“The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.” – C.S. Lewis

“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.” – C.S. Lewis

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.” – Billy Wilder

“I define love thus: The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing ones own or another’s spiritual growth.” – M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Misery loves [miserable] company. Fill yourself with enough love and light and energy vampires will leave you alone.” – Shaun Roundy

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.” – Galileo Galilei

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” – John Steinbeck

“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” – William James

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.” – Harry Palmer

“To pierce through the illusion of separateness, to realize that which lies beyond duality—that is a goal worthy of a lifetime.” – Unknown

“There is a sense in which we are all each other’s consequences.” – Wallace Stegner

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’” – Betty Smith

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.” – Jesus

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.” – Dante Alighieri

“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank

“Beauty is whatever gives joy.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

“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

“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

“In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.” – Barbara de Angelis

“Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.” – Deepak Chopra

“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.” – Tony Robbins

“Stay gold, Ponyboy.” – S. E. Hinton

“Success is 1% inspiration and 99% not getting distracted by Facebook.” – Unknown

“Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” – John Muir

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

“In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person’s development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.” – Rollo May

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.” – Kate Chopin

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.” – Brene Brown

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey

“The only way to change the past is to replace it with something better.” – Wendell Barry

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.” – Madeleine L’Engle