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It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine De Sainte-Exupery

We shall not cease from exploration, and in the end of all our exploring we will arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. TS Eliot

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. Wim Wenders

Nothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg

He is able who thinks he is able. Gautama Buddha

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.Indira Gandhi

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Under all that we think, lives all we believe , like the ultimate veil of our spirits. Antonio Machado

Meditation is a way of clearing away the mental clutter that surrounds the subconscious. And when our minds are clear, we can see and experience the joy of our own soul. Gurmukh

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller

He who knows others is wise, he who knows himself is enlightened. Lao Tzu

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. Emmet Fox

Each of us is inevitable;Each of us is limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth;Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth;Each of us here as divinely as any is here. Walt Whitman

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is with the heart that one sees rightly ; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine De Sainte-Exupery, The Little Prince

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion. Carl Jung

We know too much and feel too little. At least we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs. Bertrand Russell

Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy. Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius

Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. A. W. Tozer (1897 - 1963)

The belief that becomes truth for me is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action. Andre Gide

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. Orison Swett Marden

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Henry Ward Beecher

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius

We shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. Eleanor Roosevelt, American diplomat and author.

To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the ‘music,’ but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind’s hearing to your ears’ natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.Peter Senge

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