“Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.”
— Anthony de Mello
“Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security…. You’ll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it’s got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn’t stand for that BS if I were you.”
— Stuart Wilde
“We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with pure, unconditioned awareness.”
— Eknath Easwaran
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.”
—- Walt Whitman
“The word ‘question’ is derived from the Latin ‘quarrier’ (to seek) which is also the root of ‘quest.’ A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.”
— Source Unknown
“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.”
— Susanne K. Langer
“You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions.”
— Richard Bach
“I am a child of God. I came from the womb of creation.”
— Tao Te Ching
“Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Embrace fully your capacity to create, to think in unlimited ways, and to pursue everything that you have been wanting. Be flexible, open and willing to let the new come to you. “This can be the most joyous, prosperous, and creative time of your life.”
— Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
“Clear any imbalances you have with others, so you can share your spiritual heart. If you cannot share your spiritual heart because someone owes you $100, forget the debt. It is not worth it.”
— John-Roger
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
— Winston Churchill
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.”
— Lou Holtz
“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”
–Abigail Van Buren
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
–George Bernard Shaw
The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
–Joan Didion