Image of Carl Sagan
A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.
- Carl Sagan
Collection: War
Image of Terry Pratchett
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Dreams
Image of Albert Schweitzer
Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
- Albert Schweitzer
Collection: Nature
Image of C. S. Lewis
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- C. S. Lewis
Image of Walt Disney
Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.
- Walt Disney
Collection: Dream
Image of Ratan Tata
Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.
- Ratan Tata
Collection: Community
Image of S. N. Goenka
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
- S. N. Goenka
Collection: Vipassana
Image of John C. Maxwell
Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
Image of Lin Yutang
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
- Lin Yutang
Collection: Business
Image of Soichiro Honda
Success is 99 percent failure.
- Soichiro Honda
Collection: Success
Image of Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Steve Harvey
Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.
- Steve Harvey
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Robert Murray M'Cheyne
I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.
- Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Collection: Employment
Image of Jorge Luis Borges
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Norman Vincent Peale
Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Collection: Positive
Image of Khaled Hosseini
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
- Khaled Hosseini
Collection: Life
Image of Blaise Pascal
Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.
- Blaise Pascal
Collection: Fear Not
Image of Andy Griffith
I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.
- Andy Griffith
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Jack London
I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
- Jack London
Collection: Thinking
Image of Ramana Maharshi
The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
- Ramana Maharshi
Collection: Wisdom
Image of Shunryu Suzuki
When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.
- Shunryu Suzuki
Collection: Respect
Image of Douglas Pagels
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
- Douglas Pagels
Collection: Success
Image of Adrian Rogers
Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!
- Adrian Rogers
Collection: Prayer
Image of Steve Martin
Or is it that I think too much?
- Steve Martin
Collection: Thinking
Image of Douglas Adams
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Business
Image of Charlotte Bronte
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
- Charlotte Bronte
Collection: Fighting
Image of Adrian Rogers
Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God.
- Adrian Rogers
Collection: Study
Image of Barbara Johnson
Choices not chance determine your destiny.
- Barbara Johnson
Collection: Destiny
Image of Dale Carnegie
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
- Dale Carnegie
Collection: Nature
Image of Rick Riordan
Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.
- Rick Riordan
Collection: Morning
Image of John Wesley
Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.
- John Wesley
Collection: Joy
Image of Dante Alighieri
Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.
- Dante Alighieri
Collection: People
Image of Meg Cabot
Looks can be deceiving.
- Meg Cabot
Collection: Looks
Image of Napoleon Hill
FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.
- Napoleon Hill
Collection: Men
Image of Myles Munroe
Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Relationship
Image of Louise Hay
I was born to enjoy life. And so it is.
- Louise Hay
Collection: Enjoy Life
Image of Henry David Thoreau
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Wise
Image of John Donne
No man is an island unto himself.
- John Donne
Collection: Men
Image of Zig Ziglar
When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.
- Zig Ziglar
Collection: Faith
Image of Aristotle
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
- Aristotle
Collection: Impossible
Image of George Carlin
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
- George Carlin
Collection: Love
Image of Gichin Funakoshi
There is no first strike in Karate.
- Gichin Funakoshi
Collection: Firsts
Image of Gabrielle Roth
There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.
- Gabrielle Roth
Collection: Self
Image of David Zindell
Self-creation is the highest art.
- David Zindell
Collection: Art
Image of Eckhart Tolle
Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness.
- Eckhart Tolle
Collection: Stories
Image of Howard Thurman
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
- Howard Thurman
Collection: Heart
Image of Chris Hedges
The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.
- Chris Hedges
Collection: Careers
Image of Nelson Mandela
An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Real
Image of John Lennon
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
- John Lennon
Collection: Inspirational