Words of Wisdom: A Pathway to New Vision

New quotes added March 7, 2013



I am God's creation. I don't need to be what I am not.

~author unknown


Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

~Epictetus



I’ve learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

~Maya Angelou



Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

~Martin Luther King


A soulmate is one to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and the communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a Divine Grace.

~Thomas Moore


The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. 

The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. 

This is the day your life really begins. 

~Bob Moawad


Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. 

~Martin Luther King Jr.


It does no good to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

~Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


It is not our abilities that determine who we are. It is our choices.

~Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets


Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.

~Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


We all must make the choice between what is right and what is easy. You are not alone. 

~Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

~Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix


There is no light without the dark. Myself, I always try to live within the light. I suggest you do the same.

~Professor Horace Slughorn in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


Harry Potter: You talk about wands, as if they have feelings, can think.
Mr. Ollivander: The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. That much has always been clear to those of us who have studied wand law.

~Dialogue of Harry Potter and Mr. Ollivander from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II


Make your mess your message...

~Robin Roberts


Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us - but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.

~unknown


There are neither Jews nor Greeks, slaves nor free people, males nor females. You are all the same in Christ Jesus.

~The Apostle Paul


Wholeheartedness is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It's like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you don't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.

~Pema Chödrön
The Wisdom of No Escape


My friends believe I’m crazy. But I am not. I am just the person they would be if they weren’t so scared. 

~ Johnny Depp


For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

~The Apostle Paul


Live your life from your heart. Share your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

~Melanie Beattie


The Church should be a place for all the broken, not just the "holy."

~unknown


Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

~Dr. Seuss


Actually, we have no problems - we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.

~Edgar Cayce


Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

~The Apostle Paul


...more kindness, less ignorance.

~from The Holy One by Susan Trott


Vulnerability is the most accurate measure of courage.

~Brene Brown


To live content with small means; 
to seek elegance rather than luxury; 
and refinement rather than fashion; 
to be worthy, not respectable; 
and wealthy, not rich; 
...to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; 
to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; 
to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; 
in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. 
This is to be my symphony.

~ William Ellery Channing


Normal day, let me be aware
of the treasure that you are.
let me learn from you, love you,
bless you before we depart.
Let me not pass you by in quest
of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
let me hold you while I may,
for it may not be always so. one day
I shall dig my nails into the earth,
or bury my face in the pillow,
or stretch myself tart,
or raise my hands
to the sky and want, more
than all the world, your return.

~Mary Jean Iron


Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be the shelter for each other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth for the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before. Go now to your dwelling place to enter into the days of your life together. And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves. When frustration, difficulty and fear assail your relationship - as they threaten all relationships at one time or another - remember to focus on what is right between you, not only the part which seems wrong. In this way, you can ride out the storms when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives - remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun is still there. And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight.

~Apache Blessing


Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose.

~The Prophet Jeremiah


We must make it clear that a platform of "I hate gay men and women" is not a way to become president of the United States of America.

~Jimmy Carter, 1996


Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

~Barack Obama


Perhaps we are looking to the natural for answers when we should be looking to the supernatural.

~Jim Dando


Always thinking delays the revelation.

~Jim Dando


"Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that's why he never understands anything."

~Pooh in "The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Huff


There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

~Maya Angelou


When another person suffers, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help.

~Thich Naht Hanh


Wisdom is not knowing but being. The wise heart is not one that understands everything—it is the heart that can tolerate the truth of not knowing.

~Jack Kornfield


We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbor, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.

~ J.R.R. Tolkien


You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe, a harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.

~Wizard from the movie August Rush


Look deep into nature, and then you will be able to understand everything better.

~Albert Einstein


The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

~Henry David Thoreau



I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

~Maya Angelou


I am only one, 
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything, 
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

~Edward Everett Hale


Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

~Albert Schweitzer, French philosopher, physician, and musician (Nobel 1952)


Change your thoughts and you change your world.

~Norman Vincent Peale


I am grateful that love exists: familial love, (love between relatives), romantic love (a passion between lovers), agape love (divine love between God and friends), love of nature (the majesty of mountains, the lasting love of oceans) and the joy of laughter. We are stronger, kinder and more generous because we live in an atmosphere where love exists. I am grateful for that.

~Maya Angelou


Stop looking for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security or love-- you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

~Eckhart Tolle