"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

-- Lao Tzu

"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become."

-- James Lane Allen (1849-1925)

"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."

-- Joshua L. Liebman

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."

~Carl Jung

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

-- Lao Tzu

"They know enough who know how to learn."

~Henry Brooks Adams

Earth teach me stillness
as the grasses are stilled with light.
Earth teach me suffering
as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility
as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring
as the mother who secures her young.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands all alone.
Earth teach me limitation
as the ant which crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom
as the eagle which soars in the sky.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness
as dry fields weep with rain.

~ Ute Prayer

"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know."

-- Joseph Conrad

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

-- Chinese proverb

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

-- Jack London

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

-- Charles Du Bos

"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others."

-- David Seabury

"Everything in life has meaning. The bigger the fall, the greater the lesson."
~ Oprah Winfrey

"There are no short cuts to any place worth going."

-- Beverly Sills

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing… the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is to do nothing."
by Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don’t be cool.Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort."

~ from Bruce Mau Design's "Incomplete Manifesto"