March 19, 2024

Favorite Quotes

“Here’s what my love affair with quotations has taught me: The more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas in those words.”

— Oprah

“I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without every noticing it, live your way into the answer…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke


At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you”

— Goethe


My Life is My Message”


It is our ability to be present to the moment, yet unattached to the outcome of any situation, that helps help us create intimate relationships”

— Charlotte Kasl, If the Buddah Dated


Luck is Preparation meeting Opportunity”


There is no such thing as Failure….only Feedback”


To Thine Own Self Be True”

— Shakespeare


Don’t Waste a Good Crisis”

— Rev. Micheal Beckwith


The Good Life is being in Cohesion with your Infinite Essence”


Ego = Etching God Out”


The Truth Shall set you Free”


When you use a situation to withhold, you deflect a miracle”

— Marianne Williamson


Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass…it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”


Know….Ask……Believe…..Receive”


Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way”


Shower the People you Love with Love”

— James Taylor

All those who achieve great things are great dreamers.”


I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

— Rainer Maria Rilke


Love changes the Architecture of your heart”

, M.D


The world will be saved by the western woman.”

— Dalai Lama, Vancouver Peace Summit 2009


What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”

— Emerson


Confusion is Last Stop on the way to Clarity”

— Allen Cohen


Fear is Excitement without the Breadth”

— Fritz Perls, M.D.


An unexamined life is not worth living”

— Socrates


Be the Change You Want to See”

— Gandi


Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.

— Albert Einstein


Shower the People you Love with Love”

— James Taylor


All those who achieve great things are great dreamers.”


“In all things, even in the most recondite mysteries of the soul, nature is the first and finest of teachers.”

— Thomas Moore


“Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

— Margaret Mead, anthropologist & writer


“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

— LaoTao


“The secret of success is to make your vocation your vacation.”

— Mark Twain


“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan


MY ALL TIME FAVORITE

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. 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. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

— Marianne Williamson (Also quoted later by Nelson Mandela.)