"Fortune sides with him who dares."
-Virgil
Truth
“I am not devaluing thoughts. Just do not mix up what we think with what actually is.”
-Taizan Maezumi Roshi
God
“Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Kali or Allah, you actually worship the one Light that is also in you, since It pervades all things.”
-Anandamoyi Ma
Joyfulness
"Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?"
-Theodore Martin Hesburgh
Openness
"That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Improvement
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
-Plutarch
Enlightenment
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
-Plato
Happiness
"Learn to carry all the conditions of happiness within yourself... Whatever your environment is, don’t allow your inner peace to be touched by it."
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Service
"We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
-Ronald Reagan
Opportunity
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
-Helen Keller
Desire
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
-Dalai Lama
Attitude
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
-Norman Vincent Peale
Productivity
"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Self-Esteem
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
-Alice Walker
Perseverance
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
-Henry Ford
Perseverance
"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
-Jimmy Dean
Self-Esteem
"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Uniqueness
"You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you."
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Depth
"In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle."
-Swami Sri Yukteswar
Problems
"Solve all your problems through meditation."
-Lahiri Mahasaya
