Deep Thoughts

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in a year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to our load, before we are required to bear it.

— John Newton

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

— Thoreau

Enlightenment is the continuous realization that life experience is a mirror of our beliefs.

— author unknown

Life has pain; suffering is optional.

— author unknown

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying "I will not forgive". Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I’m just moving clouds today; tomorrow I’ll move mountains.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

— Henry David Thoreau

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

— Howard Newton

Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them than upon what they make us see in ourselves.

— Sarah Grand

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

— Max Ehrmann

Life is nothing if not a daring adventure!

— Hellen Keller

I am not afraid of storms...for I am learning to sail my ship.

— Louisa May Alcott

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

— African Proverb

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

— Will Rogers

Even a Rolls Royce can get a flat tire

— Papa Dee Allen

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

— Victor Borge

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

— Ethel Barrymore

You cannot always control what goes on outside.
But you can always control what goes on inside.

— Wayne Dyer

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

— Barbara Kingsolver

We must remove the word 'impossible' from our vocabulary.

— Bernie S. Siegel

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality;
and then there are those who turn one into the other.

— Douglas Everett

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

— William Jennings Bryan

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

— James Broughton

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

— Booker T. Washington

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

— Norman MacEswen

Be the source, in the lives of others, of that which you would have in your own life.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve...procrastination has robbed us of too many opportunities.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.

— author unknown

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

— George MacDonald

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule.

— Siddhartha Guatama Buddha

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

— H. Jackson Browne

Trust that still, small voice that says, 'This might work and I'll try it.'

— Diane Mariechild

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

— Kahlil Gibran

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

— Mark Twain

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

— e. e. cummings

Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.

— Joseph Campbell

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

— Jim Rohn

Safety is the most unsafe spiritual path you can take. Safety keeps you numb and dead. People are caught by surprise when it is time to die. They have allowed themselves to live so little.

— Stephen Levine

Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

— Chinese Proverb

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

— Alvin Toffler

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

— Nelson Mandela

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
You may have to work for it, however.

— Richard Bach