"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something."

Buscaglia, Leo on Change
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"But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette."

Thurber, James on Spirit and Spirituality
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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Inheritance
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"When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first."

Franklin, Benjamin on Mistakes
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"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."

Franklin, Benjamin on Argument
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"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face."

Franklin, Benjamin on Argument
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"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."

Franklin, Benjamin on Anger
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Action
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"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."

Hansen, Mark Victor on Action
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"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Prayer
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"A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings."

Allen, James on Environment
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"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Allen, James on Destiny
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"Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime."

Peterson, Wilferd A. on Spirit and Spirituality
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?"

Michelangelo on Spirit and Spirituality
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"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."

Schweitzer, Albert on Spirit and Spirituality
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"In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on."

Suzuki, Daisetz T. on Spirit and Spirituality
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"Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world."

Unknown, Source on Spirit and Spirituality
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"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves."

Einstein, Albert on Spirit and Spirituality
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"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit."

Wolfe, Thomas on Spirit and Spirituality
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"A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."

Twain, Mark on Habit
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"Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Duty
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"Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Drugs
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on Hope
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"To change and change for the better are two different things"

Proverb, German on Change
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"Everything changes, nothing remains without change."

Buddha on Change
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"Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies."

Kennedy, Robert F. on Change
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"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order."

Whitehead, Alfred North on Progress
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

Shan, Merle on Love
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"The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation."

Greer, Germaine on Family
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"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thich Nhat Hanh on Love
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"Never say goodbye, say farewell."

Unknown, Source on Farewells
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"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Beattie, Melody on Gratitude
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Expectation
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Dissatisfaction
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"The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."

Hutchins, Robert M. on Education
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"If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?"

Unknown, Source on Education
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"School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them."

Illich, Ivan on School
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"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."

Kinder, Jack on Achievement
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"What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Arts and Artists
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"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors."

Alcott, Louisa May on Education
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