Quotations

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

- Christian Bovee

In you are natural powers. You already possess everything necessary to become great.

- Chief Crow

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

- Frank Tyger

The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way. 

- Anonymous

The only Zen you find on the tops of the mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

- Robert M. Pirsig

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

- Carlos Castaneda

Only people who carry the opinions of others need the support of others.

- Osho

The only unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

- John F. Kennedy

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

- Turkish Proverb

Any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

- Carlos Castaneda

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

- Mark Twain

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

- Immanuel Kant

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

- Oscar Wilde

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

- H.G. Wells

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

- James Russell Lowell

Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.

- Osho 

We have Common Ground. We all have a body which is readily visible. We have a mind that is witnessed by our words, a spirit that is seen through our actions. Spirituality is our Common Ground. We come together having arrived through many value systems. We search for those common threads that unite us and validate us. We unify through our commonality; we respect our diversity. In the openness of our spirits, we move forward seeking the truth about ourselves.

- Jane Mullikin

So remember, my meaning of discipline is not that of any Ten Commandments...Your discipline has to come from your very heart, it has to be your own--and there is a great difference. When somebody else gives you the discipline, it can never fit you; it will be like wearing somebody else's clothes. Either they will be too loose or too tight, and you will always feel a little bit silly in them.

- Osho 

Spiritual perception must be an individual quest or it has no meaning...Even steps in the wrong direction give us insight into the many paths designed to teach us...On the road of life we must take responsibility for all our decisions without blaming other people for life's setbacks that bring unhappiness.

- Michael Newton

It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter--it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

- Osho

You could sit on top of a mountain praying for hours a day and still not make it if you had no love in your heart. You could spend your life feeding the poor and still not make it because your karma required you to bear and nurture children. The path home to God is different for every person. Only communion with your Higher Self will reveal your path to you.

- Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Life in itself has no meaning. Life is an opportunity to create meaning. Meaning has not to be discovered; it has to be created. You will find meaning only if you create it. It is not lying there somewhere behind the bushes, so you can go and you search a little bit and find it. It is not there like a rock that you will find. It is a poetry to be composed, it is a song to be sung, it is a dance to be danced. 

- Osho

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

- George Bernard Shaw

We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

- Shakti Gawain

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.

- Stanley Kubrick

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

- George Santayana

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

- Vauvenargues

It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason.

- Blaise Pascal

Every man must get to heaven his own way.

- Frederick the Great

A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.

- Louis L'Amour

Before enlightenment-chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment-chop wood, carry water.

- Zen Buddhist Proverb

 Few things are impossible to diligence and skill….Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.

- Samuel Johnson 

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

- Benjamin Franklin 

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

- Rudyard Kipling

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

- Bishop Richard Cumberland 

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

-Napolean Bonaparte

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

- Henri Matisse

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.

- Sanskrit Proverb