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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
― Maya Angelou

“To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group--a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project. This kind of critical and democratic sensibility flies in the face of any policing of borders and boundaries of "blackness", "maleness", "femaleness", or "whiteness".”
― Cornel West, Race Matters

“Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later”
― Bono

“Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.”
― Bono

“I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.”
― Bono, Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

“Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.”
― Bono

“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end -- which you can never afford to lose -- with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”
― Jim Stockdale

“We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”
― Wayne W. Dyer, There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem

“Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“You cannot fail, you can only produce results.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“There is one grand lie -
that we are limited.
The only limits we have
are the limits we believe.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.”
― Wayne W. Dyer, Wisdom of the Ages

“Fear of the unknown.

They are afraid of new ideas.

They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if something is new, I reject it immediately because it’s frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar.

You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.”
― Richie Norton

“Many times busyness is often mistakenly equated with productivity. But those words are not synonymous. Just because we're spinning our wheels, rushing from one commitment to the next, doesn't necessarily mean that we are doing anything worthwhile.”
― Crystal Paine

“People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson