Quotes & Questions

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
~ Albert Einstein

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one’s whole being, is that you alone control nothing.
~ Henry Miller

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

Our minds and hearts are like filaments that connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities.
~ Marianne Williamson

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
~ Eustace Budgell

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
~ Gautama Buddha

Don’t let others define you. Don’t let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.
~ Michael Josephson

Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds … it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors.
~ James F. Bell, III

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
~Jacob Bronowski

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
~ Winston Churchill