"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by aninfinite expectation of the dawn."

— Henry David Thoreau

"It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things. For you cannot live in someone else. You cannot find yourself in someone else. You cannot be given a life by someone else. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose. To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution."

Jo Coudert

"True knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power."
-- Mark Rutherford

There's only now…
There's only here...
Give in to love...
Or live in fear...
No other path...
No other way...
No day but today...
No day but today."

Jonathan Larson, American Playwright

"The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude."

— Gerald Jampolsky

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

Martin Luther King Jr.

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."

--Brian Tracy

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.