-- Lao-tzu

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

-- Jim Ryun

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

-- A. Robert Turgot

The love of liberty is the love of others. The love of power is the love of ourselves.

-- William Hazlitt

Someone is always trying to summon us back to a dead allegiance.

-- Marilyn Ferguson

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.

If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

-- Kahlil Gibran

With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

-- Henry David Thoreau

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

-- Mark Twain

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

-- Charles Dickens

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.

-- Albert Camus

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

-- French Proverb

I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

-- Woody Allen

Lecturer, entrepreneur and MBA business consultant, John Harricharan is the author of the award-winning book, "When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat." Spiritual Simplicity The Real Secret http://www.spiritual-simplicity.com/