“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we
believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
— e. e. cummings
“In school you get the lesson and then take the test… In life you take the test and then get the lesson.”
— Unknown Source
“The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one’s life.”
— Dalai Lama
“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
-– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I give others my full permission to be, feel and become what they choose.”
— William DeFoore
“Everything in life can be nourishing. Everything can bless us, but we’ve got to be there for the blessing to occur. Being present with quality is a decision we are
invited to make each day.”
— MacRina Wiederkehr
“We live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is
waiting in every crumb. Life wants to lead you from crumbs to angels, but this can happen only if you are willing to unwrap the ordinary by staying with it long enough
to harvest its treasure.”
— Macrina Wiederkehr
“Today, instead of focusing on the challenge in front of you… choose to look for the opportunity. Ask yourself what this circumstance is teaching you. Identify how
you can grow stronger and wiser from it. You can live in fear or move forward with faith and positive actions.”
— Jon Gordon
“It always seems impossible until its done.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Act as if it were impossible to fail.”
— Dorthea Brande
“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.”
— Robert H. Schuller
“Stand often in the company of dreamers.They believe you can achieve impossible things.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher