top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."
Standard
Customized
More
"Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again."
Liberation
"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."
Courage
"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."
Identity
"Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they were the targets of hate mongers who wanted them dead, they were at least credited with being alive. Northern whites with their public smiles of liberal acceptance and their private behavior of utter rejection wearied and angered the immigrants."
Society
"If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a country where money is adored, it's almost impossible to grow up and to grow up honest inside. It is almost impossible. Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. But to grow up, to take responsibility for the time you take up, and the space you occupy, to honor every living person for his or her humanity, that is to grow up."
Society
"The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society."
Healing
"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."
Happiness
"I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."
Respect
"Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike."
Compassion
"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."
History
More
"Let your existence be enough for a moment."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Make NOW the primary focus of your life!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Breathe deeply and remember to love."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Heaven shows up all the time. But we plan our time so that we show up in other places."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never let the clouds of your negative past blindfold you from the beauty of the present."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Developing a commanding presence is essential for leadership and a powerful impact."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away."
Author Name
Personal Development
"By being fully present and engaged you will maximize your moments to make every encounter count."
Author Name
Personal Development
"...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page