Quotes

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
~Alan Alda~

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world
can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
~Saul Alinsky~

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
~Woody Allen~

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you.
But other people who do will come along.
~Lisa Alther~

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
~Walter Anderson~

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
~Richard Bach~

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.
You seek problems because you need their gifts.
~Richard Bach~

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
~D.A. Battista~

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door
that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
~Alexander Graham Bell~

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.
~Fanny Brice~

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.
~Rita Mae Brown~

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand;
gratitude brings joy and laughter into your lives
and into the lives of all those around you.
~Eileen Caddy~

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
~Carlos Castaneda~

A common, faulty belief holds that true love and romance means harmony of thought-
Whereas I am of the opinion, if we agree on everything, one of us is unnecessary.
~Patsy Clairmont~

The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation -
But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
~Alan Cohen~

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
~Confucius~

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~Confucius~

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.
~Max Depree~

Problems can never be solved by using the same pattern of thought which created them.
~Albert Einstein~

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
~Albert Einstein~

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
~James Dillet Freeman~

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
~Robert Frost~

We must become the change we want to see.
~Mahatma Gandhi~

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~Thich Nhat Hanh~

In social settings I am awkward. How can we be real with so many strangers?
How can we smile and tell the truth to so many people we don't know. Small talk
makes me feel the way I do when a mosquito is buzzing around my head -irritated-
and then finally unable to get any relief I just slaughter the damn thing.
I slaughter the moment by saying something real.
~Bell Hooks: "Wounds of Passion-A Writing Life"~

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
~Shirley Hufstedler~

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~Erica Jong~

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart-
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
~Carl Jung~

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
~Marilyn Moats Kennedy~

People are like stained-glass windows- they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross~

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao-Tzu~

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
~Erin Majors~

Faith is the refusal to panic.
~David Martyn Lloyd-Jones~

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
~Cadet Maxim~

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you
try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant
things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
~Thomas Merton~

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
~Reinhold Niebuhr~

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
~Anais Nin~

“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively.
"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
~Trina Paulus~

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
~Pilpay~

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~Plato~

What matters is finding joy, not having reasons. Reasons
only matter when we justify why we didn't go for the joy.
~Marty Whited~

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
~Frederick Wilcox~

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers that cannot be given you - because you would not be able to live them, and the point is to live everything. So live the questions now. Perhaps you will gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers.
~Reinard Wilkie~

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel~

I froze before the keyboard. I couldn't think of a damn thing to say. No poems, no prose, no words. The pain cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify it or push it outside or find its beauty within.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel~

When you are with others, be with them wholeheartedly.
But when you are by yourself, be alone with God.
~Yogananda~

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.
~Kirsten Zambucka~

As long as we are unwilling to commit ourselves to positive action, we remain bound to negative tendencies.
~source unknown~

In our lives, we experience feelings of imbalance and sometimes fear just before
we are about to evolve to a higher degree of consciousness.
~source unknown~

It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.
~source unknown~

When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
~source unknown~