Bells Hooks Quote on Freedom

"The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom." ~Bell Hooks

Eleanor Roosevelt Quote on Courage

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Julia Sorel Quote on Taking Chances

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." ~Julia Sorel, writer

Anna Jameson Quote on Aspiration

"What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself." ~Anna Jameson

George Eliot Quote on Possibilities

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~George Eliot

John Townsend Trowbridge Quote on Strength

"Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies." ~John Townsend Trowbridge

Arthur Miller Quote on Strength

"Once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less." ~Arthur Miller

Booker T. Washington Quote On Success

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." ~Booker T. Washington

J.R.R. Tolkien Quote On Life's Journey

"Little by little, one travels far." ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Maya Angelou Quote on Change

"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind." ~Maya Angelou

Seneca the Younger Quote on Courage

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." ~Seneca the Younger

John Lancaster Spalding Quote on Courage

"The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is." ~John Lancaster Spalding

Zen Poem on Silver Linings

"Since my house burned down, I now have a better view of the rising moon." ~Zen poem

Poem on Nature by R.H. Grenville

"Sweet smelling earth,
sun overhead;
orchards in bloom:
pink, white, and red.
Water free flowing,
light breeze from the west:
birds singing, busily
building a nest.
Plowed fields seeded,
green leaves in the wood.
Everything working together
for good."

~ "Together for Good," R. H. Grenville

Dilys Laing Quote on Zen

"I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it. She looks up and gives me her full gaze. Don't be ridiculous, she purrs, I wrote it."~ from "Miao" by Dilys Laing

Eric Hoffer Quote on Priorities

"When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else -- we are the busiest people in the world." ~Eric Hoffer

Marva Collins Quote on Originality

"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide." ~Marva Collins

Quote on Spirit

"People turn to Spirit when their foundations are shaking, only to discover that it is Spirit that is shaking them." ~Author Unknown

Lao-Tzu Quote on Direction

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." ~Lao Tzu

Albert Einstein Quote on Imagination

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." ~Albert Einstein

Henry David Thoreau Quote on Writing

"If one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground." ~Henry David Thoreau

Robert Cecil Day Lewis Quote on Writing

"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." ~Robert Cecil Day Lewis

Henry David Thoreau Quote on Truth

"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy." ~Henry David Thoreau

Katherine Mansfield Quote on Risk

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." ~Katherine Mansfield

Charlotte Bronte Quote on Writing

"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself.... If the result be attractive, the world will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same world will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame." ~Charlotte Bronte

Emerson Quote On Confidence

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bernard Berenson Quote On Life & Death

"A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the nonself that there is no self left to die." ~Bernard Berenson

Thoreau Quote On Change

"Things do not change; we change." ~Thoreau

Mary Wollstonecraft Quote on Beginning

"The beginning is always today." ~Mary Wollstonecraft

Deepak Chopra Quote On Creativity

"All the most extraordinary historical events took place on ordinary days, and the most extraordinary thoughts arose in minds that were having ordinary thoughts." ~Deepak Chopra

Chinese Proverb On Social Action

"One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade." ~Chinese proverb

Wallace Stevens Quote On Rejection

"After the final no there comes a yes, and on that yes the future world depends." ~Wallace Stevens

Eudora Welty Quote on Childhood

"Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse." ~Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

Emily Dickinson Quote on Anger

"Anger as soon is fed is dead
'Tis starving makes it fat."
~Emily Dickinson

Shakti Gawain Quote on Collective Consciousness

"Since we're integrally connected in consciousness, no one individual can evolve far ahead of everyone else. We are all contained within a certain field of consciousness. Though we may take a role close to the leading edge, we cannot leave our fellow beings far behind since in essence we are all one. So we have no choice but to evolve together, bringing all our brothers and sisters along with us." ~Shakti Gawain, The Path of Transformation