“Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.”
— Helen Douglas
“Too often we underestimate how quickly our feelings are going to change because we underestimate our ability to change them.”
— David Gilbert
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”
— Alan Keightley
“To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.”
— Samuel Butler
“Become a master of savoring the good in yourself, in those you love, and in your life. Savoring is a matter of paying deep and long attention to the subtle nuances of each good thing in your life.”
— William DeFoore
“You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.”
-– Guy Finley
“Beware of false knowledge;it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -it is the illusion of knowledge.”
— Daniel J. Boorstin
“When you have a very strong FEELING that something is true, often it isn’t.WANTING something to be true doesn’t make it true.Likewise, being AFRAID that something is true doesn’t make it true either.Truth is not defined by how many people believe something.Ask. Question. Think.Decide – for yourself.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.”
— Jessamyn West
“The best way to spread the Light is to live the Light and be the Light in all your actions and expressions. Talking about the Light can sometimes be the poorest way to communicate, since words can so often be misrepresentations of the truth and be misinterpreted by the listener.”
— John-Roger
“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside of the frame.”
— Author Unknown
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
— Abraham H. Maslow
“Don’t compromise yourself.You are all you’ve got.”
— Janis Joplin
“It all depends on how we look at things,and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”
— Carl Jung