“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
“Everything! Now! Boldness and clarity open the door to mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical intensity and stimulation, which generate the sensation of feeling fully alive.” – Shaun Roundy
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“When Newton’s Apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so slightly, fell toward the apple as well.” – Ellen Bass
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Eliot
“Belonging is the absence of the fear that you don’t.” – Shaun Roundy
“Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.” – Brené Brown
“Self-awareness is your only permanent get-out-of-hell-free card.” – Shaun Roundy
“If you’re pretty, you’re pretty; but the only way to be beautiful is to be loving. Otherwise, it’s just ‘congratulations about your face.’” – John Mayer
“Which is more important,” asked Big Panda, “the journey or the destination?” “The company,” said Tiny Dragon – James Norbury
“I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.” – Walt Whitman
Happiness = Reality / Expectations
“Stop waiting for the perfect moment…it’s already here.” – Shaun Roundy
“If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.” – Billy Joel
“You don’t have an identity without a memory.” – Michael Pollan
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Our expectations are the filters for how we make judgements about anything.” – Michael Yapko
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” – F. Matthias Alexander
“A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” – African proverb
“How you do anything is how you do everything.” – Martha Beck
“Ignorance is bliss until all of a sudden…it isn’t.” – Shaun Roundy
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!” – Jacob Marley (Charles Dickens)
“Our consciousness is for transforming the future into the present.” – Jordan Peterson
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.” – Leo Tolstoy
“The larger the gap between what you expect and what you want, the more distressed you feel.” – Jennice Vilhauer
“I don’t think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.” – Osho
“The only thing wrong with you is that you think there’s something wrong with you.” – Unknown
“Taking care of myself doesn’t mean ‘me first.’ It means ‘me, too.'” – L.R. Knost
“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” – Mother Teresa
“I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.” – Charles Cooley
“Life is arranged against us. We’re all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren’t we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we’ll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that’s all.” – Sue Monk Kidd
“Humanity is the worst! And also the best.” – Shaun Roundy
“Launching a rhetorical grenade might give me a little satisfaction and earn me a few attaboys on social media from those who share my views, but generosity and openness have a bigger chance of making the world better in the long run.” – Arthur C. Brooks
“There is a life force, a vitality that exists within each of us that longs to be translated into action.” – Martha Graham
“From now on, my life lived will be my life’s work. ” – Mari Andrew
“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” – Desmond Tutu
“I promise, if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.” – Tyler Kent White