Quotations | School for Good Living

Ramana Maharishi

“Your hands may do the work but your mind can remain still. You are that which never moves.”

Mindfulness

Ramana Maharishi

The question “Who am I?” is not really meant to get an answer, the question “Who am I?” is meant to disolve the questioner.

M. Scott Peck

“An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one’s own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker’s world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.”

M. Scott Peck

“True listening requires a setting aside of oneself.”

Love

Presence

Bill Nye

“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.”

Oprah Winfrey

“The big secret in life is that there is no big secret.”

Purpose

Oprah Winfrey

“Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.”

Fred Rogers

“We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“L’essential est invisible pour les yeux,” – “What is essential is invisible to the eyes.”

Happiness

Love

Mindfulness

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.”

Business

Mark Nepo

My friends are the beings through whom God loves me.

Relationships

Spirituality

WILLIAM FAULKNER

It is the writer’s privilege to help one endure by lifting up his heart.

AUGUSTE RODIN

It does not do to hurry.

Energy

Unknown

William Carlos Williams wrote, “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”

WILLIAM RICHARDS

There’s a source deep in the core of human consciousness that’s simply a given. It doesn’t come from expectations or our beliefs; it’s just there, waiting for us to discover or rediscover it.

Values

Goethe

“Feeling is all,”

Emotions

Ramana Maharshi

“There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.”

Identity

Purpose

Hans Hofmann

“At first, you paint with everyone in the room. Then, you paint with only you in the room. Finally, you paint with no one in the room.”

Miguel de Unamuno

“What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.”

Action

C.S. Lewis

“When the most important things in our life happen we quite often don’t know, at the moment, what is going on.”

Presence

Seneca

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Energy

John Ruskin

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Stanley Kunitz

The Universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

Lou Holtz

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s how you carry it.”

Emotions

Spirituality

Roger Bulloch

“It’s all okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”

Happiness

Mindfulness

James Baldwin.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

Action

Barbra Streisand

“Fear is the energy of doing your best work.”

Business

Emotions