“So much of our lives is spent in a longing and a search – for what, we do not know. So many of our ostensible “goals,” so many of the things we think we want, turn out to be the masks behind which our real desires hide; they are symbols for the actual values and qualities for which we hunger. They are not reducible to physical or material things, not even to a physical person; they are psychological qualities: love, truth, honesty, loyalty, purpose – something we can feel is noble, precious, and worthy of our devotion. We try to reduce all this to something physical – a house, a car, a better job, or a human being – but it doesn’t work. Without realizing it, we are searching for the Sacred. And the sacred is not redcucible to anything else.” – Robert A. Johnson

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Self esteem is when you know you’re okay, and your opinion is the only one that matters.” – Shaun Roundy

“[Lack of] mental health is the single biggest waste of human potential in the developed world.” – Peter Shalek

“Mental health is the single biggest waste of human potential in the developed world.” – Peter Shalek

“When we fear, it is because we are not perfect in love. The less love, the more fear.” – Maxwell

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” – Francis Bacon

“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Dare to stand before those you fear and speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” – Maggie Kuhn

“What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.” – Rumi

“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.” – Leo Tolstoy

“It ain’t over till it’s over.” – Yogi Berra

“Religion is the separation of what is Godly from what is secular, but spirituality is the understanding that there is no division, that that which is Godly encompasses all the earth.” – Denny Duron

“We should concern ourselves not so much with the pursuit of happiness, but with the happiness of pursuit.” – François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness.” – Hector and the Search for Happiness (movie)

“Even After All this time, The Sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky.” – Hafiz

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.” – Mike Tyson

“They say we are what we eat. I think it’s much deeper than that. I think we’re the songs we sing. The movies we love to watch. The bed we sleep in. The chairs we work in. The friends we speak with. The cars we drive in. The flowers we gather. I think that’s why spending some time in pristine nature is so valuable. May we surround ourselves with organic beauty and soak in the rays of light.” – Nathan Sinclair Vineyard

“Life is showering its gifts upon us at this very moment. There is a force of love and light that is streaming, rushing, pouring toward us from all angles at all times. All we have to do is to let it in.” – Alan Cohen

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.” C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis

“Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” – Jimmy Carter

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him.” – C.S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity”

“It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.” – C.S. Lewis, “Reflections on the Psalms”

“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” – George Aberle

“We give and give and give until we have everything.” – Unknown

“People like to say that everything’s ‘perfect,’ and you look around and see that life is anything but that! But just as a weight bench is perfect for strengthening muscles but too uncomfortable for sleeping or sitting back and watching TV, life provides the resistance you need to learn and grow. You didn’t come here to sit back, relax and feel happy all the time; you came here to grow, and the way to grow is to bravely face the problems before you and improve yourself in the process. Life’s imperfections provide perfect opportunities to build your spiritual muscles.” – Shaun Roundy

“Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains – except kill it.” – Erich Fromm

“Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.” – Unknown

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” – Carl Jung

“Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.” – Mark Twain

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz

“The opposite of play is not work – the opposite of play is depression.” – Dr. Stuart Brown

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

“The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.” – Anne Lamott

“The opposite of joy is not sadness, but fear.” – Anne Robertson