Quotes


So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
Oprah Winfrey

Change your mind and you change the world.
Barbara Cordts

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi

We are not held back by the love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
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Marianne Williamson

Your mission is where the world’s deepest hunger and your heart’s greatest gladness intersect.
Richard Bolles

So artists have to ask themselves, ‘Is my art just a way of affirming my mediocre whiney-ass self, or am I up to the challenge of spiritual transformation, reaching for the higher self and a deeper art?’
Ken Wilber

You are a ripple in the fabric of the cosmos.
Deepak Chopra

This instant—this one now—is always your life’s beginning, a fresh chance to start living your destiny.
Martha Beck

A “No” uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler.
H.D. Thoreau

If you don’t love something it will not reveal itself.
Barbara Cordts

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Rabindranath Tagore

There’s no such thing as a winnable war, it’s a lie we don’t believe anymore.
Sting

Each time you judge yourself you break your heart.
Kirpal Venanji

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle

I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gaugin

No great artist ever sees things as they really are; if he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones 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

Every wall is a door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We become what we think about all day long.
Wayne Dyer

It is not that we don’t know the right answers, it is just that we don’t ask the right questions.
Anthony Robbins

When in doubt wing it.
unknown (but I can strongly recommend it)

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Winston Churchill

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein

It takes a lot of maturity to be happy.
Barbara Cordts

We should stop trying to get into heaven and start trying to create it.
Randy Marsh on "Southpark"

Smoking seriously reduces the risk of jogging.
Stephen Colbert

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