Quote Collection: William A. Ward

“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

Quote Collection: Anais Nin

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

We have been poisoned by fairytales.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Quote Collection: Napolean Hill

The only thing you can control for certain in any situation is your reaction to it.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Quote Collection: Joseph Campbell

“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.”

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

Quote Collection: Joseph Campbell

“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.”

“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”

“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”

Quote Collection: Gerald Jampolsky

"Love is letting go of fear."

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

“It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right here and now. You can choose to be peaceful right here and now. Peace is a choice, and it has nothing to do with what other people do or think.”

Quote Collection: Mae West

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Quote Collection: Anais Nin

“Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

"Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."

Quote Collection: Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is greatest accomplishment."

"Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

Quote Collection: Erich Fromm

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Quote Collection: William A. Ward

"Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently."

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you."

“A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.”

Quote Collection: Napoleon Hill

"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat"

"The majority of men meet with failure because (they don't create) new plans to take the place of those that fail."

Mae West

"A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

"Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain."

"All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else."

"Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art."

Quote Collection: Abraham Maslow

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

Quote Collection: Erich Fromm

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.