We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.
—Konrad Adenauer (German Head of State)
The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people’s lives that you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.
—Harold Kushner (American Jewish Religious Leader)
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
—Mario Andretti (Italian-born American Sportsperson)
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic, criteria.
—Robert Maynard Hutchins (American Educator)
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we’re tired of the pain. We’re in a hurry. No time to mess around.
—Byron Katie (American Speaker)
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable–but I always was so, only I never knew it.
—Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Indian-born American Novelist)
The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it’s understood.
—Byron Katie (American Speaker)