“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable,you disconnect yourself from what you truly want,and all that is left is compromise.”
— Robert Fritz
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
— Steve Jobs
“In matters of style, swim with the current;in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
– attributed to Thomas Jefferson
“The Meaning of a Thing is Not Measured by its Size.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“God has no other hands than ours.”
— Dorothee Solle
“One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.”
— Ann Radcliffe
“Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them… he cried, ‘Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?’… God said, ‘I did do something. I made you.'”
— Sufi Teaching
“To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it — this is a hard lesson.”
— Bruce Catton
“Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.”
— Joseph Campbell
“I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.”
— William Faulkner
“When you choose to understand [and] exercise control over the functions and attributes of your own mind, you will be empowered to create your own reality, to be completely self-reliant and totally prosperous.”
— The Delfin Knowledge System
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
— Charles Dickens
“Love in action is service.”
-— Ken Essien
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Unknown
“Our circumstances define the playing field, not the outcome.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
— Josh Billings
“Customs form us all.Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs,are consequences of our place of birth.”
— Aaron Hill
“Yet within these quite extreme constraints, progress, success, and happiness are still possible.You play the hand you’re dealt.I think the game’s worthwhile.”
— Christopher Reeve
“All men and women are born, live, suffer and die;what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams,whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things,and what we do to make them come about.We do not choose to be born.We do not choose our parents.We do not choose our historical epoch,the country of our birth,or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing.We do not, most of us, choose to die;nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death.But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.”
— Joseph Epstein
“We all have free will, but only within the harsh constraints of predestination.Within the limits placed upon our lives by the circumstances of our genes,our place and condition of birth, the parenting we receive,and other events beyond our control,we are defined by the free will we can still exercise.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Imagination creates reality.”
— Richard Wagner
“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”
-— Alice Walker
“Become very, very sweet. Remove even the slightest trace of anger. Whatever you think, whatever you say, consider carefully all the consequences beforehand. By performing actions knowing their consequences, success is definitely experienced.”
— Unknown
“As we arise each morning,let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.”
— Unknown