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  • Theodore Roosevelt
    "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
    — Theodore Roosevelt


  • Marianne Williamson
    "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, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
    — Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)


  • Mother Teresa
    "Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
    Life is beauty, admire it.
    Life is a dream, realize it.
    Life is a challenge, meet it.
    Life is a duty, complete it.
    Life is a game, play it.
    Life is a promise, fulfill it.
    Life is sorrow, overcome it.
    Life is a song, sing it.
    Life is a struggle, accept it.
    Life is a tragedy, confront it.
    Life is an adventure, dare it.
    Life is luck, make it.
    Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
    Life is life, fight for it."
    — Mother Teresa


  • Gordon B. Hinckley
    "Try a little harder to be a little better."
    — Gordon B. Hinckley


  • Arundhati Roy
    "To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget."
    — Arundhati Roy


  • Mother Teresa
    "People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
    If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

    If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

    If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

    The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

    For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
    — Mother Teresa


  • Marilyn Monroe
    "I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
    — Marilyn Monroe


  • Jim Morrison
    "The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."
    — Jim Morrison


  • "I'll figure out how to be truer: to let people go if they need to be let go of, and to hold on tight if that's what's called for. I will pay attention, so I can cross each human heart that comes across my path, cross it as true as I can."
    — Laura Pritchett (Sky Bridge: A Novel)


  • Betty Friedan
    "It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself."
    — Betty Friedan


  • "The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are– bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength."
    — Charles Handy


  • "My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flowers or weeds."
    — Mel Weldon


  • Henry Ward Beecher
    "We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
    — Henry Ward Beecher


  • Mother Teresa
    "Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
    — Mother Teresa


  • Maya Angelou
    "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
    — Maya Angelou


  • Maya Angelou
    "Still I Rise


    You may write me down in history
    With your bitter, twisted lies,
    You may trod me in the very dirt
    But still, like dust, I'll rise.

    Does my sassiness upset you?
    Why are you beset with gloom?
    'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
    Pumping in my living room.

    Just like moons and like suns,
    With the certainty of tides,
    Just like hopes springing high,
    Still I'll rise.

    Did you want to see me broken?
    Bowed head and lowered eyes?
    Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
    Weakened by my soulful cries.

    Does my haughtiness offend you?
    Don't you take it awful hard
    'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
    Diggin' in my own back yard.

    You may shoot me with your words,
    You may cut me with your eyes,
    You may kill me with your hatefulness,
    But still, like air, I'll rise.

    Does my sexiness upset you?
    Does it come as a surprise
    That I dance like I've got diamonds
    At the meeting of my thighs?

    Out of the huts of history's shame
    I rise
    Up from a past that's rooted in pain
    I rise
    I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
    I rise
    Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
    I rise
    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
    I rise
    I rise
    I rise."
    — Maya Angelou


  • "Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not."
    — Virginia Satir


  • Utah Phillips
    "The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're
    born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you
    assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to
    which you resist is the degree to which you are free..."
    — Utah Phillips


  • "There comes a time when every life goes off course; in this desperate
    moment you must choose your direction. Will you fight to stay on the
    path while others tell you who you are? Or will you label yourself?
    Will you be honored by your choice or will you embrace your new path?
    Each morning you choose to move forward or simply give up."
    — One Tree Hill


  • Maya Angelou
    "I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
    — Maya Angelou


  • "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over; it became a butterfly."
    — Anonm


  • Carla Jo Masterson
    "Love does not cost anything. Kind words and deeds do not cost anything. The real beauty of the world is equal for everyone to see. It was given by God equally to all, without restrictions.

    Everyone, was given a beautiful vehicle in which to express love to others. Feelings are free to express and give to ourselves and each other through our willingness to give and care.

    What is complicated about this... Why have we made others feel they have to climb mountains and swim oceans in order to make a difference.

    All we need to understand my friends, is that human life was given equally to us all, not partially but in totality.

    The sun was given to all. It does not shine on the few. So, just has nature is indifferent to our station or situation, we need to know that we are all equal. We need to focus on the things that are constant and not place our values on things that can be blown away with the next, great, wind.

    Value life in what ever house it dwells. For when it comes time that we are all stripped to bare bones before the divine and facing eternity, we will understand that the only law we were meant to follow, was to love ourselves and each other. Nothing more...nothing less."
    — Carla Jo Masterson


  • Diane Setterfield
    "All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story. "
    — Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)


  • Clarissa Pinkola Estés
    "Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. We let go of one phase, one aspect of love, and enter another. Passion dies and is brought back. Pain is chased away and surfaces another time. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship."
    — Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Women Who Run with the Wolves)


  • Plato
    "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
    — Plato


  • Marianne Williamson
    "In every community, there is work to be done.
    In every nation, there are wounds to heal.
    In every heart, there is the power to do it."
    — Marianne Williamson


  • Maya Angelou
    ""My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style" "
    — Maya Angelou


  • Apple Computer Inc.
    "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
    — Apple Computer Inc.


  • Paulo Coelho
    "When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way."
    — Paulo Coelho (Brida)


  • Mother Teresa
    "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
    — Mother Teresa


  • Randy Pausch
    "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
    — Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)


  • Maya Angelou
    "The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
    — Maya Angelou


  • Henri J.M. Nouwen
    "A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us."
    — Henri J.M. Nouwen


  • "When we truly love, it is never lost. It is only after death that the depth of the bond is truly felt, and our loved one becomes more a part of us than was possible in life."
    — Oriental tradition.


  • Oprah Winfrey
    "Step Away from the Mean Girls…
    …and say bye-bye to feeling bad about your looks.
    Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

    This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself. The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the story line that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step toward transforming your experience of the world."
    — Oprah Winfrey


  • Eckhart Tolle
    "Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment."
    — Eckhart Tolle


  • "I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in."
    — Steve Nash


  • ""I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in.""
    — Steve Nash


  • Robert M. Pirsig
    "To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."
    — Robert M. Pirsig


  • John Burroughs
    "One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’."
    — John Burroughs


  • "Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves,
    We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!"
    — Humbert Wolfe


  • "--
    Autumn -- Unlike fireworks which people also come to see,
    God’s gift of foliage, lasts longer and is free. "
    — ek


  • Bertrand Russell
    "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
    — Bertrand Russell


  • Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    "Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."
    — Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi


  • Maya Angelou
    "Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
    — Maya Angelou


  • "
    If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."
    — Thomas J. Watson


  • Osho
    "Be — don't try to become"
    — Osho


  • Dalai Lama XIV
    "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
    — Dalai Lama XIV


  • Frederick Douglass
    "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
    — Frederick Douglass


  • "We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
    "
    — David Weatherford



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