Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

~ Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora"

C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C. S. Lewis

Joseph Campbell

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

~ Joseph Campbell

Alan Cohen

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen

Cree Indian Proverb

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. 

~ Cree Indian Proverb

Barbara Walters

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

~ Barbara Walters

Howard Thurman

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.

Howard Thurman

Bayard Rustin

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. 

~Bayard Rustin 

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Believe in the goodness of life.

Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew.

Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude.

Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies.

Believe in the laughter of children.

~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

~ Albert Einstein

Leo Tolstoy

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. 

~ Leo Tolstoy

Marcel Proust

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. 

~Marcel Proust

Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Epicurus

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” 

~ Epicurus

Billy Corgan

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there. 

 ~Billy Corgan

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lou Holtz

“You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.” 

~ Lou Holtz

Leo Rosten

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

~ Leo Rosten

Eleanor Roosevelt

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The Buddha

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.

~ The Buddha

Eckhart Tolle

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don't have a life. You are life.

~Eckhart Tolle

 

Louise L. Hay

As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the blue. 

~Louise L. Hay

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.” 

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Lolly Daskal

"When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.” 

~ Lolly Daskal

Grace Hopper

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,"We've always done it this way."

~ Grace Hopper

Eileen Caddy

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually.

~ Eileen Caddy

Hippocrates

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. 

~ Hippocrates

Srikumar Rao

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste. 

~ Srikumar Rao

Charles Kettering

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. 

~ Charles Kettering