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“Here’s how I see your weight—it is your smoke detector. And we’re all burning up the best part of our lives.” I’d never thought of it that way before, but it was a true aha moment. My weight was an indicator warning, a flashing light blaring my disconnection from the center of myself.”
Oprah Winfrey

“When life has meaning, you can bear almost anything; without it, nothing is bearable.”
Rick Warren

“I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any”
Mahatma Gandhi

“This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.”
C.S. Lewis

“Why settle for the ‘get by’ when in the long run the good costs less?” 
Zig Ziglar

“Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.”
Billy Graham

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ”
C.S. Lewis

“You don't say how slim the odds are but rather how you can improve the odds.”
John C. Maxwell

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances freedom to others. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended.”
Nelson Mandela

“To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.”
Billy Graham

“Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for what they do with that which they know.”
Napoleon Hill

“Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.” 
Albert Einstein

“To improve ourselves, to move toward that goal, perfection, that puts no less a demand on us for being unattainable, requires solitude, removal from the concerns of everyday life. And yet constant solitude renders self-improvement impossible, if not pointless. A balance must be struck between meditating in solitude and then applying this to your everyday life.”
Leo Tolstoy

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