| _ Heidi's Favorite Quotes - _ |
| "Ancora Imparo" - I am still learning.
-Michelangelo (1475-1564) His 87th year "Nothing is worth more than this day. " -Author Unknown "Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. " -Author Unknown "Let Your Life Speak." Live authentically. Let others know what matters to you. Embody your truths and values. Follow your vocation. -Author Unknown "Indulge your imagination in every possible flight." -Jane Austin "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams." -Henry David Thoreau "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within is." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "You are simply my best time. You are my sweetest laughter. You are my most peaceful sleep... and still! you find new ways to love me. Always you will have my hand to hold. Always... -MaryAnne Radmacher "Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit." -Frank Lloyd Wright "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao Tzu "Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of standing still." -Chinese Proverb "Life is not measured by the breaths we take- but by the moments that take our breath away. " -Author Unknown "In a world filled with noise, we need to quiet ourselves to hear God's voice." -Paul Borthwick "There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in." -Seth ? "There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life." -Frederico Fellini "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." -Neale Donald Walsch "The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life." -Dalai Lama "We can respond creatively to what we experience as life-depriving and become richer in spirit for having met the challenge. -Tad Crawford "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" -Dr. Seuss (via Elena) �Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it� -Dan Millman �A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power� -Mark Rutherford "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -Lao Tzu �Your only limitations are those you set up in your mind, or permit others to set up for you� -Og Mandino �The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.� -Henri Bergson "If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility." -Dr. Norman Vincent Peale �The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.� -Sydney Smiles �Often he who does too much does too little� -Italian Proverb �Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.� -John Petit-Senn Serenity I am free, my mind is clear I am safe I accept things as they are I accept me just as I am I surrender I walk in serenity I live for today I am perfect just the way I am I let go Today I am content with my life I am confident Today I keep it simple I am in perfect harmony I am willing I live one day at a time I am open minded Acceptance is the answer I am not alone I am OK I embrace the journey "Worrying Does not empty Tomorrow Of it�s Troubles It empties Today Of it�s Strength " �We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.� -Margaret Mead "Opening our hearts to the mystery and meaning of our suffering can bring us into God's presence. Be grateful for this opportunity." -Mark Rosen "The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." -William Faulkner "Enlightenment must come little by little -- otherwise it would overwhelm." -Idries Shah "The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.� -Phillip James Bailey �We don�t laugh because we�re happy, we�re happy because we laugh.� -William James "Laughter is like the human body wagging its tail.� -Anne Wilson Schaef "The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people�s expectations.� -Julie Cameron "For all those years you�ve protected the seed. It�s time to become the beautiful flower.� -Stephen C. Paul "You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.� -Dale Carnegie "Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.� -Walter Anderson "Our purpose is hidden in our joy, our inspiration, our excitement. As we act on what shows up in our life our purpose shows up.� -James King "The blank page gives us the right to dream.� -Baston Bachelard "Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.� -Henriette Anne Klauser "I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.� -Virginia Satir "Recognize that life is what you get when you�re born ... living is what you do with it.� -Jim Allen "If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.� -Dr. Norman Vincent Peale "Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.� -Mike Wickett "When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams.� -John-Roger and Peter McWilliams "The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.� -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe "To weep is to make less the depth of grief.� -William Shakespeare "A person�s worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having.� -Alice Mary Hilton "I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.� -Erica Jong �Employ the power of positive quitting. Most of us view quitting as something negative, but it�s not. �Winners never quit,� we�re told, when, in reality, winners quit all the time: choosing to stop doing things that aren�t creating the results they desire. When you quit all the things that aren�t working for you, when you quit tolerating all the negative things that hold you back, you�ll create a positive �charge� in your life as well as create the space in your life for more positive experiences.� -Jim Allen "When we blame, we give away our power.� -Greg Anderson "Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.� -Richard Carlson "Asking for help doesn�t mean that we are weak or incompetent. It usually indicates an advanced level of honesty and intelligence.� -Anne Wilson Schaef "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.� -Epictetus "Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.� -Sir J. Lubbock "People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.� -Joseph F. Newton "We have to decide for ourselves what�s nourishing to our souls, and do those things over others.� -Thomas Moore "It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.� -Sydney J. Harris "I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.� -Rita Mae Brown "Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.� -Chuck Knox "If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us�� -John Bunyan "Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.� -Bill Copeland "Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.� -Maxwell Maltz "No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.� -George Eliot "The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.� -Barbara Kingsolver "I�d gone through life believing in the strength and competence of others; never in my own. �I discovered that my capacities were real.� -Joan Mills "We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.� -Orison Swett Marden "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.� -Nathaniel Hawthorne "�Changing yourself to fit what you think other people want doesn�t work. Pretending to be someone other than yourself only broadens the distance between the person you are and the one with whom you�re trying to establish closeness.� -Mary Manin Morrissey "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.� -Janis Joplin "� the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they �� -Dinah Mulock �Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others� Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.� -Katherine Mansfield �By words the mind is winged� -Aristophanes �Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.� -Eleanor Roosevelt "What message did you most need to hear? Review the following messages and note if any one touches you more strongly than the others." 1. "You are good." 2. "You are wanted." 3. "You are loved for yourself." 4. "You are seen for who you are." 5. "Your needs are not a problem." 6. "You are safe." 7. "You will be taken care of." 8. "You will not be betrayed." 9. "Your presence matters.� "There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.� -Hodding Carter "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.� -Agnes Repplier "Strive to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. �to be too wise for worry� to be too courageous to be fearful. In short, to be happy.� -Unknown "We are what we believe we are.� -Benjamin N. Cardozo "Success means fulfilling your own dreams, singing your own song, dancing your own dance, creating from your heart and enjoying the journey, trusting that whatever happens, it will be OK. Creating your own adventure!� -Elana Lindquist "What we see depends mainly on what we look for.� -Sir John Lubbock "Character isn�t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action...� -Helen Douglas �The smallest change in perspective can transform a life.� -Oprah �It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside of the frame.� -Unknown �What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.� -Abraham H. Maslow "To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.� -Gail Sheehy "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust� Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.� -e. e. cummings �Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you judge everything you see. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.� -Nancy Kerrigan "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming �WOO HOO what a ride!" -Unknown "There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, The other is as though everything is a miracle. I believe in the latter.� -Albert Einstein �Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.� -Victor Hugo "It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning." -P.D. Ospensky "By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The non-existent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired." -Nikos Kazantzakis "What you bring forth out of yourself from the inside will save you. What you do not bring forth out of yourself from the inside will destroy you." -Gospel of Thomas �No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.� -Source Unknown �Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.� -Denis Waitley "The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." -Oliver Wendell Holmes "A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child." -Unknown Author �Promise Yourself ... to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. ...To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.� -Drawn from the Optimist Creed of the Optimist International Club �Inside every older person is a younger person--wondering what the hell happened.� -Cora Harvey Armstrong "A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child." -Unknown Author �All the people we call �geniuses� are men and women who somehow escaped having to put that curious, wondering child in themselves to sleep.� -Barbara Sher �Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning how to dance in the rain�� -Author Unknown "Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self." -Maxwell Maltz "To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling." -Jean Shinoda Bolen "If you are afraid of being alone, you are dependent on others for your sense of self, and if you are dependent on others, you block your receptivity to inner guidance. Being willing to be alone involves being willing to be different, to have commitments and values that don�t blend with any crowd." -Ingrid Bacci "He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much." -Elbert Hubbard "Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are." -Julia Cameron |
| These are quotes I have collected over the years. All of them mean something special to me. They have touched me in some way, by motivation or inspiration. Most of the quotes have come from higherawareness.com. Check back once in awhile; I'll add new ones as I come across them. |
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