Inspirational Quotes"We find ourselves busy, constantly reacting, caught up in desires and seeking, constantly moving, collecting, gathering, and it all seems so necessary to do. The things that fill our days and our lives, yet where are we really going? What’s really important to us?” Jack Kornfield, Author, Buddhist Teacher "My earliest memories of my father are of seeing him work at his desk and realizing that he was happy. I did not know it then, but that was one of the most precious gifts a father can give his child.” Malcolm Gladwell, Author, Outliers "Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go." Dalai Lama "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these." George Washington Carver “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” Steve Jobs "What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. And, I truly believe, that the reason I’ve been able to be so financially successful is because my focus has never, ever for one minute been money." Oprah Winfrey "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." Aristotle “If we don’t change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.” Ruben Snake, Great Native American Medicine Man "If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity." Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, The Art of Happiness at Work
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. ~Harold Coffin "What you pay attention to, you bring unto you" Karen Parsons,Excellence Coach/Author/Speaker Rock bottom is good solid ground and a dead end street is just a place to turn around. Author Unknown
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead,Anthropologist/Philosopher “The reason we don’t want to judge someone is because it invites the least evolved part of them to play with the least evolved part of us, and it is just never pretty.” Caroline Casey,Visionary/Activist/Astrologer “Expectation is the partner of disappointment.” Caroline Casey, Visionary/Activist/Astrologer “Suffering is pain without hope.” Author Unknown “You get what you settle for.” Author Unknown "If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything." Doug Floyd
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." Dr. Seuss
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength.” Corrie Ten Boom, Author (April 15, 1892 – April 15, 1983) was a Dutch, Christian Holocaust survivor who helped many Jews escape the Nazis during World War II
“Religion is for those who don’t want to go to hell. Spirituality is for those who have already been there.” Author unknown
“The essential task is to allow all sides of an issue, or pairs of opposites, to exist in equal dignity and worth until their hidden unity is revealed. This is our initiation into the embodiment of wisdom, the entry point into authentic spiritual maturation and personal transformation.” Angeles Arrien, Shift Magazine edition #19 pg 30 excerpted and adapted from The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom (Sounds True, 2005)
“It takes a great force of will to change the momentum of your life.” Karen Parsons
“I tried to teach my child with books, he gave me only puzzled looks. I tried to teach my child with words they passed him by unheard. In despair I turned aside, ‘How will I teach my child’ I cried. Into my hand he put the key, 'Come' he said, 'and play with me'.” Author unknown
“I will not hurt, harm or injure in thought, word or deed.” Ahimsa, the Sanskrit word for non-violence from the Vedic Religion as practiced by Gandhi
"Dare to be Different!" Author unknown
"Dare to be Heard!" Author unknown
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