“When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.” - Carter G. Woodson
“We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.” - Marshall Rosenberg
“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” - Marianne Williamson
“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” - Sally Kempton
“People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.” - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine.” - Mark Nepo
“Alas, the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.” - Thomas Carlyle
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” - Oscar Wilde
“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.” - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.” - Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.” - G. I. Gurdjieff
“What we do matters to us. Work may not be the most important thing in our lives or the only thing. We may work because we must, but we still want to love, to feel pride in, to respect ourselves for what we do and to make a difference.” - Sara Ann Friedman
“A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.” - Pema Chodron
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” - Hafiz of Persia
“The greatest single cause of a poor self image is the absence of unconditional love. ” - Zig Ziglar
“I made no resolutions for the new year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning, and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.”- Anais Nin
“A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.”- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.” - Erich Fromm
“My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.” - Oscar Wilde
“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” - Sonya Friedman
“Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.” - Frederick F. Flack
“Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.” - Robert Neelly Bellah
“You never find yourself until you face the truth.” - Pearl Bailey
“The universe is transformation.” - Louise Erdrich
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” - George Bernard Shaw
“The way you get to know yourself is by the expression on other people's faces.” - Gil Scott Heron
“Trust is built when no one is looking.” - Seth Godin
“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.” - William Ellery Channing
“Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.” - Marge Piercy
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” - M. Scott Peck
"It’s a new world, but I figure . . . you know . . . a good way to keep young is to keep new challenges going." – Robert Englund "There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with." – Harry Crews
“To understand is to perceive patterns” – Isaiah Berlin
“When I look at myself, I am so beautiful I scream with joy!” – Maria Montez
"The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage."- Thucydides
“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” - George Santayana "Little changes [and] little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” - Edith Wharton
“And Joy is Everywhere;
It is in the Earth's green covering of grass; In the blue serenity of the Sky; In the reckless exuberance of Spring; In the severe abstinence of gray Winter; In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame; In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright; In Living; In the exercise of all our powers; In the acquisition of Knowledge; In fighting evils ...
“When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails.”- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"Real beauty isn't about symmetry or weight or makeup; it's about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own." - Valerie Monroe
“Your children are your legacy to the world. As you raise them with love, you contribute to making this world a better place.” - Kristine Carlson
“Sometimes we forget when people are sick or hurt that what they most need is to feel connected, to be loved, to be touched.”- Dr. Lissa Rankin
"Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls." - Mother Teresa
"The Buddha taught that anyone who experiences the delight of being truly generous would never want to eat another meal without sharing it." - Martha Beck
"In this world, it is not what we take up, but what we give up that makes us rich." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu
"For it is in giving that we receive." - St. Francis of Assisi
"It is not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare."- James Russell Lowell
"When you practice gratefulness, there's a sense of respect toward others." - The Dalai Lama
"Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame, but greatness, because greatness is determined by service." - Martin Luther King Jr
"Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away." - Elbert Hubbard
"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and see his or her smile." - Elie Wiesel
"You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay with millions of thumbprints on it." - John Updike
"No woman can control her destiny, if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself." - Suze Orman
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill
"That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing." - Simone de Beauvoir
"If you get, give. If you learn, teach." - Maya Angelou
"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic—you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner." - Jerry Seinfeld
"The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away." - Deepak Chopra
"Be daring, be different, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers..." - Cecil Beaton
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes de Mille
"Here are the real rules: Don't run with scissors, don't leave the iron on, don't cross against the light, and don't be afraid of a broken heart." - Lise Funderburg
"The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit." - Jack Kornfield
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well have not lived at all." - J. K. Rowling
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” - Oprah Winfrey
"If you have the capacity to be more than one thing, do everything's that's inside of you." - Bishop T. D. Jakes
"Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself." - Jean Anouilh
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there". - Tony Robbins
"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dream of meeting your heart's longing." - Oriah
"In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world." - Deepak Chopra
"Holding on is believing that there's only a past; letting go is knowing that there's a future." - Daphne Rose Kingma
