Quotes
The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. Only he who listens can speak.
— Dag Hammarskjold
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
— Albert Schweitzer
There is no tougher challenge that we face than to accept personal responsibility for not only what we are, but also what we can be.
— David McNally
When written in Chinese, the word “crisis” is composed of two characters — one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
— John F. Kennedy
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
— Henry L. Stimson
How much of your life do you spend looking forward to being somewhere else?
— Matthew Flickstein, “Journey to the Center”
True healing has more to do with listening and unconditional love than fixing people.
— Gerald Jampolsky & Diane V. Cirincione
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you’ll know exactly what to do.
— Michelle Ventor
Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
— Virginia Satir
Part of success is preparation on purpose.
Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he were surrounded with bread.
— Dostoyevsky
The whole of humanity is…one human family. This planet is our only home.
— His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Either we have hope within us or we don’t; it is a dimension of the soul. Hope in this deep and powerful sense is an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. It is also this hope, above all, which gives us the strength to live and continually to try new things, even in conditions that seem as hopeless as ours do here and now.
— Vlacav Havel
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?
— Robert Browning
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
The most probable assumption is that no currently working ‘business theory’ will be valid ten years hence.
— Peter Drucker
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.
— Charles Darwin
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
— Mark Twain
In the same way that someone in the midst of a rough crowd guards a wound with great care, so in the midst of bad company should one always guard the wound that is the mind.
— Santideva, “Bodhicaryavatar”
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
— Oliver Goldsmith
We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie
— Carl Jung
We learn to fly not by becoming fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
— Sam Keen
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids — all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
— Paul Tournier
Life is difficult.
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see
this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult — once we truly
understand and accept it — then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted,
the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
— M. Scott Peck (in The Road Less Traveled)
Humility is the strength of the strong and the weapon with which the wise conquer their foes.
— Tirukkural 99:985
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage
— Anais Nin
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
— James D. Miles
Courage is being scared to death — and saddling up anyway.
— John Wayne
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
— Ferdinand Foch
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
— Leo Buscaglia
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