Quotes

'I want to keep my soul fertile for the changes, so things keep getting born in me, so things keep dying when it is time for things to die. I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made to figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently. Only the good stories have the characters different at the end than they were at the beginning. And the closest thing I can liken life to is a book, the way it stretches out on paper, page after page, as if to trick the mind into thinking it isn't all happening at once.' – Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

‘At the end of life, our questions are very simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?’ 
– Jack Kornfield

‘Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.’ – Source Unknown

‘Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.’ – Sarah Ban Breathnach

‘While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.’ 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘To brighten your life you must widen your heart. Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.’ – Goethe

‘Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.’ – Helen Keller

'Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.' – Lao Tzu

'Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.’ – Mark Twain

'Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.' – Kahlil Gibran 

'Do not ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.' 
– Harold Whitman 

'You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.' – Anonymous

'Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.’ 
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

'When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and you take the first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.' – Patrick Overton

‘Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.’ – Hui-Hai

‘Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.’ – Thomas Dewar

‘The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.’ 
–  Morrie Schwartz

‘Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.’ – Paul Boese 

'In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.' 
– Albert Camus

‘Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.' –  Kahlil Gibran