Caring; Change; Character; Children/Childhood; Civilization; Collaboration; Commitment; Communication; Community; Compassion; Competition; Conflict/Anger; Conscience; Contribution; Conversation/Dialogue; Courage; Creativity/Innovation; Culture; Curiosity Desire; Destiny; Determination; Dignity/Respect; Dreams/Aspiration    CARING The power of love and caring can change the world. ~James Autry Caring is a powerful business advantage. ~Scott Johnson CHANGE The future is arriving much more quickly than it did. ~unknown Change is not the same as war, but it can feel like it. ~unknown We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~C. G. Jung It is extremely important that you show some insensitivity to your past in order to show the proper respect for the future. ~Roberto Goizueta, former chairman and CEO, Coca-Cola We encourage others to change only if we honour who they are now. We ourselves engage in change only as we discover that we might be more of who we are by becoming something different. ~Margaret Wheatley In the absence of information from the organization, people will connect the dots in the most pathological way possible. In the absence of communication from leaders, people will seek information from others sources, whether those sources know what they’re talking about or not. The leaders’ silence doesn’t stop the conversation; it just means they’re not participating in it. ~Jeanie Daniel Duck They stumble that run fast ~William Shakespeare Dynamic Stability (interspersing major change initiatives among carefully paced periods of smaller, organic change) is immensely more difficult than ramming big, hairy, audacious changes through an organization, in much the same way that it is more difficult to end a war with negotiation than with an atomic bomb. But dynamic stability has the great advantage of leaving survivors. It allows change without fatal pain. ~Eric Abrahamson There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to institute a new order of things. ~Machiavelli Learn to love change. Feel comfortable with your own creative intuition. Make compassion, care, harmony and trust the foundation stones of business. Fall in love with new ideas. ~Anita Roddick The ability and willingness of individual employees to change is the key factor limiting an organization’s ability to reinvent itself. Forceful leadership can accomplish only so much. The shift from machine-age bureaucracy to flexible, self-managing teams requires that lots of ordinary people be psychologically prepared to push the transformation themselves. ~unknown You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change things build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~Buckminster Fuller If you don’t create change, change will create you. ~Unknown For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. ~Joyce Cary, British novelist A bad strategy well executed will win every time. And a good strategy poorly executed, will fail every time. ~Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. ~Richard Hooker (1554-1600) English theologian The difference between the future and the past is what you are doing now. ~Adlai Stevenson Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing economy. ~Unknown “Change” is an environment you create to sustain life — not something you avoid or struggle your way through. ~Margaret Wheatley It's not that people resist change; they resist being changed. ~unknown The paradox of change is that it’s ridiculously easy to initiate, but very difficult to guide so that it accomplishes what you had in mind in the first place! ~unknown Future shock ...the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. ~Alvin Toffler, Future Shock When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: My dear, we live in an age of transition. ~W. R. Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St. Paul's, London We have to understand that we live in a world of emergence. Organization wants to happen. Human organizations emerge from processes that can be comprehended but never controlled. ~Margaret Wheatley We have seen life’s motions of emergence, but called them “change.” We in the West have tried to understand the world in terms of static things, machine-like structures that move on command. In this world of things, change is not motion, but a description of a new state. Rather than understanding change as continuous, creative energy, it becomes nothing but a redesign. ~Margaret Wheatley The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to change it. ~Karl Marx (1818-1883); German social philosopher, revolutionary Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead Humans so crave control that they will choose dysfunction over ambiguity. ~unknown Every exit is an entry to somewhere else. ~unknown We must be the change we wish to see in the world. ~Gandhi Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something. ~unknown Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. ~unknown A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. ~unknown Only the provisional endures. ~unknown To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~unknown How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction . . . for I would not have picked this way for the world. ~unknown Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ~unknown An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. ~unknown Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art of ending. ~unknown We're the ones we've been waiting for. ~Hopi elders The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. ~unknown The best way to change someone else is to change yourself. ~unknown You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you Long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the hour of new clarity. ~Rainer Maria Rilke One definition of insanity is to do the same thing, day-after-day, expecting different results. ~Mark Silber, Ph.D. Every one thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Tolstoy top of page CHARACTER What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it. ~Rudyard Kipling Some people will like me and some won’t. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I’ll know that the people who like me, like me. ~Hugh Prather It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. ~Molière To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. ~e e cummings How glorious it is — and also how painful — to be an exception. ~Alfred de Musset The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ~Ann Landers It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, or where a doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, and who comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at worst, if he fails, fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those cold, timid souls who never knew victory or defeat ~ Theodore Roosevelt I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. ~Aristotle The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. ~Kahlil Gibran The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. ~Alan Ashley-Pitt One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.' ~Carl Jung He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. ~Raymond Hull Always know in your heart that you are far bigger than anything that can happen to you. ~Dan Zadra Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one. ~Unknown Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. ~Henry Ward Beecher I am a part of all that I have seen. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson A politician worries about the next election; a statesman worries about the next generation. ~Unknown Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. ~Henry David Thoreau He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still. ~Charles Caleb Colton Success in relationships is not so much about finding the right person, as it is being the right person. ~Unknown It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. ~Dietrich Bonhoeffer There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are. ~Frederick L Collins All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Sheldon Koggs The size of your body is of little account; the size of your brain is of much account; the size of your heart is of the most account of all. ~B.C. Forbes The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. ~Oscar Wilde In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. ~Alexis Carrel Start with Yourself The following words were written on the tomb of an Anglican Bishop in the Crypts of Westminister Abbey: When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world would not change, so I shortened my sights somewhat and decided to change only my country. But it, too seemed immovable. As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, those closest to me, but alas, they would have none of it. And now, as I lie on my deathbed, I suddenly realize: If only I had changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been able to better my country and, who knows, I may have even changed the world. ~Unknown It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. ~Gandhi All means prove but a blunt instrument, if they have not behind them a living spirit. ~Albert Einstein The superior man understands what is right; The inferior man understands what will sell. ~Confucius Making a Difference (The Story of the Starfish) A man was walking down a deserted ocean beach at sunset. As he walked along, he could make out the silhouette of another man in the distance. As he drew nearer, he observed this person repeatedly bending down, picking something up off the beach, and throwing it out into the water. Time and again the man kept hurling things into the ocean. As the man approached even closer, he noticed that this man was picking up starfish and, one at a time, he was throwing them back into the water. Puzzled at this behaviour, the man approached. “Good evening, friend,” he said, “can I ask what it is you are doing?” The man replied: “I’m throwing these starfish back into the sea. You see, it’s low tide, and all of these starfish have been washed up on the shore. If they’re not thrown back into the water, they’ll die from lack of oxygen.” “While I understand and applaud your intentions,” the first man responded, “there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can’t possibly save all of them. And there must be hundreds of beaches just like this one up and down the coast. Can’t you see that you can’t possibly make a difference?” The man smiled. Then, bending down, he picked up yet another starfish and, having tossed it carefully into the surf, turned to the other man. “Made a difference to that one,” he replied as he walked away. ~Unknown The central, but tough - to - build, (and impossible to fake), foundation of a successful people - orientation, is the gut - level trust and belief in the value of people. One should never be ashamed to own that s/he’s been wrong; that is but saying in other words that s/he is wiser today than yesterday. Unknown top of page CHILDREN/CHILDHOOD Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons Sometimes I wish I were a kid again; skinned knees are a lot easier to fix than a broken heart. ~Unknown Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them. ~Jonas Salk Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. ~Unknown Children have more need of models, than of critics. ~Joseph Joubert Our children are watching us live, and what we ARE shouts louder than anything we can say. ~Wilfred A. Peterson If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams. ~Jim Rohn A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. ~Unknown Children Learn What they Live If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves. If children live with ridicule, they learn to be shy. If children live with jealousy, they learn what envy is. If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty. If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence. If children live with tolerance, they learn patience. If children live with praise, they learn to appreciate. If children live with acceptance, they learn to find love in the world. If children live with approval, they learn self-worth. If children live with recognition, they learn to aspire. If children live with fairness, they learn to be just. If children live with honesty, they learn to be truthful. If children live with security, they learn to trust. If children live with sharing, they learn to give of themselves. Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but are not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the finite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, So He loves also the bow that is stable. ~ Kahil Gibran Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~Rabbinical Saying Children have never been very good at listening to adults but they have never failed to imitate them. ~James Baldwyn All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. ~Ervin "Magic" Johnson There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to be a parent to them. ~Anthony Edwards Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. ~Muriel Spark If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. ~Dick Cavett I am my kid's mom. ~Dr. Laura Schlessinger To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ~John Ruskin If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. ~Bruce Barton Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives. ~Unknown It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. ~John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven" I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ~Harry S Truman Adults are obsolete children. ~Dr. Seuss Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ~Napoleon Hill Child rearing myth #1: Labor ends when the baby is born. ~Unknown You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. ~P. J. O'Rourke Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ~Henry Doherty The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. ~Howard Pyle Great Truths About Life That Little Children Have Learned No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats. When your Mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair. If your sister hits you, don't hit her back. They always catch the second person. Never ask your 3-year-old brother to hold a tomato. You can't trust dogs to watch your food. Reading what people write on desks can teach you a lot. Don't sneeze when someone is cutting your hair. Puppies still have bad breath even after eating a tic tac. Never hold a dustbuster and a cat at the same time. School lunches stick to the wall. You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. Don't wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts. (No matter how cute the underwear is.) ~Unknown Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids! ~Jim Rohn Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; and the end of the world is evidently approaching. ~Assyrian clay tablet 2800 B.C. You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Adams In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul. ~Lisa T. Shepherd It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~William Shakespeare The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day ~O. A. Battista    CIVILIZATION A mark of a civilized society is that its norms are always under tension. Open conversations help us to break through the surface to create something new. ~unknown Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. ~Bourke Cockran Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice. ~Max Nordau top of page COLLABORATION In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. ~Charles Darwin You have to do it by yourself, and you can’t do it alone. ~Martin Rutte Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes None of us is as good as all of us ~Unknown  COMMITMENT People commit to an organization that, first of all, has meaning for them. Nobody can implement COMMITMENT for you! Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. ~Albert Einstein To spark commitment, the vision must integrate short and long term goals, the tasks at hand, and the individual members' expectations for themselves. ~Unknown COMMUNICATION Two monologues do not make a dialogue. ~Jeff Daly To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. ~Anthony Robbins There are enough compulsive talkers; have you met any compulsive listeners? ~Unknown When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is. ~Michael De Saintamo Eschew obfuscation. ~Unknown The time to stop talking is before people stop listening. ~Unknown Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood. ~Jr. Teague Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person. ~Unknown  COMMUNITY Community is a phenomenon hat occurs most easily when free people, with some sense of equal worth, join together voluntarily for a common enterprise (Gifford Pinchot) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. (William James) No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise. Marian Anderson The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning. (Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell) You have to do it by yourself, and you can’t do it alone. (Martin Rutte) COMPASSION The practice of compassion involves a willingness to partner with something or someone and relate to it in such a way that you can understand deeply what it is at its core. ~Dawna Markova A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. ~Unknown Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. ~Albert Schweitzer  COMPETITION Our fear often prevents us from being open to new connections. We become afraid that we will lose our capacity if we open our organization to new and different members, or if we reveal anything to those we have labelled as competitors. But these are just futile attempts to hold the world still, to stop its cohering motions. In fear, we stop the energy available to us. We choose control over effectiveness. top of page CONFLICT/ANGER Anger gets us into trouble. Pride keeps us there. ~Unknown Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ~Robert Ingersoll Our mission is to gain true discernment of the contraries, first as contraries, but then as poles of unity. ~Hermann Hesse It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ~Thomas Huxley I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. ~William Blake Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. ~Laurence J. Peter Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. ~Thomas Fuller Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them apart. ~Confucius Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. ~Benjamin Franklin If we could read the secret history of our enemies, We should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ~Longfellow Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy. ~Aristotle Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. ~Seneca Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. ~Cherie Carter-Scott Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. ~Sivananda CONSCIENCE Conscious is when you are aware of something, and conscience is when you wish you weren't. ~Unknown  CONTRIBUTION From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. ~Arthur Ashe The art of giving is perfected through anonymity. ~Doug Horton  CONVERSATION/DIALOGUE Organizations would benefit from fewer ‘discussions’ about problems and issues, and more conversation about what people want to create together. ~r.brazier  COURAGE Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist It is not an act of intellect which makes people change themselves for the better but an act of the will. For intelligence without courage is as static as courage without intelligence is rash. It is intelligence with courage that results in the necessary act of the will we need in order to bring about constructive change in ourselves. ~Sidney J. Harris The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. ~Betty Bender Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die." ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. ~Erica Jong The heroes and leaders toward peace in our time will be those men and women who have the courage to plunge into the darkness at the bottom of the personal and the corporate psyche and face the enemy within. ~Sam Keen It takes great courage to faithfully follow what we know to be true. ~Sara E. Anderson Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. ~Mark Twain You must walk into your job, every day, willing to be fired. ~Rob Gray top of page CREATIVITY/INNOVATION A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous, and then dismissed as trivial, until finally it becomes what everybody knows. ~William James Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. ~Thomas Disch If the car industry behaved like the computer industry over the last 30 years, a Rolls-Royce would cost $5, get 300 miles per gallon, and blow up once a year killing all passengers inside. ~Unknown Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done. - Rudolph Flesch If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~Albert Einstein Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress. ~Theodore Levitt Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour, springs and germinates no more. ~Henri Frederic Amiel A new idea is at its most vulnerable during the first few moments of life. In any important relationship, one negative comment outweighs ten positives. The “silly” question is the first intimation of some totally new development. ~Alfred North Whitehead Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgi Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. ~Howard Aiken What is now proved was once only imagined. ~William Blake Everything you see and touch was once an invisible idea until someone chose to bring it into being. Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we choose to use it. ~Richard Bach Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ~Thomas Alva Edison He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. ~Francis Bacon  CULTURE Organizational culture is the 'river of meaning' in which any plans for change must be able to swim (r.brazier) top of page CURIOSITY Curiosity has its own reason for existing. (Albert Einstein) DESIRE Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down. Satya Sai Baba DESTINY You are what your deep driving desire is, As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. ~Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5 Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. ~Orison S. Marden A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. ~Abraham Maslow Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. ~Hasidic saying We are what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The strangest secret is that we become what we think about most of the time. ~Earl Nightingale Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved. ~William Jennings Bryant If....one's destiny is shaped from within, then one has become more of a creator, has gained freedom. This is self - transcendence, a process of change that originates in one's heart and expands outward, always within the purview and direction of a knowing consciousness, begins with a vision of freedom, with an "I want to become....," with a sense of the potentiality to become what one is not. One gropes toward this vision in the dark, with no guide, no map, and no guarantee. Here one acts as subject, author, creator. ~Allen Wheelis, HOW PEOPLE CHANGE The Loom Of Time Man's life is laid in the loom of time To a pattern he does not see, While the weavers work and shuttles fly ‘Til the dawn of eternity. ~Unknown top of page DETERMINATION Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. ~Abraham Linclon We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. ~Winston Churchill I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. ~William Blake DIGNITY/RESPECT The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. ~George Bernard Shaw, The Devil's Disciple No one can make you feel inferior without your permission. ~Unknown DREAMS/ASPIRATION Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. ~Kahlil Gibran To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. ~William Blake Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? ~Robert Browning Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. ~Dale E. Turner The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~Eleanor Roosevelt Let your heart pave the way, and your dreams build the view. ~Carol James Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. ~Louisa May Alcott Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ~W.B.Yeats In dreams begin responsibility. ~Yeats I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. ~Jonas Salk To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ~Anatole France To understand the heart and mind of a man, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. ~Kahlil Gibran If you can dream it, you can do it. ~Walt Disney Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau Life does not consist mainly —or even largely— of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing though one’s head. ~Mark Twain If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau top of page

 

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