People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
-Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
-Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
-Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
-Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
Resolving conflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment and appreciation of differences.
-Thomas Crum
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
-King Whitney Jr.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
-Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004