For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

What always was must always be.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand!

A true fanatic, his promptings were reasons enough for his actions.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood, restless harbingers of violence and bloodshed, knowing no other path....

Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were the strangest of any man I ever knew.

It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

No man can be convinced when he will not.

It was made from the black lotus, whose blossoms wave in the lost jungles of Khitai, where only the yellow-skulled priests of Yun dwell. Those blossoms strike dead any who smell of them.

I have come to believe that mankind eternally hovers on the brinks of secret oceans of which it knows nothing.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.

Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.

‎"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.