Quotes
A daily line on presence, resilience, and mind.
"Pressure is a privilege. It comes only to those who earn it."
Billie Jean King— Pressure Is a Privilege, 2008
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Frederick Douglass— West India Emancipation speech, 1857
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King Jr.— "Loving Your Enemies," Strength to Love
"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
Barack Obama— Super Tuesday speech, Feb 5, 2008
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."
Rumi— The Essential Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks
"Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment."
Lao Tzu— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 33
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
Viktor Frankl— Man's Search for Meaning
"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."
Thich Nhat Hanh— Stepping into Freedom
"Be here now."
Ram Dass— Be Here Now
"It is not the thing itself that disturbs you, but your judgment about it — and it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."
Marcus Aurelius— Meditations, 8.47 (trans. George Long)
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
Frederick Douglass— West India Emancipation speech, 1857
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde— The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895