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PreviousThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
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