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I am often inspired by the great writings of
those who have paused to ponder life. From a
short power phrase to a story written from the
heart, these words have the power to evoke
meaning, to remind us what is truly important,
or to even change the course of our lives. I have
included here some of the quotes that
reinforce, for me, the importance of living
vividly. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we
continue to live." ~
Adler
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
~African Proverb
"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
"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. " ~
Anderson
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." ~
Anaïs Nin:
'The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." ~
Antisthenes
"Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another." ~ Mary Catherine Bateson
'You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." ~ Yogi Berra
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." ~ Brinkley
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." Buddha
Adler
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
~African Proverb
"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
"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. " ~
Anderson
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." ~
Anaïs Nin:
'The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." ~
Antisthenes
"Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another." ~ Mary Catherine Bateson
'You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." ~ Yogi Berra
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." ~ Brinkley
"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." Buddha
"Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality" ~
Alexis Carrel
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. " ~
Rachel Carson
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~
Chinese Proverb
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." ~
Confucius
"If you must love your neighbour as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbour. " ~ Nicholas de Chamfort
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." ~
De Saint-Exupery
"We need to find the courage to say 'NO' to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity."~
Dr. Barbara DeAngelis
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves". ~
Thomas Alva Edison
" When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. "~
Walt Disney
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. " ~
Rachel Carson
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~
Chinese Proverb
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." ~
Confucius
"If you must love your neighbour as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbour. " ~ Nicholas de Chamfort
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." ~
De Saint-Exupery
"We need to find the courage to say 'NO' to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity."~
Dr. Barbara DeAngelis
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves". ~
Thomas Alva Edison
" When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. "~
Walt Disney
"The significant problems we face cannot be resolved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them." ~
Albert Einstein
"What lies behind us and what lies beneath us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
Anatole France
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~
Carl Jung
Albert Einstein
"What lies behind us and what lies beneath us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
Anatole France
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." ~
Carl Jung
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." ~
Immanuel Kant
"I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." ~
Helen Keller
"For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are."
"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept." ~
D H Lawrence
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." ~
Michelangelo
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn." ~
M. Scott Peck
" It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover ." ~
Jules H. Poincare
Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
~Karen Ravn
Immanuel Kant
"I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." ~
Helen Keller
"For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are."
"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept." ~
D H Lawrence
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." ~
Michelangelo
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn." ~
M. Scott Peck
" It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover ." ~
Jules H. Poincare
Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.
~Karen Ravn
"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." ~
Robert H. Schuller
"Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees." ~
E.F. Schumacher
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily." ~Thomas Szasz
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.' ~
The Talmud
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." ~
Thich Nhat Hanh
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self."
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."
"Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be." ~
Henry David Thoreau
Robert H. Schuller
"Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees." ~
E.F. Schumacher
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily." ~Thomas Szasz
Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.' ~
The Talmud
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." ~
Thich Nhat Hanh
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self."
"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn."
"Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be." ~
Henry David Thoreau
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and
do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
"There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls." ~
Thurman
"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong." ~
Bill Vaughan
"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?" ~
Marianne Williamson
"Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs." ~
Dan Zadra
"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself." ~
Oprah Winfrey
"There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls." ~
Thurman
"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong." ~
Bill Vaughan
"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?" ~
Marianne Williamson
"Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs." ~
Dan Zadra
"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself." ~
Oprah Winfrey
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