"O God, help me to believe the truth about myself no matter how beautiful it is."

Macrina Weidekehr

"Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you."

Parker Palmer

"You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours."

Anne Wilson Schaef

"If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside."

Jim Kwik

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

Joseph Campbell

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

Maya Angelou