SELECTED QUOTES

1. “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.” - Martha Graham

2. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" - Anais Nin

3. "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult" - Seneca

4. "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is a reaction, both of them are transformed"   - C.J. Jung

5. "I shut my eyes in order to see" - Paul Gauguin

6. "The most potent muse of all is our own inner child" - Stephen Nachmanovitch

7. "A problem cannot be solved from the same state of consciousness it was created in" - Albert Einstein

8. "Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up" - Pablo Picasso

9. "The reason people have problems is that they have too much time to think" - Dr Richard Bandler

10. "Do not fear going forward slowly, fear only to stand still" - Chinese Proverb

11. "One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time" - Andre Gide

12. "The limits of my language are the limits of my world" - Ludwig Wittgenstein

13. "Whether or not you think you can or you can't, you are right" - Henry Ford

14. "Our greatest fear is not that we are weak, it is that we are powerful beyond measure" - Marianne Williamson

15. "Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday" - Mark Twain

16. “The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money” - Unknown

17. "Be the change you want to see in the world" - Mahattaman Gandhi

18. "There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever" - Mahattaman Gandhi

19. “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. "When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently"- Clark Moustakas

21. "The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind"- Clark Moustakas

22. "Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose" - Carl G. Jung

23. "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't" - Richard Bach

24. "The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work" - Richard Bach

25. "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at" - Bruce Lee

26. "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine"

- Bruce Lee

27. "Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are" - Muhammad Ali

28. "I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion" " - Muhammad Ali

29. "The man who has no imagination has no wings" - Muhammad Ali

30. "Boredom is rage spread thin" - Paul Tillich

31. "Brains aren't designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will" - Dr Richard Bundler (founder of NLP)

32. "Memories are like holograms: you recreate in your head the whole image of something which isn't there" - Dr Richard Bandler

33. "Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, <<grow, grow>>" - The Talmud

34. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind" - Dr Seuss

35. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the conditions that surround him... The unreasonable man adapts surrounding conditions to himself... All progress depends on the unreasonable man" - G. B. Shaw

36. "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us" - Joseph Campbell

37. "You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky

38. "Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down" - Ray Bradbury

39. "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself" - Joseph Campbell

40. "Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain" - Joseph Campbell

41. "Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before" - Joseph Campbell

42. "Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny" - Paul Tillich

43. "Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses" - Hannah Arendt

44. "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind" - Mohandas Gandhi

45. "A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes" - Mohandas Gandhi

46. "Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances" - Mohandas Gandhi

47. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong" - Mohandas Gandhi

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