Favorite Quotes

"When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they 'deserve' it, the good and the beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention." -Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an Ordinary Day

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive–to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." –Marcus Aurelius

"The question is not 'Who is going to let me?'
The question is 'Who is going to stop me?' –Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged"

"Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame that cannot be painted." -Benjamin Franklin

"You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve." -Pablo Picasso

"The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance." -Victor Frankl

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible." -Arthur C. Clarke

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." -Victor Frankl

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength." -Victor Frankl

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be." -
Anne Frank

"Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keendesire and a definite resolution to do." -Edgar F. Roberts

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." -Plutarch

"Most anyone can stand adversity, but to test a man's character give him power." -Abraham Lincoln

"For broken dreams the cure is ... dream again, and deeper." -C.S. Lewis

"There is no recipe for living that suits all cases." -Carl Jung

"I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." -Thomas Jefferson

"And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief..." -Khalil Gibran

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me." -Tracee Ellis Ross

"Behind me is infinite power. Before me is endless possibility. Around me is boundless opportunity. Why should I fear?" -Stella Stuart

"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. They will tell you no, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. And you will tell them yes." -Nike magazine ad

"We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world." -Jack Gilbert

"There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope." -Bern Williams

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist." -Robert Schumann

"The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new." -Socrates

"Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?" –Rumi

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." –Rumi

"What you seek is seeking you." –Rumi

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
 and rightdoing there is a field.
 I'll meet you there." -Rumi

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." -Rumi

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter." -Rumi

"Do you know what you are?
 You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
 You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
 This universe is not outside of you.
 Look inside yourself;
 everything that you want,
 you are already that." -Rumi

"And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky." -Rumi

"Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows." -Rumi

"The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth." -Rumi

"Shine like the whole universe is yours." -Rumi

"Love is the bridge between you and everything." -Rumi

"The universe and the light of the stars come through me." -Rumi

"At the end of my life, with just one breath left,
 if you come, I’ll sit up and sing." -Rumi

"You are 'there', I 'here'. Worlds separate us,
 Death's angels, the void of space ...
Yet I say your name, and waves of Light
 wash to me silently from your Heart." -Rumi

"If in hell I could hold one curl of your hair
, I'd think the saints of heaven in torment." -Rumi

"The soul has been given its own ears
 To hear things that the mind does not understand." -Rumi