“We don’t always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail…We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.”
— Julia Cameron
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. …I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.”
— Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“Let me listen to me and not to them.”
— Gertrude Stein
“What you must dare is to be yourself.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
“When you talk to yourself in your mind, which self do you address? And how? Usually people do not talk to their divinity, but to the most superficial aspects of their everyday personality. And often it’s a stream of fears, complaints and a mindless repetition of old things. If we talked that way to another human being, we would have to apologise.Learning to talk properly to the self is a spiritual endeavour. Thoughts from the past and worries about the future do not create good conversation. Instead learn to talk to your mind as if it were a child. Talk to it with love. If you just force a child to sit down, he won’t. A good mother knows how to prompt her child into doing what she wants. Be a good mother to your mind, teach it good, positive thoughts so that when you tell it to sit quietly, it will.Love your mind. Stay happy.”
-– Unknown
“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”
— W. Clement Stone
“True forgiveness is when you can say ‘Thank you for that experience’.”
-— Oprah Winfrey
“Say yes to the quest. Be a quester and a curious questioner. This will keep you open and young at heart, always willing to learn and grow.”
— William DeFoore
“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Every day is important and valuable. Realise that each passing moment is the most important moment. Life is made up of millions of moments. The quality moments are those when the soul is focused, alert and in the present, yet very few moments are lived in this way and enjoyed to the full.Consider each moment in your day as the most important moment to be lived and experienced to the full. Realise that when you are mindful of every present moment you are able to express and experience the moment in pleasure and appreciation”
-– Unknown
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ”
— Gloria Steinem