Quotes & Questions

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
~ Desmond Tutu

Adversity is our teacher. When we view adversity as a guide towards greater inner growth, we will then learn to accept the wisdom our soul came into this life to learn.
~ Barbara Rose

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised.
~ Andrew Murray

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.
~Barbara De Angelis

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
~ John C. Maxwell

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
~ Brian Tracy

The future is uncertain… but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.
~ Ilya Prigogine

True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature.
― Robert McKee

Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
~ Nolan Bushnell

And just when the darkness
became too much to bear
and the struggle too hard,
the light broke through
and the caterpillar emerged
a butterfly
delicate but unbroken,
wild and gentle,
finally free to spread its lovely wings
and fly away on the wind.
― L.R. Knost