Quotes & Inspiration

Go back a little to leap further.

If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

Once you have missed the first buttonhole you'll never manage to button up.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. Choose now. Choose well.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which they were created.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is try just one more time.

Compassion should constitute the leading edge of our service to God, each other and a broken world.

I've seen the needle and the damage done. A little part of it in everyone. But every junkie's like a settin' sun.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.

Transformation is not in the future, can never be in the future. It can only be now, from moment to moment. The First and Last Freedom.

And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny.

When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher. Life is already filled with those who want to bring you down.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.