quotes: Someone elses words, because i cannot find my own right now.

“You can't take flight without looking up and letting go.” - She Who Weaves the Web




“Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.” - William Alexander


“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
Two Wolves
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a
battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son,
The battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret,
greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment
Inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope,
serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,
empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute
and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." 


“Things do not change; we change.” -Henry David Thoreau 
 
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.” -Mark Twain


“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.” ~Harold J. Smith


“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson"


"Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let the light in.” - Unknown


“Tears are a river that takes you somewhere. Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.” - Clarissa Pinkola Estes 


“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” - Richard Bach


“Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.” - J.C.F. von Schiller


“Shame is guilt in overdrive. If it helps think of the difference between shame and guilt as this: shame says "I'm bad, I'm flawed", guilt says "what I did was harmful to myself and/or others, and I can do better than that". Thoughts of healthy, unbiased guilt are how you converse with your conscience, while feelings of shame don't even let the conversation begin.” - Renee Bledsoe


  “We move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.” - Anne Wilson Schaef, Ph.D.


“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge 


“One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” - Sigmund Freud


“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” -Carl Jung


“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Roosevelt


“Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” -
Ralph Blum


“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength;
loving someone deeply gives you courage.” - Lao Tzu


“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, but to create something that will.” - Unknown


“Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our
worthiest desires.” - Randolph S. Bourne 


“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”  -Albert Einstein


“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.” -Rene Descartes


“It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.”  -Aesop


“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” -Aldous Huxley


“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban


“Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.” - Bill Wilson, cofounder Alcoholics Anonymous 


Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Frank Outlaw 


“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” - Sir John Lubbock 


“We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.”
-Blaise Pascal (1723-1662)


“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.” - Charles Du Bos


“You become what you behold.” -William Blake


 “Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.” - Joseph Campbell

“Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.” - unknown


“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm. - unknown


"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.” -Joseph Campbell 


“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

“There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.” - unknown



 
“There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth.” ~Joseph Campbell

“The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”  - Lloyd Jones

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” - Aldous Huxley

“One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.” - Wayne Gretzky

“Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.”
- C.S. Lewis

“If I am not for myself, who will be? And if I am for myself alone, then what am I? And if not now, when?”
- Rabbi Hillel, Pirke Avot 1:14

For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these,
'It might have been'.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”  - Mahatma Gandhi

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
- Margaret Mead

“And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.” - Burton Hills

“Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.” - unknown

“Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow,
so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.” - unknown


“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

“Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.” - David O. McKay


“Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.” - Confuscious


“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.” - Dr. Wayne Dyer
“All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.” - Mahatma Gandhi


“Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.” - Paramhansa Yogananda

“When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” - L. A. Rouchefolicauld


“I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” - Voltaire