You Didn't Realize What Hardships Brings

"They did not realize that their hardships helped them build courage, character and strength and that by giving their children too much with too little effort on their part, their children did not have the opportunity to build the same qualities."

-- H. Stephen Glenn


"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

-- Mother Teresa


"The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."

-- Henry Miller

Our Mind and Body Are The Same

"The mind and body are parts of the same system. Our thoughts constantly affect our breathing, muscles, etc., which in turn affect our thinking. Control your thoughts and you control your body."

-- Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner


"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

-- Copernicus


"Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

Those Who Ceases From Growth

"Life without progress becomes unendurable, and the person who ceases from growth must either become imbecile or insane. The greater and more harmonious and well rounded his growth, the happier man will be."

-- Wallace D. Wattles


"I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible."

-- William James


"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

-- Niels Bohr

Play Now Pay Later, Pay Now Play Later

"Play now, pay later. Pay now, play later. We teach this to six-year-olds. How much better our adult lives would be if we would always live it out ourselves."

-- Henry Cloud


"Walking is man's best medicine."

-- Hippocrates


"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."

-- Aart Van Der Leeuw

Decision Making Bring Mind Order

"The person who makes the decision to strengthen these mental muscles receives as their reward what is often considered a charmed life.  You can virtually eliminate conflict and confusion in your life by becoming proficient in making decisions. Decision making brings order to your mind. And of course this order is reflected in your objective world, your results."

-- Bob Proctor


"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections."

-- Katherine Paterson

Believe and You Shall Receive

"The most wonderful thing to know is this: Imagine the end desired and feel its reality; then the infinite life principle will respond to your conscious choice and your conscious request. This is the meaning of the text - believe you have received, and you shall receive."

-- Joseph Murphy


"Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life."

-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi


"There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come."

-- Victor Hugo

Life is Huge, Rejoice It

"Life is huge!  Rejoice about the sun, moon, flowers and sky.  Rejoice about the food you have to eat.  Rejoice about the  body that houses your spirit.  Rejoice about the fact that you can be a positive force in the world around you.  Rejoice about the love that is around you.  If you want to be happy, commit to making your life one of rejoicing."

-- Susan Jeffers


"The responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands. If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right."

-- Eknath Easwaran


"Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly."

-- George MacDonald

Use Circumstances To Aid Progress

"What measures us, what reveals us, is how we use those circumstances as an aid or spur to progress. A successful person or community, in short, is one who is most efficient at processing failure."

-- James Allen


"Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten -- it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging."

-- Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee


"Time is not a line, but a series of now points."

-- Taisen Deshimaru

You Are Today Because of Your Past Thinking

"We are today the result of our past thinking, and we shall be what we are thinking today.  The Law of Attraction is bringing to us not the things we should like, or the things we wish for, or the things someone else has, but it brings us “our own”— the things which we have created by our thought processes, whether consciously or unconsciously."

-- Charles F. Haanel


"To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling."

-- Jean Shinoda Bolen


"Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!"

-- Les Brown

Kill Boredom

"Boredom will eat away at your persistence and resolve. No one can do the same job, requiring the same tasks, with perpetual interest and enthusiasm.  When evaluating a job opportunity, don’t just worry about the salary and workload; investigate how much variety there is in the tasks you’ll perform."

-- David Niven


"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

-- Alan Watts


"The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place."

-- David Brower