Meister Eckhart

"Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership -- whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall...everything."

--Meister Eckhart

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Fr. Ralph Pfau

"You can’t be a good egg all your life --you either have to hatch or go bad."

--Fr. Ralph Pfau

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Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unimagined in common hours."

--Henry David Thoreau

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Leonardo da Vinci

"Oh Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort."

--Leonardo da Vinci

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Marcel Proust

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

--Marcel Proust

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Ellen Glasgow

"No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it."

--Ellen Glasgow

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Agnes Replier

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

--Agnes Replier

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Soren Kierkegaard

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward."

--Soren Kierkegaard

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Benjamin Disraeli

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."

--Benjamin Disraeli

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Samuel Butler

"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."

--Samuel Butler

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Hosea Bellou

"There is no such thing as 'best' in the world of individuals."

--Hosea Bellou

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W. T. Grenfell

"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile."

--W. T. Grenfell

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whatever you can do, or think you can, begin it. Boldness had genius, power and magic in it."

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is greater than any material force, that thoughts rule the world."

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Carl Rogers

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."

--Carl Rogers

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Rossiter Worthington Raymond

"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limits of our sight."

--Rossiter Worthington Raymond

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Voltaire

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

--Voltaire

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Henry Van Dyke

"As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge."

--Henry Van Dyke

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Rabindranath Tagore

"God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing."

--Rabindranath Tagore

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Abraham Lincoln

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."

--Abraham Lincoln

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George Bernard Shaw

"People are always blaming their circumstances for being what they are. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them."

--George Bernard Shaw

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Matthew Arnold

"Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery."

--Matthew Arnold

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Edwin Markham on Life

"Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

--Edwin Markham

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Friedrich Nietzsche

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."

--Friedrich Nietzsche

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Saul Bellow

"A man is only as good as what he loves."

--Saul Bellow

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Jose Ortega y Gasset

"Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by an indomitable urge to extend its boundaries."

--Jose Ortega y Gasset

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James M. Barrie

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he hoped to make it."

--James M. Barrie

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