Quotations

It is never too late to be what you might have been.--George Eliot

Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.--Johnny Carson

We perch at the mirrored surfaced of illusion without taking the extra time to allow the question to rise from our inner depths: ‘What do I really want out of life?'
Once we’ve found an answer, there will always be time to think about how to attain it. But isn’t it sad to stifle the question itself? --Matthieu Ricard

A person who is unaware is unaware that they are unaware. --Dr. Harvey Silver

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?--Katherine Graham

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it.--Martha Graham

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.--Anais Nin

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.--Sigmund Freud

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.--Robin Williams

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.--Charles Kingsley

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?--Jack London

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. --John Gardner

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high and life worth living…
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted… --Alain Boublil, Les Miserables

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. --William James

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. --Groucho Marx

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it’s an undo-it-yourself project. --Abigail Van Buren

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s one way. --- Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

First, say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -- Epictetus

This above all: To thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. --William Shakespeare, Hamlet

It is not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. --Roy Disney

A man should so live that at the close of every day he can repeat "I have not wasted my day." --Zohar

…he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. --- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.--Vance Havner

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.--T.S.Eliot

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.--Jean Houston

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love.
When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. --Sophia Loren

In everybody’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be grateful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. --Albert Schweitzer