Inspiring Quotes
“Sometimes the greatest adventure is simply a conversation” -Amadeus Wolfe
“I felt I have not the right to change another if I am not open to be changed by him” -Martin Buber
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? -Mary Oliver
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us." -Nelson Mandela
“To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." -E. E. Cummings
“Find out who you are, then do it on purpose” -Dolly Parton
“It is never too late to be what you might have been” -George Elliot
“Life is short. If there is anything worse than not reaching your goals, it’s setting goals too low and reaching them.” -Bishop William Willimon
“How we spend our days, is how we spend our lives” -Anne Dillard
“You Miss 100% of the shots you never take.” -Wayne Gretzky
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does!” -William James
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts”-Winston Churchill
“Confidence, they say, is the product of competence, and competence comes from three things: practice, practice, practice.” -Paul Solotaroff
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom." -Viktor Frankl
“For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
“Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites.” -Brene Brown
“Love is work and courage” -Scott Peck
“In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.” -Brennan Manning
“We see because we have been seen. And love because we have been loved.” -Cynthia Anderson
“A major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.” -Scott Peck
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” -Victor Hugo
“Without love we fall ill.” -Sigmund Freud
“You can run fast alone, but you can run far together.” -an African Proverb
“People trapped in miserable lives always talk about escaping. Few actually do it. It’s easier to just close your eyes and pretend the misery doesn’t exist.” -The Mentalist
“The more we avoid our pain, the more entrenched it becomes.” -Paul Solotaroff
“The best way out is always through.” -Robert Frost
“If our pain doesn’t destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.” -Fredrick Buechner
“I can be changed by what happens to me. I refuse to be reduced by it.” -Maya Angelou
“Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn’t. Shame doesn’t. Being heard does.” -Anne Lamott
“Your feelings are mentionable and manageable” -Fred Rogers
“Psychotherapy to a great extent involves a grieving process. Figuring out what can be changed, and what must be mourned. Good grief, liberates you and enables you to live a more abundant life. Bad grief, attaches you and you become stuck.” -Dr. Michael Leffel
“The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.” -C.S. Lewis
“The difference between rats and people is that when a rat gets shocked at one end of a maze, he never goes there again” -B.F. Skinner
“We lose our minds when we can’t think creatively.” -Roy Barsness
“Don’t wonder why people go crazy, wonder what makes them not. Wonder what keeps them together.” -Grey’s Anatomy
“Sometimes grace works like water wings when you feel you are sinking” -Anne Lamott
"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” -Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh
“And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful, than the risk it took to Blossom.” -Anais Nin
“We are the potential saints for future generations. We are the shoulders on which others will stand. Will we be ancestors who sat on their hands or ancestors who raised their hands?” -Mary W. Anderson
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world” -Gandhi
“We’ve got so much work to do/And I see light around the bend/On the mend” -May Erlewine