival, Future, Sky, Science, TimeM
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 SaganInsightNature, Mystery, Deep, Touch, Wonder, Awe, Fear, Universe, Human, Superstition, WorldM
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 SaganInsightScience, Error, Correction, Machinery, Criticism, Test, World, Facts, SuperstitionM
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.Carl SaganInsightUniverse, Self, KnowledgeM
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 SaganInsightHuman, Species, Beautiful, Dream, Nightmares, Lost, Alone, Isolated, Search, Emptiness, CompanionshipM
But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.Carl SaganInsightNature, Imagine, Elegant, ScienceM
You have to know the past to understand the present.Carl SaganInsightPast, Present, Understand, TimeM
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing.Carl SaganInsightScience, Atoms, Empty, Space, NothingM
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.Carl SaganInsightSkepticism, Analysis, Science, Religion, Deep, Thinking, NonsenseM
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 SaganInsightNations, Politics, Intellect, Morality, Leaders, Death, Leadership, Talent, Understanding, CriticismM
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 SaganInsightUniverse, Science, Stars, Atoms, Sun, Birth, Spark, Sunlight, Water, Planets, Evolution, Explosion, Beauty, Galaxy, Earth, Superstition, Understand, HumanM
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science.Carl SaganInsightCreativity, Skepticism, Science, TensionM
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 SaganInsightScience, Universe, Memory, Height, Mystery, GreatM
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.Carl SaganInsightUniverse, Vast, Space, ScaleM
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 SaganInsightCulture, Society, History, Time, Truth, World, Change, Nation, Religion, Knowledge, Answers, Survival, Science, Discover, WorkM
The visions we offer our children shape the future.Carl SaganInsightChildren, Future, CreateM
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.Carl SaganSpiritScience, Spirituality, SourceM
The ten thousand questions are one question. If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear.Zen proverbSpiritQuestions, Disappear, Zen
Though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely.Zen proverbSpiritZen, 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 proverbSpiritZen, Path, Master, Walk, See
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.Robert M. PirsigSpiritZen, Mountain, Discover, SelfM
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.Yasutani RoshiSpiritZen, Delusion, Humanity, Inner, Outer, Self, IdentityM
Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine.Shunryu SuzukiSpiritZen, Concentration, Ordinary, RoutineM
To set up what you like against what you don't like - this is the disease of the mind.Seng T'san, Third Zen PatriarchSpiritZen, Disease, Mind, PreferencesM
No yesterday, no tomorrow, and no today.Seng T'san, Third Zen PatriarchSpiritZen, Time, Now, Past, FutureM
Don't seek reality, just put an end to opinions.Seng T'san, Third Zen PatriarchSpiritZen, Opinion, Reality, EndM
When you get there, there isn't any there there.Gertrude SteinSpiritZen, JourneyF
Nothing is exactly as it seems, nor is it otherwise.Alan WattsSpiritZen, Nothing, PerceptionM
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 WieselSpiritZen, Mysticism, Knowledge, Philosophy, VerticalM
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 HuikaiSpiritZen, Flower, Spring, Moon, Autumn, Winder, Breeze, Snow, Mind, Season, Life, Perception, ClarityM
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 HuikaiSpiritZen, Clear, Touch, Fire, Food, Cook
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.Zen proverbSpiritZen, War, Battle, Self, Violence
Life is the only thing worth living for.Zen proverbSpiritZen, Life, Living
There is nothing infinite apart from finite things.Zen proverbSpiritZen, Infinite, Finite, Nothing
Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.Zen proverbSpiritZen, Doubt, Great, Awakening, Enlightenment, Small
Sitting peacefully doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows all by itself.Zen proverbSpiritZen, Sit, Peaceful, Peace, Spring, Grass, Growth
Even a good thing isn't as good as nothing.Zen proverbSpiritZen, Nothing, Good
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.Elias CanettiInsightObserve, Animal, Human, SitM
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.William JamesInsightWisdom, Perception, ForgivenessM
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 LarsenInsightLife, Affirmation, Attitude, Devour, Destroy, Death, Obstacles, Cruelty, Signs, Spiritual, Adventure, Physical, WorldM
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.Eleanor RooseveltInsightAction, Impossible, Possible, ThinkFx
Until the mind loves itself, there is no love.Byron KatieInsightMind, Love, SelfF
Hell is what you are believing that takes you away from heaven, now.Byron KatieInsightHeaven, Hell, Belief, ConfusionF
There's only one of us here.Byron KatieInsightSelf, Oneness, UnityF
"Every atom belonging to you equally belongs to me."Walt WhitmanSpiritAtom, Self, UnityM
"Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they will never cease to be amused."UnknownHumorLaughter, Self
The soul is here for its own joy.RumiInsightSoul, Joy, SelfM
"The pain is equal to the attachment."Sabrina Ward HarrisonInsightAttachment, Pain, BuddhismF
"You've got to pray like it's all up to God, and work like it's all up to you."Reverend Cecil WilliamsSpiritPray, Work, GodM
"The ego is the mind's belief that it is completely on its own."A Course in MiraclesInsightEgo, Mind, AloneF
"The world is what I believe to be true."Byron KatieInsightWorld, Belief, TruthF
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out."Dee HockBusinessThoughts, New, Innovation, OldM
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.Wayne GretskyBusinessOpportunity, ActionM
Al great truths begin as blasphemies.George Bernard ShawInsightTruth, BeginM
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.Angelus SilesiusSpiritGod, Self, PresenceM
We are, all of us, the divine spirit gazing upon itself in a gigantic mirror.Philip ToshidoSpiritDivine, God, Self, Mirror, LookM
The one has many manifestations, and the many have one essence.Zen proverbSpiritOneness, Unity, Essence, Buddhist
You must become somebody before you can become nobody.Zen proverbSpiritBuddhist, Nobody, Self
The truth has no concern for what we think it should be.Byron KatieInsightTruth, ThinkF
With internal spaciousness, feelings happen within you rather than to you.Arduna ArdaghInsightFeelings, EmotionsM
Love is the final destination of the soul, and the road that leads it home.Jeffrey LeaverInsightLove, Soul, HomeM
What sustains the artist is the look of love in the eyes of the beholder.Henry MillerCreativityArtist, Art, LoveM
Always give without remembering and receive without forgetting.Brian TracyRelationshipsGiving, Generosity, RememberM
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.Rabindranath TagoreBusinessService, Joy, DreamsMx
Most of us spend our lives as if we have another one in the bank.Ben IrwinInsightLife, TimeM
Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.Richard AvedonCreativityCreativity, 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 ZenjiSpiritNirvana, Reality, Mind, WorldMx
‎Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.ThoreauInsightSeek, Search, FishM
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.Dorothea LangeCreativityArt, Photography, PerceptionF
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 DurkheimSpiritDestruction, Indestructible
Your work is to discover your true work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it completely.BuddhaSpiritWork, Purposex
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.Wayne GretzkyInsightStrategyMx
Eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.WittgensteinSpiritLife, Present, Presence, EternalM
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 OwingsCreativityLove, Fear, CreativityMx
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.Paulo CoelhoCreativityDream, Possibility, LifeMx
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye - it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.Edvard MunchCreativityNature, Soul, VisibleM
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 HanhSpiritPerception, Flower, Rain, CloudsMx
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.Thomas JeffersonBusinessWork, LuckMx
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. SeussInsightLove, WeirdM
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 JobsBusinessWork, Love, Passion, SearchMx
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.Alice WalkerInsightPower, PerceptionF
Success is what happens when 10,000 hours of preparation meet with one moment of opportunity.Anon.BusinessSuccess, Preparation, OpportunityAnon.x
If everything feels under control, you’re just not driving fast enough.Mario AndrettiBusinessControl, SpeedM
Be yourself; everone else is already taken.Oscar WildeHumorSelfMx
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.Galileo GalileiSpiritStars, Love, Night, FearMx
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.Joseph CampbellInsightLife, Being, SelfMx
A fool who persists in his folly will become wise.William BlakeInsightWisdom, fool, follyM
Style makes you feels great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.Isaac MizrahiHumorStyle, DeathM
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.Bruce LeeInsightDefeat, Education, ImprovementM
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.RumiRelationshipsLove, SeekM
As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.Thich Nhat HanhRelationshipsLove, Peace, HappinessMx
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 EmersonInsightWorld, Perception, Lie, MortalityM
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. SuzukiSpiritZen, Archery, PracticeM
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.Debby BooneSpiritSeeds, change, dreamF
The entire fruit is already present in the seed.TertullianInsightSeed, Fruit
To see things in the seed, that is genius.Lao-tzuInsightSeed, Perception, SeeingMx
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 ShakespeareInsightSeed, NothingnessM
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes…Arthur Conan DoyleInsightPerceptionM
The power of imagination makes us infinite.John MuirCreativityImagination, Power, InfitieMx
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 RohnBusinessGoals, Plan, Growth, Focus, IntentionM
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark.Zen proverbInsightDarkness, Shadow, Perception
There is no remedy for love but to love more.Henry David ThoreauRelationshipsLove, Cure.MX
The world is its own magic.Shunryu SuzukiSpiritWorld, MagicMX
Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.Alan CohenInsightHappiness, World, GratitudeMX
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.Pema ChödrönSpiritF
Keep your mind on the things you want and off those you don't.Bruce LeeInsightMind, Focus, AttentionM
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn.Terri GuillemetsCreativityDance, 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. LawrenceInsightDream, Creation, PossibilityM
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.H. H. The Dalai LamaRelationshipsLove, Compassion, Humanity, SurvivalM
If you're going through hell, keep going.Winston ChurchillRelationshipsChallenges, PerseverenceM
If you are going to retire from anything, retire from fear and illusion.Alan CohenInsightLetting go, Fear, IllusionM
To err is human; to forgive, divine.Alexander PopeRelationshipsForgiveness, Error, Mistakes, DivineM
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.Thomas FullerRelationshipsForgiveness, Bridge, NeedM
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.Mahatma GandhiRelationshipsForgiveness, Strength, WeaknessM
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 MarxHumorReality, FoodM
Music is the shorthand of emotionLeo TolstoiMusic, EmotionM
The successful person is the average person with laser-like focus.Bruce LeeBusinessSuccess, FocusM
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.James A. BaldwinBusinessPossibility, Possible, ActionM
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 CastanedaInsightWarrior, ChallengeM
Know thyself, and you will know all the mysteries and wisdom of the Gods.The Oracle of DelphiSelf-knowledge, Mysteryx
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.PlatoCreativityx
What you think you become.BuddhaInsightThought, CreationMx
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.Thomas MertonCreativitySelf-discoveryMx
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.Vincent van GoghCreativityArtM
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything buy temptation.Oscar WildeHumorM
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.Tom RobbinsM
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.Henri MatisseCreativityArtM
Your body is woven from the light of heaven.RumiSpiritMx
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 PatanjaliCreativityGrowth, Evolution, Changex
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 SuzukiInsightPerception, LearningM
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.RumiHealingMx
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 WilliamsonHealingW
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.Marcel ProustHealing, SufferingM
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 LamaM
The mind, when it is the proper state, is ready to respond in any direction.Alan WattsAlert, ResponsivenessM
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 TagoreOptimismM
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 TagoreLoveM
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.Rabindranath TagoreEducationM
The wise use memories, but do not allow memories to use them.The VedasFailure, Success, DiscoveryFx
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.RumiLoveMx
When you love someone fully, you are always kissing the divine.Jeff BrownM
It always seems impossible until it's done.Nelson MandelaBusinessCreativity, possibilityMx
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 FullerSpiritMysteryMx
You become mature when you become the authority for your own life.Joseph CampbellInsightM
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.DogenSpiritMx
“Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.”GurdjieffSpiritM
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.Alan WattsInsightMx
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 ThoreauInsightMx
If we want to understand the psyche we have to include the whole world.Carl JungInsightSelf awarenessM
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.Abraham LincolnBusinessSuccess, DeterminationM
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.RelationshipsLove, Transformation,Mx
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.RumiInsightDance, Freedom, Grief, Healing, ConflictMx
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?Eleanor RooseveltRelationshipsConscience, VengenceF
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.Ernest HemingwayGrowth, Self-improvementMx
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.”Friedrich NietzscheMx
Teamwork is the secret that makes common people achieve uncommon results.Ifeanyi OnuohaTeamworkM
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 AliInsightPossibilitiesM
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.Emily DickinsonRelationshipsDeath, life, loveF
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.Woodrow WilsonTeamwork, collaborationMx

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