Quotes on Life

You are always connected to Source. Wherever you are, wherever you go, you are always connected to Divine Wisdom, Divine Intelligence, and Divine Love.

You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.

Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.