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Quotable Quotes
As an avid reader, I am always picking up quotes from favourite authors. Here are a few which struck me as significant roadSIGNS:
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Wayne Dyer
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws at you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the bastard TIME. The end of life is now not so terribly far away - you can see it the way you see the finish line when you come into the stretch - and your mind says, "Have I worked enough? Have I eaten enough? Have I loved enough?" All of these of course, are the foundation of man's greatest curse, and perhaps his greatest glory. "What has my life meant so far, and what can it mean in the time left to me?" And now we're coming to the wicked poisoned dart: "What have I contributed to the Great Ledger? What am I worth?" - John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday
It has never been, and never will be, easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to travel than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. - Marian Zimmer Bradley
Courage…is the will to make change that starts the process; it is the will that invests fire into our passion, fanning the flames in our soul, so that we become instruments of change. - Lance Secretan, Inspire!
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin
It takes courage to embrace the idea that what you make of your life is up to you and to actually do what you need to do. - Cherie Carter Scott, If Life is a Game, These are the Rules
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie
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. - Harold Whitman
Self care is never a selfish act; it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift that I was put on earth to offer others. - Parker Palmer, Let your Life Speak
Like the elephant, we are unconscious of our own strength. When it comes to understanding the power we have to make a difference in our own lives, we might as well be asleep. If you want to make your dreams come true, wake up. Wake up to your own strength. Wake up to the role you play in your own destiny. Wake up to the power you have to choose what you think, do, and say." - Keith Ellis, Bootstraps
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts. - Marianne Williamson.
Grace comes when you understand that the universe always creates circumstances that lead every person to his or her own true path and that everything happens for a reason as part of a divine plan. - Julia Cameron Heart Steps
There is a difference between zestful work toward a cherished goal and workaholism. The difference lies less in the hours than it does in the emotional quality of the hours spent - Julia Cameron.
I shall pass this way but once. Any good that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. - Mahatma Gandhi
If there is to be any peace (of mind), it will come through being, not having. - Henry Miller
"Seasons" is a wise metaphor for the movement of life, I think. It suggests that life is neither a battlefield nor a game of chance, but something infinitely richer, more promising, more real. The notion that our lives are like the eternal cycle of the seasons does not deny the struggle or the joy, the loss or the gain, the darkness or the light, but encourages us to embrace it all - and to find in all of it the opportunities for growth. - Parker Palmer, There is a Season
The spiritual purpose of life is to learn to give and to receive love. - Harold Kemp
Instead of showing ourselves as we truly are, we show ourselves as we believe others want us to be. We wear masks, and with practice we do it better and better, and the masks serve us well - except that it gets very lonely inside the mask, because inside the mask that each of us wears, there is a person who both longs to be known, yet fears to be known. - Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark
Your vision will become clear when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Gustav Jung
"And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind.
"Caring and seeing with the heart", answered the soul. - Unknown
Last Updated (Tuesday, 09 March 2010 20:54)
