“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”
-— Lucy Larcom
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
— Cynthia Ozick
“…conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don’t learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.”
— Ronald Heifetz
“Homogeneity makes for healthy milk but anemic friendships. We need relationships that cross culturally imposed lines to enlarge our hearts and expand our vistas.”
— Dan Schmidt
“The things that really work for you in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA) are: love and Light. And as you move more and more into the place that is loving and expresses the Light, you find it easier and easier to know God. And that’s what MSIA is all about, knowing God.”
— John-Roger
“We all have within us the potential for greatness or for failure. Both possibilities are an innate part of our character. Whether we reach for the stars or plunge to the depths of despair depends in large measure on how we manage our positive and negative potential. It is doubtful that, if left unchecked, your virtues will rage out of control. Unfortunately, the reverse is not true about your faults. Left unattended, faults have a way of multiplying until they eventually choke out your good qualities. The surest way to control your faults is to attack them the moment they appear.”
— Napoleon Hill
“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach