~ Lynn Grabhorn

"Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy."

~ Starhawk

"You only get as far in the world as your desires are high."

~ Mark Victor Hansen

 ~ Dalai Lama

"Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."

~ Buddha

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."

 ~ Plato

"Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another."

 ~ Marcus Aurelius

"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

~ Roger Babson

"If you offer everything to the Divine, the Divine will accept and change it, even the worse things. It is not what you offer but that you offer which is important."

 ~ Mother Meera

"Where there's a will, there's a way, and where there's a child, there's a will."

~ Marcelene Cox

"Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly."

 ~ Osho

"People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more."

~ Margaret Collier Graham

"What makes us afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes and animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly."

~ Edna O'Brien

"It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return."

"Your own heart is your guru."

~ Swami Shivananda

"New experiences trigger change only if they cause us to question our beliefs. Remember, whenever we believe something, we no longer question it in any way. The moment we begin to honestly question our beliefs, we no longer feel absolutely certain about them... In fact, many of our beliefs are supported by information we received from others that we we failed to question at the time."

"We have the tool of thought within us to create a thousand joys or a thousand ills."

~ James Allen

"Eternity is not the hereafter...this is it. If you don't get it here you won't get it anywhere."

~ Joseph Campbell

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bonds;
Your mind transcends limitations,
your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world.
Dormant forces, faculties and talents
become alive, and you discover yourself
to be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed yourself to be."

~ Patanjali

"A man can not be comfortable without his own approval."

~ Mark Twain

"If there is hope in the future, there is power in the present."

~ John Maxwell

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

~ Marcus Aurelius

"Faith is like a toothbrush. Every man should have one and use it regularly, but her shouldn't try to use someone else's."

~ J.G. Stipe

"Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you."

~ Carlos Castaneda

"So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything."

"Your soul mission is your reason for being, your life purpose. It's your calling in life--who you feel called to be, what you feel called to do. Mission is an energy that flows through you--a drive, voice, or passion that you cannot ignore... It's what you know in your heart you must live if you are to experience inner peace and harmony."

~ Alan Seale

"The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each it's due place in our thought and feelings: to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it."

"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade."

"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou has attained it—thou art a fool."

"Self-love in not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others."

"Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear."

"Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self."

"Words are the most powerful
drug used by mankind."

"Each morning sees some task begun,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"What does not destroy me, 
makes me stronger."

"A sage is content in the knowledge that the Lord is running the universe and never considers that anything has been done amiss."

"Our only true course is to let the motive for action be in the action itself, never in it's reward; not to be incited by the hope of the result, nor yet indulge a propensity for inertness."

"The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life."

~ Woody Allen

"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be."

~ Lactantius