friday quotes

Never, if possible, lie down at night without being able to say: I have made one human being, at least, a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day.

- Charles Kingsley

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

- Jack Kornfield

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

- Anne Lamott

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

- Latin proverb

A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life.

- Celia Luce

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

- Maxwell Maltz

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.

- Peyton Conway March

Trust that still, small voice that says, "This might work and I'll try it."

- Diane Mariechild

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

- Abraham Maslow

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

- Henri Matisse

Love may be what keeps the world spinning 'round, but friendship is what keeps us from throwing ourselves off it.

- David R. Mead

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

- Bernard Meltzer

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

- Thomas Merton

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

- Molière

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

- Alfred A. Montapert

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

- Keshavan Nair

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

- Jawaharial Nehru

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

- Earl Nightingale

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

- Anais Nin

There is a divinity that shapes our ends -- but we can help by listening for Its voice.

- Kathleen Norris