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These quotes are part of the Living in Harmony compilation. Chapters:
1) Foundation Building: Growing Spiritually, Living Fully in Our Bodies, & Inviting Nature into Our Lives
2) Mindful Living: Living Mindfully Each Day, Blooming into Ourselves, Simplifying, Living Out Our Inner Vision, & Living Out Our Global Vision
3) Living in Community
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. Henry David Thoreau
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. Buddha
True morality consists not in following the beaten track but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it. Mahatma Gandhi
Somewhere deep down in us is stored the secret, and when we are digging in the wrong place, we know it. The secret wants to be discovered and will not let us go in peace a way that is not ours. Elizabeth O'Conner
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. Plato
If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me. Peace Pilgrim
All you need to do to receive guidance is to ask for it and then listen. Sanaya Roman
But how do we connect to that passion? . . .we need to pay "exquisite attention" to our responses to things--noticing what makes our flame grow brighter. If we pay attention to those things, we'll be able to catch the flame and feed it. Nina Simons
If you observe well, your own heart will answer. De Lubicz
If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track, which has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Joseph Campbell
Let the beauty we love be what we do. Rumi
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West
I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart. John Ruskin
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare
Only when my vocation and my avocation
Make two eyes as one in sight
Is the work ever really done
For heaven and the future's sake. Robert Frost
What I do is me; for that I came. Gerald Manley Hopkins
Let go the things in which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt. Mohammed
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world--making the most of one's best. Harry Emerson Fosdick
Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him....Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Ralph Waldo Emerson
...I shall cease to be useful as soon as I cease to be myself. Mahatma Gandhi
Do not try to imitate the lark or the nightingale, if you can't do it. If it's your destiny to croak like a toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you! Louis-Ferdinand Céline
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Marianne Williamson
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize. Norman Vincent Peale
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson/Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Marianne Williamson
Every child is born a genius. Richard Buckminster Fuller
You never know what you can do till you try. William Cobbett/Frederick Marryat/English Proverb
If you had a different concept of yourself, everything would be different. Neville
To become capable, one must have faith in oneself. Indira Gandhi
Watch my dust. Babe Ruth
Self-trust is the first secret to success. Ralph Waldo Emerson
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. Claudia Black
What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can give you better advice than yourself. Cicero
Men do not know themselves, and therefore they do not understand things of their inner world. Each man has the essence of God and all the wisdom and power of the world in himself... Paracelsus
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. Marva Collins
Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason. Thomas Jefferson
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. [It is] the only true guide you'll ever have. Howard Thurman
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading--It vexes me to choose another guide... Emily Brontë
Time and again in my life, contrary to all wise counsels, I have allowed myself to be guided by the inner voice - often with spectacular success. Mahatma Gandi
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If man act in accordance with what is dictated to him by his reason, his conscience, and his God, only the very best can result for himself as well as for the world. Leo Tolstoy
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. John Anster in adaptation of Goethe's "Faust"
To have begun is to have done half the task... Horace
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more. Robert Collier
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. Jack Canfield
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. W. H. Murray
Leap, and the net will appear. Julie Cameron
Start a huge, foolish project,
like Noah.
It makes absolutely no
difference what people
think of you. Rumi
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life. Anne Lamott
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
I believe that the very essence of a worthwhile life is in the striving. I do not fear the possibility of failure so much as the resigned acceptance of what is mediocre or wrong. Jimmy Carter
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. Ornette Coleman
...only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again. Wangari Maathai
I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. Albert Einstein
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. Rabindranath Tagore
You learn from mistakes - no one was born a master. Swiss Proverb
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. Robert C. Gallagher
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags alone are not so dangerous--it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on. Anne Shannon Monroe
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Wally Amos
Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go. Catherine Marshall
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. Rabindranath Tagore
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Jerry Chin
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. Thomas Paine
Make up your mind that you are not going to allow anything to discourage you. Marian Wright Edelman
Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do. Wangari Maathai
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. Nelson Mandela
Keep away from small 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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams
Never give in; never give in; never, never, never, never, never--in nothing great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Winston Churchill
We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough. Hellen Keller
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge
All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall. Vivekandanda
If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try again;
Then your courage should appear,
For, if you will persevere,
You will conquer, never fear;
Try, try again. Anonymous
If you dream it, have faith in it, and struggle for it--as long as it takes. Marian Wright Edelman
And don't pretend you know where you are going. Because if you know where you are going, that means you've been there and you're going to end up exactly where you came from. Naomi Newman
You have to set sail on another ocean
without star or compass
going where the argument leads
Shattering the certainties of centuries. Janet Kalven
I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived. Anna Louise Strong
If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. Saint John of the Cross
When you step into the unknown, you are on the right path--the road less traveled. Enjoy every moment of the journey. Joey Green
A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. Oliver Cromwell
A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. Oliver Cromwell
Just when you think you've achieved something, you realize you've achieved nothing. And still you have to go forward just the same - toward a dream so distant that your road has neither beginning nor end. Indira Gandhi
