Quotations | School for Good Living

Don Marquis

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think they’ll hate you.

Leadership

Relationships

Twyla Tharp

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won’t fail. You’ll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that’s failure by erosion. True failure is a mark of accomplishment in the sense that something new and different was tried.

Unknown

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

Identity

Integrity

Kasspe

If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we’ve solved it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Leadership

Unknown

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.

Time

Carl Sagan

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

Success

Goethe

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

Spirituality

St. John of the Cross

If you wish to be sure of the road you tread on, you must close your eyes and walk in the dark.

Presence

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Success

Alfred North Whitehead

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat. But in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. This is one great reason for the utmost toleration of variety of opinion.

Coco Chanel

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Identity

Purpose

Paul Dirac

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.

Writing

Henry Miller

In this age, which believes there is a shortcut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Arnold Bennett

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

W.H. Murray, Scottish Himalayan Expedition

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

Writing

Gloria Steinem

Somewhere in our lives, each of us needs a free place, a little psychic territory. Do you have yours?

Emotions

Health

Steve Starks

Results follow good process.

Success

Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any…

Happiness

Emmet Fox

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Authenticity

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Alignment

Authenticity

Emotions

Amanda Palmer

“Honor those who seek the truth, but beware of those who’ve found it.”

Soetsu Yanagi

Even the common articles made for daily use become endowed with beauty when they are loved.

Unknown

Arthur Schopenhauer said that all truth goes through three steps: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Time

Henry Ford

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.

Julia Butterfly Hill

For every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

Sri Mrinalini Mata

Know that with every effort you make to reclaim your soul freedom from the dictates of the senses, the ego, and outer circumstances, you are rousing within you the liberating power of Christ Consciousness, gaining strength to rule your life by the laws of love and truth. It is a power that constantly urges us…

Integrity