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Our Favorite Quotations
These are a few quotations we find inspiring. Enjoy!




"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

-E.E. Cummings
"The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge."
-Mirra Komarovsky


"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."

        - Carl Rogers



"The Kingdom of God is within you"
-Jesus Christ


"That which must be learned can't be taught."
-The Buddha


"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
-The Serenity Prayer



"My Declaration of Self Esteem:
I am me. In all the world there is no one else exactly like me. There are persons who have some parts like me, but no one adds up exactly like me. Therefore, everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone choose it."
-Virginia Satir
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
-Abraham Maslow


" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.... Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do."

        -Marianne Williamson



"To thine own self be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou can not then be false to any man."
-William Shakespeare



"Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the darkness conscious."


        -Carl Jung



"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

        -Maria Robinson