"When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there were going to be doors."  -Joseph Campbell

"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are."  -John W. Gardner

"In a crisis moment, the depth of your intention is going to determine the quality of your decisions." -Lair Hamilton, World Champion Surfer

"Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage." -Napoleon Hill

"You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path; each human being is a unique phenomenon." -Joseph Campbell

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps--we must step up the stairs." -Vance Havner

"...Weeds will grow in abundance if the seeds of more desirable crops are not sown..." -Napoleon Hill

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure ... Who are you not to be?? Your playing small doesn't serve the world."  -Marianne Williamson

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." -Jesus

"I dreamt last night,
oh marvelous error,
that there were honeybees in my heart,
making honey out of my old failures." -Antonio Machado

"Perhaps all the dragon of our lives
are princesses who are only waiting to
see us once, beautiful and brave.
Perhaps everything terrible is in
its deepest being something
that needs our love." -Rainer Maria Rilke

"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"   -Spencer Johnson, M.D.

"And the day came when the risk to remain in a tight bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."  -Anais Nin

"There is no love and no intimacy with others unless we can first define our own boundaries... loving someone may start by stepping back, saying no, defining oneself, and then reaching out and building an authentic bridge to that person. " -from the Essential Edgar Cayce, edited by Mark Thurston, Ph.D

"To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life
are already three parts dead." -Bertrand Russell

"Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul." -Kahlil Gibran

"The divinity we see in others is truly there, but we don't have the right to see it until we have taken away our own projections." -Robert A. Johnson

"People are as frightened of their capacity for nobility as of their darkest sides." -C.G. Jung