QUOTES

Feel free to share quotes that inspire you, here are some of my favorites:

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Constructively turning all bits of coal to diamonds. I prefer a sparkly life!  – M. Lipko

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If things are not showing up in your life the way you want them to, you are holding something in your energy that is directing it that way. – Dee Wallace

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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.  – Movie Strictly Ballroom

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I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

- Dalai Lama

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Emotions are natural like the passing weather.

There’s never nothing going on.
There are no ordinary moments.

There is no better.  You will never be better.  Same way you will never be less than.

All you need to do is be conscious of your choices.

A warrior does not give up what he loves he finds the love in what he does.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory…He’s about absolute vulnerability.

The accident is your training.  Life is choice, you can choose to be a victim or anything else you’d like to be.

A warrior acts only the fool reacts.

You don’t surrender your dream, you surrender control.

Paradox – Life is a mystery don’t waste time trying to fig it out.
Humor – Keep a sense of humor especially about yourself…
Change – Nothing stays the same.

The journey not the destination.

Make every move about the move not about the gold or about what your dad thinks but about that one moment in time.

Where are you?
HERE.

What time is it?
NOW.

What are you?
THIS MOMENT.

- Dan Millman (The Way of The Peaceful Warrior)

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The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings’ greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play and best describe what it is to be human.

- Jacques d’Amboise, Founder National Dance Institute (Since 1976 NDI has impacted the lives of over 2 million NYC school children – http://www.nationaldance.org)

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A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.

- Bhagavad Gita

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To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders.  It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas… – Richard Branson, Innovator, Adventurer, & CEO of Virgin

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What’s in there?

Only what you take with you. – Yoda to Luke

Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. – Yoda

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In dreams, as in love, all is possible. – Janos Arany

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I’m not very much with allegories or with gurus or with ways to do it or how to.  If you like to do it do it more, if you don’t like it stop it. Change. There isn’t anything more than that.  I am Gino Hollander. I am 81 years old. I  am a painter. – Gino Hollander (in the movie "The Mountain")

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Our minds are no less inventive…our capacity remains… – President Obama (Inauguration)

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Is the ability to surrender, to give yourself, whether in reverie or revelry.  And the journey of the artist is surely the journey away from self-consciousness.  – Bono (NY Times March 1, 2009; U2’s 30 years of making music)

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Talk about a dream come true: no stars, a studio that collapsed after filming – the movie almost didn’t make it into theaters – yet now, after its best-picture win at the Golden Globes, Slumdog Millionaire may just be poised to take home the biggest prize of all come Oscar night. – Krista Smith (Vanity Fair March 2009)

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The first thing we have to do is come back to ourselves. We have to recognize that we have to take care of ourselves first. It’s just like on an airplane when you have to put the oxygen mask on yourself first before you put it on your child. We have to take care of ourselves before we can take care of other people. – Thich Nhat Hanh

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All life…lived as play. – Plato

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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. – H. W. Mabie

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When your eyes are tired the world is tired also.
…anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive is too small for you.   – David Whyte

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer…that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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A hesitation mind and a determination heart are perfect strangers to each other.  – Unknown

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Dream Dream Dream!  You will never have time to suffer from despair.  – Sri Chinmoy

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. - Madonna Ciccone

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There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - Dalai Lama

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Know that you have a center.

Know that you belong there.

Know that the path to the center takes no effort. – Deepak Chopra

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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. - Greg Anderson

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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

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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. – From A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson.

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Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves. – Nelson Mandela (from his 1994 Inauguration)

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The ancestor of every action is a thought. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. Even if my philosophy does not extend to discovering anything new, it does nevertheless possess the courage to regard as questionable what has long been thought true.  -Georg C. Lichtenberg

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We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.  – T.S. Eliot

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. – Mark Twain

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When you set out for Ithaka

Ask that your way be long,

Full of adventure… – C.P. Cavafy (for fun find the entire poem)

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There are two ways to live your life.  One as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

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If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.  In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few…That is the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. – Shunryu Suzuki

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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – William Shedd

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Hulda Crooks, a 91 year old mountaineer from California, reached the top of Mount Fuji in Japan at dawn today after a difficult three-day climb…as a pink sun rose over the horizon…"It’s wonderful," she said. (from Gold Nuggets Readings For Experiential Education)

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Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet.
Let it not be a death but completeness.
Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.
Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest.
Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night.
Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence.
I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way. - Rabindranath Tagore

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If a design doesn’t feel good in your heart, what the mind thinks doesn’t matter. – April Greiman

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…joy and rapture serve as the foundations for faith, energy, mindfulness, and concentration.  They make successful introspection and relationship possible.  They may not directly promote wisdom, but they create a climate of mind in which wisdom can flourish.  They are not cultivated as an end in themselves but as the means of maintaining an environment that is supportive of investigation and freedom. – Mark Epstein, Going on Being.

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See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…we need silence to be able to touch souls. - Mother Teresa

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Oliver

 

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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The world would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. – Henry David Thoreau

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We take chances, risk great odds, love, laugh, dance…in short, we play.  – Holbrook Jackson

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There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried, it is there. – Peace Pilgrim

"Mildred Norman also known as "Peace Pilgrim," from 1953 until 1981, she walked more than 25,000 miles across the United States , bearing the simplest of messages: this is the way of peace – overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.’"

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Give – what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don’t give it away? Of having stories if I don’t tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don’t share it? I don’t intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine. – Isabel Allende (From This I Believe)

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Really growing up, becoming truly yourself – this takes openness and receptivity, inspiration, a loving heart, stability and persistence, trust in the world and in yourself. – Norman Fischer

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Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect… – E.M. Forster

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To love and be loved

is feeling the sun from both sides. – Viscott

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Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. - William J. Cameron

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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and best of a life are devoted to earning that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end. – Albert Camus

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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? – Henry David Thoreau

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The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half submerged balls.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.

I want to be with people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row and pass the bags along,
who stand in the line and haul in their places,
who are not parlor generals and field deserters
but move in a common rhythm
when the food must come in or the fire be put out.

The work of the world is common as mud.
Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust.
But the thing worth doing well done
has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Greek amphoras for wine or oil,
Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums
but you know they were made to be used.
The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.

To Be Of Use – Marge Piercy

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I control the way I see and look at things. Every look yields a different way to see it. I allow my self to see things in more than one way.  Determined that the thing shall be done, and then we shall find the way. – Abraham Lincoln

 

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