Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul...It is far better to become your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth.

You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

Ian Somerhalder

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

John Wooden

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

Art Linkletter

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

C.S. Lewis

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

Naveen Jain

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

Henry David Thoreau

Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

John Shelby Spong

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Norman Mailer

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for H

To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.

Hilaire Belloc, The Footpath Way