July 2006 Quotes

"Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time."

-- Asha Tyson

“If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.”

-- Doug Horton

"Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move."

-- Betty Eadie

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

-- E. E. Cummings

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

-- C.G. Jung

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

-- Aristotle

"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives."

-- J. Michael Straczynski

"Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

-- Chinese Proverb

"The realization that another person wishes to harm and hurt you cannot undermine genuine compassion, a compassion based on the clear recognition of that person as someone who has the natural and instinctual desire to seek happiness and overcome suffering, just like oneself."

-- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience."

-- Henry Miller

"Life is complex. Each one of us must make his own path through life. There are no self-help manuals, no formulas, no easy answers. The right road for one is the wrong road for another ... The journey of life is not paved in blacktop; it is not brightly lit, and it has no road signs. It is a rocky path through the wilderness."

-- M. Scott Peck

"I do only want to advise you to keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke