Life lives us as much as we live Life.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D.

(EducationEducation) (2000)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

George Gilder

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Richard Nixon

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Leonardo da Vinci

Specialization is for insects.

Robert Heinlein

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient

Aristotle

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

Lin Yutang

The shorter my possession of life, the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Michel Montaigne

To affect the quality of the day that is the highest of the arts.

Henry David Thoreau

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist; and into them enters suffering in order that they may have existence.

raham Greene

All suffering prepares one for vision.

Martin Buber

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Goethe

Real generosity towards the future consists in giving all to what is present.

Albert Camus

Every situation - nay - every moment is of infinite worth for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

Goethe

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Charles Darwin

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell

Life lives us as much as we live Life.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (EducationEducation) (2000)

A dream that I dream alone is but only a dream. But a dream that we dream together is reality.

Raul Seixas

Feelings are the data of existence.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Love life more than the meaning of life.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.

Willis Harman

There are many paths but only one journey.

Naomi Judd

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Benjamin Franklin

...Something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

The mind is never at rest but always engaged in ever progressive motion. It is a restless creativity.

Robert Kegan

The very purpose of our life is happiness.

The Dalai Lama

Is the world all about the love of power, or the power of love.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (Education)

Questioning is the track on which the centered person moves.

Stephen Batchelor

The first rule of holes: When you are in one, stop digging.

Molly Ivins

The first responsibility of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

A change of meaning is a change of being.

David Bohm

It takes a certain amount of nonsense for sensibility to arise.

Alan Watts

Worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair, it gives you lots to do, but doesn't get you anywhere.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (Education)

If my devils were to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.

R. M. Rilke

Fear freezes freedom.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (Education)

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon

Money should be in the service of love.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (Education)

As death is so violent in taking away, so love is most violent in saving us.

Salley Vickers

It is by logic that we prove. But it is by intuition that we discover.

Henri Poincare

Belonging blossoms one's Being.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (Education)

I slipped, I stumbled, I fell. Yet by looking up, all was well. - Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (Education)

All real living is meeting.

Martin Buber

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

George Adams

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Hector Berlioz

Enthusiasm is contagious, be a carrier.

Susan Rabin

Coaching isn't therapy. It's product development, with you as the product.

Fast Company Magazine

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Science is but one meadow in the universal forest of mystery that surrounds it.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (Education)

The true philosopher's quest is to believe in nothing and worship everything.

Will Durant

Work exists for the refinement of character.

E. F. Schumaker

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit ? this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Johann von Goethe

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

R. M. Rilke

Against the irrationality of violence it is necessary to propose the irrationality of forgiveness.

Leonel Narvaez

A broken heart is an open heart.

Gretel Ehrlich

I am through you so I.

E. E. Cummings

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

R. D. Laing

Meditating befriends my mind.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (Education)

The way through suffering is to accept that the suffering exists within you.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (Education)

Ever desireless one sees the mystery, ever desiring one sees the manifestation.

The Tao

My religion is kindness.

The Dalai Lama

Human life begins on the far side of despair.

Orestes

Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

Patrick Henry

This is it; it is this; that is all.

Dan McKinnon, Registered Psychologist, Ph.D. - (Education)

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Alphonse Karr

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Forgiveness is making peace with your life even when you don't get what you want.

Fred Luskin

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

John Keats

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections.

John Keats

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

epitah on John Keat's gravestone

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Terence McKenna

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

Adam Phillips

An enemy is an economical way to form an identity.

Karen Horney

What is to give light must endure burning.

Viktor Frankl

Love all, trust few.

William Shakespeare

Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.

Rumi

We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself.

Carl Sagan

Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

Teilhard de Chardin

Magic is the definition that your ego can boss the world around.

Ken Wilber

Do not judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

R. L. Stephenson

Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Thurman Whitman

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

Friedrich Nietzche

Let your view be as vast and expansive as the sky. And let the mindfulness of your actions be as fine and precise as a grain of sand.

Tibetan Buddhist instruction to the Mahayana practitioner

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein

I don?t know what the fate of the human is, but I do know that if we make it, it will be because we tell our stories.

Pete Seeger

A paradox is a form of cubism in which you look at the same situation simultaneously from different directions.

Marshall McLuhan

Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Harold Thurman Whitman

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste

Paul Romer

Charity saves us from death

Ken Wilber

Anything that transcends eating, drinking and makin money must begin with a leap of faith

Sam Keen

We are evolution incarnate; we are her self-awareness

Howard Bloom

People cannot be until they are

Don Beck

Awareness in and of itself is curative

Fritz Perls

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting

Henry David Thoreau

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future

Paul Boese

Faith is a way of being that places your heart in the center of your life

Wayne Muller

What is not brought to consciousness comes to us as fate

Carl Jung