G. Walker > G.'s Quotes

“Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.”
― Robert Schuller

“The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.”
― Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy

“Every day, every moment, is another step on the journey.”
― G. David Walker

“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"

“Sometimes I write just to find out what happens next.”
― G. David Walker

“If you're always living down to others' expectations of you, you'll never know how high you can fly or how brightly you can shine.”
― G. David Walker

“The choices we make today are the seeds of our tomorrows.”
― G. David Walker

“If we judge our own actions by comparing them to someone else's actions, then we're living our lives by their standards instead of our own.”
― G. David Walker

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If you've already decided you can't, then you probably won't. Change your mind, change your life.”
― G. David Walker