“Recognize that part of being human is to make mistakes. If you judge and berate yourself, you are cooperating with the work of the negative forces. If you permit yourself the foibles of being a human being – errors, stupid choices, occasional emotional reactions and actions, thoughts that tempt you away from your spiritual heart – you will still be close to God.”
— John-Roger
“You got to look at things with the eye in your heart, not with the eye in your head.”
— Lame Deer, Medicine Man of the Oglala people
“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.”
— Hans Margolius
“The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, ‘Oh how useless and powerless I am.’ It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, ‘I can do it,’ without boasting or fretting.”
— Dalai Lama
“A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces; we become the powerful force ourselves.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
— J. K. Rowling
“Be stronger than your strongest excuse.”
— Inky Johnson
“Things may not always go the way I intend to. Let me be joyful anyway.”
— Unknown