Quotations

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  "He who knows others is wise.  He who knows himself is enlightened."  -- Lao Tzu

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."  --Deepak Chopra

"Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death."                                                                            -- Theodore Roosevelt

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."                                                                             -- Abraham Maslow

"For one who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends.  But for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be his greatest enemy."  -- Bhagavad Gita

"Happiness depends on ourselves."   -- Aristotle

""humility does not mean that you think less of yourself, it means that you think of yourself less."                   -- Ken blanchard

"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."                                -- Mariianne Williamson

"to grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past.  Your history is not your destiny."  -- Alan Cohen

"Too many people undervalue what they are and overvalue what they are not."                                                                 -- Malcolm Forbes

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."                                                                                            -- William shakespeare

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many - not upon your past misfortunes, of which all men have some..."   -- Charles Dickens

"To find yourself, think for yourSelf."   -- Socrates

"You, yourself, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and affection."    --Buddha

"i am happy and content because i think I am."   -- Alain Rene Lesage

"Oh God, help me believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it is.     Amen."                            -- Macrina Wiederkehr

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with."  -- Wayne Dyer

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that      you have built agains it."     -- Rumi

"We are what we think.  All that we are arises with our thoughts.  With our thoughs we make our world."    -- Buddha

"The world rewards those who take responsibility for their own success."                                                     -- Curt Gerrish

"We first make our habits and then our habits make us."   -- John Dryden

"What a wonderful life I've had.  I only wish I'd realized it sooner."   -- Collette

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.  To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete."    -- Buckminster Fuller

"Increasing your self-esteem is easy.  Simply do good things and remember that you did them."                        -- John Roger

"Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone."    -- Robert Allen

"By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you."    -- Deepak Chopra

"Being Grateful.  That is the first step on the path to Joy."   -- Sarah Ban Breahtnach

"Forgiveness in no way justifies the actions that caused your wounding, nor does it mean that you have to seek out those who harmed you.  It is simply a movement to release and ease your heart of the pain and hatred that binds it.  It is the harvested fruit of a season of darkness, followed by a season of growth and of very hard work."    -- Dawna Markova

"Hate is a monkey on your back.  It weighs you down.  Hate may be destroying your life.  Meanwhile, the person you hate may not know or care.  He or she may even be dead.  Forgiving is a gift to yourself.  You forgive so that can get on with your life."   -- Ron Potter Effron

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enloarge the future."                                                                                                                           -- Paul Boese

"To be wronged is nothing unless you remember it." -- Confucius

"As an expression of its intention to manifest itself, Source yearns to be expressed as fully as possible.  Thus, when you embrace your magnificence by either doing or acknowledging good things, you are aligning with the intention of "That" which thinks through you and helping it make good on its promise..."                                                                                     -- Michael Nitti