Some of My Favorite Quotes

I was looking through an old journal yesterday, and I came upon these quotes which i wanted to share (I wrote down the names of the authors of the quotes, but not the sources where I found them):

"If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret."
Vernon Howard

"You are created anew every moment."
Sri Aurobindo

"The difficulty is that we do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A free mind has the power to achieve all things."
Meister Eckhart

"Be free, gay, uncomplicated, a child. But be a strong child, fearing nothing."
Francois Fenelon

For me, these quotes are significant because of the difficulties I was experiencing in my personal life at the time I recorded them in my journal. They helped me get through a very dismal time, and come out a better and happier person, maybe even a little wiser. I offer them to anyone who needs some hope or light.

One last quote for the day:

"For all these years, you've protected the seed. It's time to become the flower."
Stephen C Paul