Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”

– Douglas Coupland

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”

– Maya Angelou

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”

– Woodrow Wilson

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”

– Robert Fritz

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers