The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
~Anaias Nin

 
Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Never underestimate the power of groups of committed citizens to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.
~Margaret Mead

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

In the Garden of my heart, the flower of peace blooms beautifully.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

Perseverence is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
~Plutarch

To breathe and know you are alive is wonderful. Because you are alive, everything is possible.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

It was but yesterday I thought of myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.
~Kahlil Gibran

A traveler am I and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
~Kahlil Gibran

Oftentimes I have hated in self defense; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.
~Kahlil Gibran

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in tune once more.
~John Burroughs

Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of nature, bound by secret affinities to the trees.
~Dag Hammarskjold

It is astonishing how many people cannot, will not, hold still. I could not, or would not, hold still for thirty minutes inside, but at the creek I slow down, center down, empty…I retreat-not inside myself, but outside myself, so that I am a tissue of senses. I am the skin of water the wind plays over; I am petal, feather, stone.
~ Annie Dillard

What if the question is not why am I so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?
~ Oriah Mountian Dreamer