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- There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
- You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
- That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.
- Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
- Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
- Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
- Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
- Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
- Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
- I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004
- Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.
- Matthias, Correction Weblog, 11-01-03
- Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.
- Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001
- The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
- Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992
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