“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”
— M. Scott Peck
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
— Audre Lorde
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”
— Harper Lee
“Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.”
— Theodor Adorno
“When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person’s uniquely “right” path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals,without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“If it’s true that you become what you think about most, it follows that the quantity and quality of success you achieve in your life will be in direct proportion to the size of your thoughts. If you allow your mind to be dominated by trivial matters, your achievements are likely to be unimportant. Discipline yourself to think about important things. Keep up with what’s new in your field and with what’s going on in the world. Make a list of good ideas that you can use anytime you are searching for a creative solution to a problem. Remember, small minds think about things; great minds think about ideas.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Wherever you are, you’re all the power of peace that is needed because it’s within you, and it’s present regardless of any circumstances or situations that you encounter. So you are being entrusted with this greater peace and the ability to take it into the world.”
— John Morton
“There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.”
— Napoleon Hill
“If you’re offered a seat on the rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“If you are an initiate, you can chant your own initiatory tone inwardly and tune to the power of that word which has been placed inside of you as the energy of God. Use that word to pull spiritual energy forward. Use it to heal yourself, use it to lift yourself. Use it to give you the strength to change. Use it to change those patterns inside of you that have held you down to the physical earth.”
— John-Roger
“It’s good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.”
— Orna Ross