“Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.”
-— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
“If you do nothing, you are apt to be caught up in the negativity that is present on the planet, thereby losing your connection with Spirit. You must maintain your connection actively, because Spirit and Soul and God are all active. The process of Spirit is active; you must be active in order to participate in that.”
— John-Roger
“Life is how we make it, not how we take it”
— Unknown
“You always have a choice between building and destroying. It is not necessary to destroy something in order to change it – destructive actions often cause pain, or damage.
Building gives hope; it enlightens; it strengthens. So always choose to build rather than destroy.”
— Unknown
“Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one’s true self, embracing the whole of one’s experience – good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By treating it as supremely important. By reaching for the best within ourselves. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“I’d gone through life believing in the strength and competence of others; never in my own. Now, dazzled, I discovered that my capacities were real. It was like finding a fortune in the lining of an old coat.”
— Joan Mills
“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”
— Orison Swett Marden