God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

God is a flower that grew a nose to smell itself.

Source unknown

God loves you and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Sign on church marquis

Grand adventures await those who are willing to turn the corner.

Chinese saying

Great souls have always encountered violent resistance from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.

Thea Alexander

Growth is the by-product of the pursuit of excellence,
and not itself a worthy goal.

Robert Townsend, former Avis CEO

Henry David Thoreau

He was the kind of guy who didn’t have any problems
because he didn’t want any.

Source unknown

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Roy L. Smith

Healers remind the cells of the body that they are perfect love.

Emmanual (Pat Rodegast)

Heaven asks nothing. It is hell that makes extravagant demands for sacrifice

A Course in Miracles

Hoe your own row ― and let others do the same.

Garrison Keillor

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. 

Christian Morgenstern

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace,
and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

Cinderella, quoted by Garrison Keillor

Source unknown

How can I know what I believe until I hear myself say it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How come we put a man on the moon
 before we figured out how to put wheels on suitcases?

Stephen Wright

How good can you stand it?

Source unknown

Rick Jarrow

How many more idols must you find before you realize that
you are the one you have been searching for?

Dan Fogelberg

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time
and think they have to earn a living.

Buckminster Fuller

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet who tell time and think they

have to earn a living.

Buckminster Fuller

I am committed to truth, not consistency.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.

Jules Renard

 I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

Tolstoy

I call on your pride. Remember what you’ve done, what you dream of doing,
and rise up. Great Heavens, consider yourself with more respect!

Gustave Flaubert

I complained to God when my foundation was shaking,
 only to discover that it was God who was shaking it.

Charles Weston

I confess I find more ecstasy in passion than prayer. Such passion is prayer.

From the film, Dangerous Beauty

I do not seek good fortune – I am good fortune!

Walt Whitman

I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered all over the beaches of the

world . . .  Maybe you've seen it?

Steven Wright

I have an everyday religion that works for me.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Lucille Ball

I have an existential map; it has “you are here” written all over it.

Steven Wright

 I have good news and I have bad news:  The bad news is that there is no key to the universe.  The good news is that the door has never been locked.

Swami Beyondananda

I intend to live forever ¾  so far, so good.

Stephen Wright

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.

Kabir

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

Douglas Adams

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors’ tragedies and declare triumph,
 and know that they are cheering me on.

Gary De Rodriguez

Werner Erhart

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only
the essential facts of life, to see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau