"Ultimately, your greatest teacher is to live with an open heart." Immanuel Kant

"Invisible fates may stand behind visible failures." James Hillman

"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think evil of himself." Goethe

"Follow your bliss." Joseph Campbell

"Where you stumble there lies your treasure." Joseph Campbell

"Go in to your own ground and learn to know yourself there." Meister Eckhardt

"Only the wounded healer heals." T.S. Eliot

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought." Basho

"Every day is a good day." Yun-Men

"The whole of life lies in the verb "seeing." Teilhard de Chardin

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"To believe in something and not to live it, is dishonest." Mahatma Gandhi

"It is not the mountain ahead that wears us out, but the grains of sand in our shoes." Japanese proverb

"Between the conception, And the creation, Between the emotion, And the response, Falls the Shadow." T.S. Eliot

"Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens." JRR Tolkein

"Memory is a function of present intention." Sam Keen

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?" Bertolt Brecht

"Joyful participation in the sorrows of the world." Joseph Campbell

"Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction." Anonymous

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." Erin Majors

"To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." Unknown

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great." Mark Twain

"The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand."
--Robert Vallett

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." Harriet Braiker

"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

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable receiving." Albert Einstein

"All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact." Stewart O'Nan

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway." Eleanor Roosevelt

"The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get." Bertrand Russell

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." Oscar Wilde

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
Erma Bombeck

"You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost." Martha Graham

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love." Lao-Tzu