"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." -- Frank A. Clark

"Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart." -- Caryn Leschen

"Embrace fully your capacity to create, to think in unlimited ways, and to pursue everything that you have been wanting. Be flexible, open and willing to let the new come to you. "This can be the most joyous, prosperous, and creative time of your life." -- Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer

"True self simply refers to the aspect of our being that is completely aware of its expanded nature no matter what we may be experiencing in our lives." -- Martia Nelson

"... no matter what our difficulties may be, we recognize that there is a deep untroubled stream flowing below all surface troubles and that we are of one substance with that stream. The soul knows no difficulties." -- James Thornton

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." -- Alvin Toffler

"All the people we call ‘geniuses’ are men and women who somehow escaped having to put that curious, wondering child in themselves to sleep." -- Barbara Sher

"Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent." If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states." -- Eknath Easwaran

"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable." -- Leo C. Rosten

"A lean purse is easier to cure than endure." -- George S. Clason

"I've got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock." -- Henny Youngman

"Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in." -- Ted Cook

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings." -- Hodding Carter

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." -- Katherine Mansfield

"Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." -- Dinah Mulock

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"You cannot fake a relationship and feel right with yourself or anyone else. Changing yourself to fit what you think other people want doesn’t work. Pretending to be someone other than yourself only broadens the distance between the person you are and the one with whom you’re trying to establish closeness." -- Mary Manin Morrissey

"We must let ourselves feel all the painful destruction we want to forgive rather than swallow it in denial. If we do not face it, we cannot choose to forgive it." -- Kenneth McNoll

"We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests ... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure ... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth! Masters of reality still meet us in dreams to tell us that we’ve never lost the shield we need against dragons, that blue-fire voltage arcs through us now to change our world as we wish. Intuition whispers true: We’re not dust, we’re magic!" -- Richard Bach

"...for magic to happen in your life, you must believe in magic." -- Grandmother, quoted by Lynn Andrews "Most of the time, we fall in love but can’t remain there. The world then calls the state we were in a delusion or infatuation... But we merely lacked, or someone else lacked, the emotional skills to hold on to the magic when the morning came. ...In truth, we can go to the moon and retain its magic for a lifetime." -- Marianne Williamson

"Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?" -- Eric Allenbaugh