"No one heals himself by wounding another." ~ St. Ambrose
"You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” ~ Adlin Sinclair
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." ~ Anaïs Nin
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~E.L. Doctorow
"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket." ~ Charles Peguy
"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." ~ Toni Morrison
"Grant yourself a moment of peace, and you will understand how foolishly you have scurried about. Learn to be silent, and you will notice that you have talked too much. Be kind, and you will realize that your judgement of others was too severe. Hasten slowly, and you will soon arrive." ~ Chinese Proverb
"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on."
~ Oprah Winfrey
"Give sorrow words..." ~ William Shakespeare
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race” ~ Calvin Coolidge
"If you ask me what I came to do...I...will answer, I am here to Live Out Loud." ~ Emile Zola
"Your thorns are the best part of you." ~ Marianne Moore {Selected Poems, 1935}
"A song will outlive all sermons in the memory." ~ Henry Giles
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness." ~ Albert Einstein
"When you focus your thoughts on something you want, and you hold that focus, you are in that moment summoning what you want with the mightiest power in the Universe." ~ Rhonda Byrne {Author of The Secret}
"Treasure the shadow...There are no shadows save from substance cast." ~ Edith M. Thomas
"There is no use trying." said Alice; 'one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for a half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." ~ Lewis Carroll
"Using yourself as a guide and not needing the approval of an outside force is the most religious experience you can have. It is a veritable religion of the self in which an individual determines his own behavior based upon his own conscience and the laws of his culture that work for him, rather than because someone has directed how he should behave."
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Anything can be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness."
~ Ayn Rand
"Intention orchestrates infinite possibilities. You might wonder what kind of intent is ideal. What would you ask if your intention could be fulfilled right now?"
~ Deepak Chopra
"Dwelling on the past is perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to Spirit. The more we focus on or even glamorize what happened to us yesterday, especially how unfair or unpleasant it was, the more we guarantee that we'll miss the subtle Divine Guidance being relayed to us at the moment."
~ Sonia Choquette
"In every stressful situation, in every neurotic symptom, in every misdeed, there are elements of good."
~ David K. Reynolds
"Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant."
~ Robin Sharma
"We build emotional, mental and spiritual capacity in precisely the same way that we build physical capacity."
~ Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
"Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear."
~ Seneca
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place." ~ Emily Dickinson
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery, The revery alone will do, If bees are few." ~ Emily Dickinson
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson
"She dealt her pretty words like Blades -
How glittering they shone -
And every one unbarred a Nerve
Or wantoned with a Bone."
~ Emily Dickinson
"Every second that you live you are never going to get back. You are never going to get to change what you said, didn’t say, did or didn’t do. Live how you want to live. Act how you want to be remembered because you never know how long or short you are going to be here." ~ Emily Doberstein
"Of all the hues, reds have the most potency. If there is one electric blue, a dozen reds are so charged. Use them to punctuate white, burn into bronzes, or dynamite black." ~ Jack Lenor Larsen
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about the situation."
~ Eckhart Tolle
"You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” ~ Adlin Sinclair
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." ~ Anaïs Nin
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." ~E.L. Doctorow
"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket." ~ Charles Peguy
"If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." ~ Toni Morrison
"Grant yourself a moment of peace, and you will understand how foolishly you have scurried about. Learn to be silent, and you will notice that you have talked too much. Be kind, and you will realize that your judgement of others was too severe. Hasten slowly, and you will soon arrive." ~ Chinese Proverb
"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on."
~ Oprah Winfrey
"Give sorrow words..." ~ William Shakespeare
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race” ~ Calvin Coolidge
"If you ask me what I came to do...I...will answer, I am here to Live Out Loud." ~ Emile Zola
"Your thorns are the best part of you." ~ Marianne Moore {Selected Poems, 1935}
"A song will outlive all sermons in the memory." ~ Henry Giles
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness." ~ Albert Einstein
"When you focus your thoughts on something you want, and you hold that focus, you are in that moment summoning what you want with the mightiest power in the Universe." ~ Rhonda Byrne {Author of The Secret}
"Treasure the shadow...There are no shadows save from substance cast." ~ Edith M. Thomas
"There is no use trying." said Alice; 'one can't believe impossible things." "I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for a half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." ~ Lewis Carroll
"Using yourself as a guide and not needing the approval of an outside force is the most religious experience you can have. It is a veritable religion of the self in which an individual determines his own behavior based upon his own conscience and the laws of his culture that work for him, rather than because someone has directed how he should behave."
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Anything can be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven, but not those who lack the courage of their own greatness."
~ Ayn Rand
"Intention orchestrates infinite possibilities. You might wonder what kind of intent is ideal. What would you ask if your intention could be fulfilled right now?"
~ Deepak Chopra
"Dwelling on the past is perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to Spirit. The more we focus on or even glamorize what happened to us yesterday, especially how unfair or unpleasant it was, the more we guarantee that we'll miss the subtle Divine Guidance being relayed to us at the moment."
~ Sonia Choquette
"In every stressful situation, in every neurotic symptom, in every misdeed, there are elements of good."
~ David K. Reynolds
"Weak minds lead to weak actions. A strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate though daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions. Work hard to remove all inner turbulence. The rewards will be abundant."
~ Robin Sharma
"We build emotional, mental and spiritual capacity in precisely the same way that we build physical capacity."
~ Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
"Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear."
~ Seneca
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place." ~ Emily Dickinson
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery, The revery alone will do, If bees are few." ~ Emily Dickinson
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~Emily Dickinson
"She dealt her pretty words like Blades -
How glittering they shone -
And every one unbarred a Nerve
Or wantoned with a Bone."
~ Emily Dickinson
"Every second that you live you are never going to get back. You are never going to get to change what you said, didn’t say, did or didn’t do. Live how you want to live. Act how you want to be remembered because you never know how long or short you are going to be here." ~ Emily Doberstein
"Of all the hues, reds have the most potency. If there is one electric blue, a dozen reds are so charged. Use them to punctuate white, burn into bronzes, or dynamite black." ~ Jack Lenor Larsen
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about the situation."
~ Eckhart Tolle