You are meant to be here, now.
RAM DASS

Tell me what it is that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER

Not to have fun at work is a tragedy, bordering on the criminal.
Curiosity and fun are handmaidens.
Go out of your way to make laughter a workplace staple.
TOM PETERS

There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

All kinds of seeds of power are within you
waiting for you to develop them.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
CARL SAGAN

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can
DANNY KAYE

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
OSCAR WILDE

A society grows great when old men plant trees
whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
GREEK PROVERB

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
MAYA ANGELOU

Go out and make people feel good for no good reason.
DR RICHARD BANDLER

Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
JELALUDDIN RUMI

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?
FRANK J GIBLIN

Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth…home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of Divinity.
EDGAR MITCHELL, Apollo 14

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES

The mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work unless it’s open!
SIR JAMES DEWAR

One has just to be oneself.  That's my basic message.  The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. 
Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH

The snow goose does not bathe to make itself white. 
Neither need you do anything but be yourself
LAO-TSE

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves strong.
The amount of work is the same.
CARLOS CASTENADA

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't.
RICHARD BACH

The Divine has no body on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which
the Divine compassion is to look out to the world
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.
TERESA of AVILA

Kindness
is the mark of faith;
and whoever has not kindness
has not faith.
MUHAMMAD

Thousands of candles
can be lighted from a single candle,
and the life of the candle
will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases
by being shared.
THE BUDDHA

We cannot become what we need to be
by remaining what we are.
MAX DEPREE

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
BERTRAND RUSSELL

I long to be wild and perfect for a moment.
MARY OLIVER

We can no longer afford to live as half-light versions of ourselves.
The complexity of our time requires a greater and wiser use of our capacities,
a rich playing of the instrument we have been given.
The world can thrive only if we can grow.
The possible society can become a reality
only if we learn to be the humans we are meant to be.
JEAN HOUSTON

This is what home is then:
not only the place you remember but the places that remember you,
even if you have never been there before,
the places that hold some essential piece of you in trust,
waiting for you to return when you go out to other places in the world,
as you must.
ORIAH MOUNTAIN DREAMER

From all journeys, be they imaginative or geographic, the most important souvenirs to be collected are the reminders that peoples' lives are fortified by family and friends; by our ability to create our lives like creating a piece of art; and by our efforts to reconcile our material needs with the importance of our connections to each other.
LOREENA McKENNIT
The Book of Secrets

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
HELEN KELLER

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
ROBERT FROST

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
SENECA

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
WINSTON CHURCHILL

Told you I was ill.
SPIKE MILLIGAN

There is no passion to be found playing small
 - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
NELSON MANDELA

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others. You're in business to spread love.
Your screenplay should spread love. Your hair salon should spread love.
Your agency should spread love. Your life should spread love.
The key to a successful career is realising that it's not separate
from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self.
And your most basic self is love.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON - 'A Return to Love'

To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.
RAYMOND WILLIAMS

Stand up and walk out of your history.
DR PHIL McGRAW

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
ROBERT SCHULLER

People say 'One day I'll look back on this and laugh', I say 'Why wait!'
DR RICHARD BANDLER

Always laugh when you can, it's cheap medicine.
UNKNOWN

Use your energy in the direction of Truth.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
MICHAELANGELO

All the significant breakthroughs were breaks with old ways of thinking.
THOMAS KUHN

'Why can't I fly Tinkerbelle?'
'To fly Peter Pan, you have to find your happy thoughts.'
J M BARRIE: Peter Pan

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. . . . The stars form a circle, and in the centre we dance.
RUMI

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Seek to create change not because a thing is wrong, but because it no longer makes an accurate statement of Who You Are.
NEALE DONALD WALSH

What we are looking for
is what is looking.
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
MAX DEPREE

Change that happens slowly is like masterbating one stroke a day - no fun!
DR RICHARD BANDLER

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence,
and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction.
The chain reaction of evil must be broken,
or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Dr Martin Luther King Jnr

It’s our choices Harry
that show us what we really are,
far more than our abilities.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Harry Potter - J K Rowling

Just as salt is to the ocean, so freedom is to enlightenment. 
Just as you know the ocean because it tastes of salt,
so you will know enlightenment - it tastes of freedom.
THE BUDDHA

The day will come when you will realize
that the entire universe can be found inside you.
DEEPAK CHOPRA

A long healthy and happy life is the result of making contributions of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others..
HANS SELYE

The stories people tell
have a way of taking care of them.
If stories come to you,
care for them
and learn to give them away
where they are needed.
There are times when one needs a story more than one needs food to stay alive,
for stories are food for the soul.
BARRY LOPEZ

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.  We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Every living thing has been granted the power, if it so desires, to seek an opening to freedom and to go through it.  It is evident to the seer who sees the opening, and to the creatures that go through it.
CARLOS CASTENADA: 'The Eagle's Gift'

Another difficulty with most psychology is that it studies broken people to find out how to fix them.  That's like studying all the cars in a junkyard to figure out how to make cars run better.  If you study lots of schizophrenics, you may learn how to do schizophrenia really well, but you won't learn about the things they CAN'T do!
DR RICHARD BANDLER

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.  I mean, life is tough.  It takes up a lot of your time.  What do you get at the end of it?  Death.  What's that, a bonus?  I think the life cycle is all backwards.  You should die first, get it out of the way.  Then you live in an old age home.  You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work.  You work forty years until you're old enough to enjoy your retirement.  You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school.  You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating ... and then you finish off as an orgasm!
GEORGE CARLIN

Not to have fun at work is a tragedy  bordering on the criminal.  Curiosity and fun are handmaidens.  Go out of your way to make laughter a workplace staple.
TOM PETERS

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
HENRY FORD

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
GANDHI

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
HENRY FORD

Feeling is the language of the soul.  If you want to know what's true for you about something, look to how you are feeling about it.  Feelings are sometimes difficult to discover - and even more difficult to acknowledge.  Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.
NEALE DONALD WALSH

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who
represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
ANTHONY D'ANGELO

Listen to the MUSTN'Ts child,
Listen to the DON'Ts
Listen to the SHOULDN'Ts
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'Ts,
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child
ANYTHING can be.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
NELSON MANDELA

I ask God: “How much time do I have left?”
and God replies: “Enough to make a difference.
UNKNOWN

To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.
RAYMOND WILLIAMS

If not you, who?  If not now, when?
UNKNOWN

A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.
UNKNOWN

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
NELSON MANDELA

Leadership is doing what is right when no-one is watching.
GEORGE VAN VALKENBURG

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
MARK TWAIN

Let go of the idea that the tribe is going to give approval.  When you're learning anything that is outside the parameters of the tribe, what you are doing is saying, 'I am going to evolve at a faster rate'. But if you go to the tribe and tell them that, immediately you're going to be put in your place.  The mantra of the tribe is 'But what will people think'.  The speed of the tribe is slow.
WAYNE DYER

Somewhere there are people to whom we can speak with passion, without having the words catch in our throats.  Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us, whenever we come into our own power.  Community means strength that joins our strength, to do the work which needs to be done.  Arms to hold us when we falter.  A circle of heaing.  A circle of friends.  Someplace where we can be free.
STARHAWK

Life and living according to the (Aborigine) tribe is in movement, advancement, and change.  They spoke about alive and non-alive time.  People are non-living when anry, depressed, feeling sorry for themselves, or filled with fear.  Breathing doesn't determine being alive.  It just tells others which body is ready for burial or not!  Not all breathing people are in a state of aliveness.  It's ok to try out negative emotions and see how they feel, but it certainly isn't a place one would wisely want to stay.  When the soul is in human form you get to play - to see how it feels to be happy or sad, jealous or grateful, and so on.  But you are supposed to learn from teh experience and ultimately figure out which feels painful and which feels great.
MARLO MORGAN

To change one's life: start immediately,
do it flamboyantly, no exceptions, no excuses.
WILLIAM JAMES

Rest satisfied with doing well and leave others to talk of you as they will.
PYTHAGORAS

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

A definition of mental illness is doing the same thing over and over
and expecting different results.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you nowhere.  Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a Revelation.
EILEEN CADDY

It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
URSULA KROEBER LEGUIN

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH

I am my message.
GANDHI

Each of us is potentially the difference in the world.
UNKNOWN

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something.
WINSTON CHURCHILL

Myth must be kept alive.
The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
The function of the artist
is the mythologization of the environment and the world.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL, Hero With a Thousand Faces

The power of myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections -- not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . . . and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences.
ALAN LEE

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.
WINSTON CHURCHILL

I reserve the right to fail as fundamental; it allows clear-headed people with resilient souls to rebound and go further than they ordinarily would.
BERNARD TAPIE

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now; bump, bump, on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin.  It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.
A A MILNE

When we are no longer able to change a situation…
we are challenged to change ourselves.
VIKTOR FRANKL, author of Man's Search For Meaning

I took the road less travelled, and it made all the difference
ROBERT FROST

Do, or do not. There is no try.
YODA

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
HENRY JACKSON BROWN

Even on the right track, you get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart . . . . Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
CARL GUSTAV JUNG

The diversity that beckons to us outside is a mere shadow play of the real treasures that are inside.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
SPIKE MILLIGAN

Told you I was ill.
SPIKE MILLIGAN

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
CHIEF SEATTLE

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost,
to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON

All the flowers of all of the tomorrows
are in the seeds of today ...
UNKNOWN

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 harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
MARK TWAIN

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of
his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us
to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our
task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its
beauty.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

What is now proved was once only imagined.
WILLIAM BLAKE

‘At every point in time
there are infinite possibilities,
and a parallel reality exists for each possibility ...’
Daniel Jackson
‘Point of View’

I am not my memories. I am my dreams.
Terry Hostetler

Here is the Divine Dichotomy.
The way to ‘get there’ is to ‘be there’.
Just be where you choose to get!
It’s that simple.
Conversations With God, Book 3
NEALE DONALD WALSH

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLIN

I long to be wild and perfect for a moment.
MARY OLIVER

Every blade of grass
has its Angel that bends over it
and whispers, ‘Grow, grow!’
THE TALMUD

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
HENRY FORD

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
CHINESE PROVERB

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


Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
HENRY FORD
 

The world as we see it, is only the world as we see it.
Others may see it differently.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

One new perception,
one fresh thought,
one act of surrender,
one change of heart,
one leap of faith,
can change your life forever.
'Shift Happens!'
ROBERT HOLDEN

Blame no-one!
Expect nothing!
Do something!
Posted in the locker room of
THE NEW YORK JETS

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
HENRY FORD

The Universe rearranges itself to bring you what you believe.
DIANA COOPER

When something seems to change in the world,
the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.
‘Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind Body Medicine’
DEEPAK CHOPRA

Better keep yourself clean and bright;
 you are the window through which you must see the world.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Energy is magnetic.
One law of energy is this:
energy of a certain quality or vibration
tends to attract
energy of a similar quality and vibration.
‘Creative Visualization’
SHAKTI GAWAIN

If there is light in the soul,
There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
There will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
There will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
There will be peace in the world.
CHINESE PROVERB

You gain strength, courage, and confidence
in every experience
in which you stop and look fear in the face.
You must do the thing you cannot do.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

When you cannot make up your mind
which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take
– choose the bolder.
W J SLIM

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself
… and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
SHIRLEY MacLAINE

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD

It is never too late to become who you might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being,
then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
ABRAHAM H MASLOW

Forgiveness is not a moral issue.
It is an energy dynamic...
Forgiveness means that you do not carry
the baggage of an experience.
When you choose not to forgive,
the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.
When you choose not to forgive,
 it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses
that distort everything,
and it is you who are forced every day
to look at life through those contaminated lenses
because you have chosen to keep them.
‘The Seat of the Soul’
GARY ZUKAV

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.
Take off all your envies,
jealousies,
unforgiveness,
selfishness, and fears.
GLENN CLARK

There are many who are living far below their possibilities
because they are continually handing over their individualities to others.
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself.
Be true to the highest within your soul
and then allow yourself to be governed
by no customs or conventionalities
or arbitrary man-made rules
 that are not founded on principle.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

No matter what your work,
let it be your own.
No matter what your occupation,
let what you are doing be organic.
Let it be in your bones.
In this way,
you will open the door by which
the affluence of heaven and earth shall stream into you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets her intuition lead her wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed herself of concepts and keeps her mind open to what is.
LAO-TZE, TAO TE CHING

Books seek us out.
They slip themselves into our hands
just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
‘There is a Place Where You Are Not Alone'
HUGH PRATHER

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but
originality, the opening of new frontiers.
-ARTHUR KOESTLER

We are all filled with a longing for the wild.
There are few culturally sanctioned antidotes for this yearning.
We were taught to feel shame for such a desire.
We grew our hair long and used it to hide our feelings.
But the shadow of the Wild Woman
still lurks behind us during our days and in our nights.
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES
Women Who Run With the Wolves

Somewhere,
something incredible
is waiting to be known.
CARL SAGAN

The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each ghostly reflection in the clear water of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father. The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give to the rivers the kindness you would give any brother. This we know: The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to earth.
CHIEF SEATTLE

When you come to the edge of all the light you know,
and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown,
Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen:
There will be something solid to stand on,
or You will be taught how to fly.
BARBARA J WINTER

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes
the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do
and dare. The 'sure thing' boat never gets far from shore.
DALE CARNEGIE

The distinction between past, present, and the future is only an illusion, however persistent. Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the
child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
ALDOUS HUXLEY

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviours.
Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits.
Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
GANDHI

There once was a little wave dancing about in the sea alongside bigger waves.  As the waves bobbed and danced closer and closer to the shore the little wave got frightened and started yelling out to the big waves 'I'm scared to get to the shore.  When we all get to the shore we crash and die and its all over, finished, and we will be no more!'  One of the big waves with even more bounce and energy than the other waves said to the little wave 'Aaaah, I see why you are so scared.  It's because you thnk you are just a wave.  Shall I tell you a secret little one.  You are not a wave at all.  You are part of the ocean, and to the ocean you will return to live again.'
MITCH ABLOM: 'Tuesdays With Morrie'
 

The world is full of stories, and from time to time they permit themselves to be told.
CHEROKEE SAYING

The stories people tell
have a way of taking care of them.
If stories come to you,
care for them
and learn to give them away
where they are needed.
There are times when one needs a story
more than one needs food to stay alive,
for stories are food for the soul.
BARRY LOPEZ

The world is full of stories, not of atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER