“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
M. Scott Peck
“Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man
does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he
deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see
that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his
actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits;
that relation and connection are not somewhere and
sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany,
no exemption, no anomaly, but method, and an
even web; and what comes out, that was put in.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No matter who or what made you what you have become, that doesn’t release you from the responsibility of making yourself over into what you ought to be.”
- Ashley Mantagu
“I believe that you’re great; that there is something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life,
regardless of how young or how old you think you might be,
the moment you begin to think properly that something that is within you – there’s power within you that’s greater than the world – it will begin to emerge.
It will take over your life.
It will feed you.
It will clothe you.
It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence if you let it.
Now that is what I know for sure.â€
- Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith, in The Secret Video
“Whoever we are, and in whatever circumstances we face – and for nearly all of us, they will be common and ordinary ones – the possibility of happiness surrounds us. We are always in the right place, though we do our best to forget it.”
- Richard Schoch, The Secrets of Happiness, p. 210
“You should not be satisfied with being a victim, nor with being a survivor. You should aim to be a conquerer. There is an extraordinary quality of spirit that leads one to aspire to conquering rather than surviving. I hope you discover that spirit in yourself.”
- Dr. Laura Schlessinger
