...We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. You were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us.... — Nelson Mandela

You are worried about seeing him [your child] spend his early years in doing nothing.  What!  Is it nothing to be happy?  Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?  Never in his life will he be so busy again. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it, you may be smart enough to see, is what you would have wanted had you known. — Garrison Keillor

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails. — Richard Rybolt

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. — Robert Fritz

When facing a crisis, a simple tactic of the Enemy is to convince us we have to focus on the whole war. — Zoe Seed