Quotes...

You are now in control of your life. You see, the ego is never in control. The ego is controlled by wishes for comfort and convenience on the part of the body, by demands of the mind, and by outbursts of the emotions. But the higher nature controls the body and the mind and the emotions. I can say to my body, "Lie down there on that cement floor and go to sleep," and it obeys. I can say to my mind, "Shut out everything else and concentrate on this job before you," and it's obedient. I can say to my emotions, "Be still, even in the face of this terrible situation," and they are still. It's a different way of living. The philosopher Thoreau wrote: If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps he hears a different drummer. And now you are following a different drummer--the higher nature instead of the lower. - Peace Pilgrim

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? - Vincent van Gogh

Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso

There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being. - Albert Einstein

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. - Carl W. Buechner

If you do something good, enjoy it, repeat it, and allow it to become a way of life. (Bad Conduct, v118)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. - Frank Crane

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. - Thomas Berger