"... I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything"
— Jonathan Safran Foer

"...I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments."
— Nick Hornby (High Fidelity)

"I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Today I married myself and I became my own wife."
— Johnette Napolitano, Concrete Blonde

"This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait."
— Natalie Goldberg

"Names come and names go."
— Neil Gaiman (American Gods)

"A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows."
— Sydney J. Harris

"Through the reciprocation of energy, always, and every time, we will get exactly what we put out there to others. Like Karma, whatever we do will indefinitely come back to us in some way shape or form.
When goodness is given, it is likely to returned.
When you support someone, you will be supported.
When you Love, you will be Loved.
If you give someone your last dollar, someone will help you equally.
This is the law of the universe. What selfless characteristics do you portray to benefit your reality? Expand."
— Will Barnes (The Expansion of The Soul)

""But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.""
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

"Trust is the foundation of all relationships."
— Reed Critchfield

"It may actually be more healthy to be disturbed, confused, or searching than confident, certain, and secure."
— Mark Scandrette (Soul Graffiti: Making a Life in the Way of Jesus)

""If a women objects to being walked on, she shouldn't imitate a rug.""
— Linda G. Paulsen

"People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle."
— Gordon MacDonald (Ordering Your Private World)

"We should not allow our personal values to erode, even if others think we are peculiar."
— James E. Faust

"There's no gift better than a story."
— Ariel Dingus

"Centered, open, and diverse, the universes correspondence to your hopes and dreams is the deliverance of your foremost thoughts and actions. Energetically you can create and destroy your immediate set of circumstances under the same laws. Posed as friends and foes, you will have obstacles, ones in which you must go through, over, under and aside sometimes to overcome. These are the stepping stones to your future reality. Overcome that which has weakened your state of mind and conquer the thoughts and actions that you have let lead your life."
— Will Barnes (The Expansion of The Soul)

"Every excuse I ever heard made perfect sense to the person who made it. "
— Dr. Daniel T. Drubin

"The circumstance of the mind is equivalent to the circumstance of your reality and a pure sign of the justification of the universe. Positive energy equals a positive well being and the manifestation of positive things thereof.
Do you have the wherewithal to be positive? Do you hold the key to your destiny or the barrier to your dismay? Insightful are those with an open ear and an open heart to these principles. Are you on the right track? Whether you say yes or no to this question, your reality is a direct reflection."
— Will Barnes (The Expansion of The Soul)

"Integrity is the sound follow through of your heart, and an important part in the process of manifesting what it is that you aspire to. If you say that you are going to do something, do it. If you fail to complete the task at hand, or fulfill a promise you made, you are not operating at the right frequency. Don't lie to yourself and to others, follow through. Complete yourself, Expand your consciousness."
— Will Barnes (The Expansion of The Soul)

"I want to still have desire when I'm eighty...even if it's unrequited and wrinkly."
— Ariel Dingus

"Often, people build stories in their mind which have no basis in the contours of reality. Those which build these images, are building such images which are based on their relatively limited sense of understanding about the particular subject or person. This is a "fill in the blank" reality, which often manifests itself into the hearts and the minds of those who have a "fill in the blank" mindset, not the person with the here said reality.
The universe is designed in a way that reflects itself, just like a mirror, showing you exactly who you are to yourself, not who others are. Your largest and most concealed insecurities have their way of presenting themselves to you in a fashion that is relative to your self designed way of communication.
This short writing is a reminder that your preconceived notions on a particular subject or person, are a construct of your inner mind and emotional-relational well being and not of others. This is one of the largest fundamental truths in which you must have large insight to carefully watch who and what you massacre with your personal thoughts.
Having a keen sense of control on this subject will lead you to enlightenment in many platforms of life."
— Will Barnes (The Expansion of The Soul)

"Mastery of self is the endless battle in which we must pursue our consciousness straight forward, and head over heels transmute all our focus on what it is ailing our immediate reality. Question yourself without pride and ego, step out of your shoes and look from the outside it. What do you see? What do you hear? This is the reflection our your energy, your absolute control source. Does it benefit you?"
— Will Barnes (The Expansion of The Soul)

"In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by the thoughts and emotions that which you harbor. Expand."
— Will Barnes (The Expansion of The Soul)

"When your heart burns with passion, and your faith is at it's peak, it is then when you have your life by the horns, and now when the preconceived desires in your dreams materialize. Believe beyond your minds eye and see the light, the energy that will fill your half full cup to the brim, and overflow with joyous life experiences. Think it, see it, and live it. Expand...."
— Will Barnes (The Expansion of The Soul)

"When you combine desire and faith to that it is in which you aspire to, you send an proactive force into the universe that creates a wave of energy, thus activating energy particles which then begin the manifestation process, kind of like a magnet to iron.
The bigger the desire equaled with faith, the higher likeliness of materializing what it is you strive for.
Stop living a life in which you are not in control of and join forces with the universe in which we are all a part of. Expand your consciousness and be grateful for every instance in the physical plane, it is what you must decide if you want to live the life that you want."
— Will Barnes (The Expansion of The Soul)

"When the world turns and and we operate at our own personal vibration, it is in our power to withhold our dignity and integrity at the highest possible frequency, with this as an active force, we can command our reality in the physical realm. Justly, we shall take all the opportunity that manifests itself in arms reach. To be one, and to have and do what we dream is concurrent only on a high wavelength, and operative to those who seek a higher sense of self. Are you ready to expand to these levels of operation? Have you taken the steps? Step forward and release all your fears."
— Will Barnes (The Expansion of The Soul)

"A great life starts within"
— Malka Maxwell (how To Get Ahead With Resumes(revised0)

"It is, I think, the rarest of leisure, hard work mixed with hard pleasure, to refine one's time of deep thought or light regard into the utterly self-absorbed and equally and abundantly outward-seeking shape of the personal essay -- a story comprised of found fact, of analyzed emotion, of fictive memory."
— Barry Lopez (About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory)

"Live with Fulfillment, Serve with Passion so in this Lifetime you will have the ablility to Die with NO Regrets."
— Randy Gonzales

"The greatest of warriors can fight on behalf of the most banal of countries; the most masterful of poets can have the plainest woman as their muse."
— Barry Wolfenden

""People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.""
— Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich)

"Things could be worse; so let's count our blessings."
— Marie Scheiter

"This quote was written by the Forth Teacher "Samuel"

"You are responsible for everything that you give out to others in your Earth Life that is Negative. If personal responsibility were taught at a Young Age maybe Souls would think twice before they act. The Greatest Reward you can ever receive is when you have cleared your slate for Good."
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— Samuel

"How much is the giftcard worth?"
— Courtni me

"God is not religion."
— Alton Hayes