“The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behaviours affect the rights and well being of others.”
- Sharon Anthony Bower, author

"God is hiding in the world. Our task is to let the divine emerge from
our deeds."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"All creatures bring into this world the memory of justice."
- J. M. Coetzee

"First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do."
~ Epiticus

"Be proud to be a Size Hero, not a size zero!"
~ Gok Wan

"Time on your hands, your self on your mind."
~ English Saying

"Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well."
-- Danish proverb

"Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he
more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the Gods'
gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor
more than death."
-- Horace (65-8 BC)

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the
winds long to play with your hair."
- Kahlil Gibran

"I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much,
talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often,
lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and
breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that
utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant who I also harbor and who
would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my
fool."
~ Theodore I. Rubin

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated
through you into action. And because there is only one you in all time,
this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through
any other medium - the world will not have it. It is not your business
to determine how good it is, now how valuable, nor how it compares with
other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and
directly, to keep the channel open."
- Martha Graham