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• Doubts…often beget the facts they fear.
  ~ Thomas Jefferson
• He who binds to himself a joy
  Does the winged life destroy;
  But he who kisses the joy as it flies
  Lives in Eternity's sunrise.
  ~ William Blake
• Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water...
  
  Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.
  ~ Buddha
• The most inspiring thing about the life of Jesus was not his ability
  to quiet the storm or control the tempest, but absolute control of
  himself.
  ~ Sterling W. Sill
• When you know a thing, you believe it, and the true believer sees with his spiritual discernment that which the surface investigator cannot see with the eyes of his head, and he understands through his inner
  thought that which the outside examiner cannot understand with his demanding, acquired process of thought. The believer acquaints himself with the sacred realities through deep senses different from those used by others. A believer looks upon his senses as a great wall surrounding him, and when he walks upon the path he says, "This city has no exit, but it is perfect within." The believer lives for all the days and the nights and the unfaithful live but a few hours.
  ~ Kahlil Gibran
• The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.
  ~ Neal A. Maxwell
• When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who knows our capacity perfectly, placed us here to succeed. No one was foreordained to fail or to be wicked. When we feel overwhelmed, let us recall the assurance given through Joseph that God, who knows we "cannot bear all things now," will not over program us; he will not press upon us more than we can bear.
  ~ Neal A. Maxwell
• All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.
  ~ Carl Sandburg
• As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
  ~ Rene Descartes
• During the early phases of World War II, a most vital decision was made by one of the great leaders of the Allied Military, Viscount Slim of Great Britain. Long after the war he made this statement concerning this decision made in the battle for Khartoum in 1940: "Like so many generals whose plans have gone wrong, I could find plenty of excuses, but only one reason—myself! When two courses of action were open to me, I had not chosen, as a good commander should, the bolder. I had taken counsel of my fears."
  ~ Viscount Slim
• On the plains of hesitation bleached the bones of countless millions
  Who at the dawn of victory sat down to rest, and resting died
  ~ George W. Cecil
• How insignificant mere money-seeking looks in comparison with a serene life - a life that dwells in the ocean of Truth, beneath the waves, beyond the reach of tempests, in the Eternal Calm!
  ~ James Allen
• The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune, and chance. See a man grow rich, they say, "How lucky he is!" Observing another become intellectual, they exclaim, "How highly favored he is!" And noting the saintly character and wide influence of another, the remark, "How chance aids him at every turn!"
  
  They do not see the trials and failures and struggles which these men have voluntarily encountered in order to gain their experience. They have no knowledge of the sacrifices they have made, of the undaunted efforts they have put forth, of the faith they have exercised, that they might overcome the apparently insurmountable, and realize the Vision of their heart. They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it "luck"; do not see the long and arduous journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it "good fortune"; do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it "chance."
  
  In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. "Gifts," powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort. They are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.
  
  The vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.
  ~ James Allen
• The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth.
  ~ Joseph Campbell
• Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.
  ~ Marcus Aurelius
• The chances of our being here are not even to be thought of, yet here we are.
  ~ Hugh Nibley
• I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand.
  ~ Baruch Spinoza
• If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
  ~ Mevlana Rumi
• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
  ~ Mevlana Rumi
• It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
  ~ Albert Einstein
• The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
  ~ Mevlana Rumi
• Everything--a horse, a vine--is created for some duty...For what task, then, were you yourself created?
  
  A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
  ~ Marcus Aurelius
• Be the change you want to see in the world.
  ~ Gandhi