001. "I think one of our most important tasks is to convince others that there is nothing to fear in difference; that difference, in fact, is one of the healthiest and most invigorating of human characteristics without which life would become meaningless. Here lies the power of the liberal way: not in making the whole world Unitarian, but in helping ourselves and others to see some of the possibilities inherent in viewpoints other than one's own; in encouraging the free interchange of ideas; in welcoming the fresh approaches to the problems of life; in urging the fullest, most vigorous use of critical self-examination." - Aldlai Stevenson
002. "Dream. Believe. Dare. Do." - The Walt Disney Motto
003. "When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality."- Dom Helder Camara
004. "Dreams are necessary to life." - Anais Nin
005. "My friends are my power!" - Ven, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep
006. "This boat runs on happy faces!" - Donald, Kingdom Hearts
007. "Let's meet again, in the next life." - Axel, Kingdom Hearts 2
008. "If you have a dream, don't wait. Act." - Axel, Kingdom Hearts 2
009. "We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel...is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become." - Ursula K. Le Guin
010. "A dream is a wish your heart makes" - Walt Disney's Cinderella
011. "If time has a heart, it is only because other hearts stop." - Diane Duane's Young Wizards Series
012. "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve
013. "When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better." - Pauline R. Kezer
014. "Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." - Muhammad Ali
015. "Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes our deepest thank to those who have rekindled this light." - Albert Schweitzer
016. "Your greatest gift lies behind the door named fear." - Sufi Scripture
017. "...And the more these visits enriched our world, the fewer lies there were in theirs, the better it became. Just as our two worlds can injure each other, they can also make each other whole again." - spoken by the Childlike Empress; 158, The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende
018. "Master," the lion replied calmly. "Didn't you know that Fantastica is the land of stories? A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story." - 210, The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende
019. "As you go on in this world....always believe in your dreams. Keep looking forward to the future... to all you might be. Don't let old mistakes or misfortunes hold you down. Believe in yourself. So long as you are true to the strength within your own heart... you can never go wrong." - Ashley Rice
020. "In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable, and help to change it." - Ernst Fischer
021. "There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.
But sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and then the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.
That is the sort of bravery I must have now." - Four, Allegiant, p. 509
022. "Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she [Christina] says, "But you know what I'm holding on for?"
I[Four] raise my eyebrows.
She raises hers, too, mimicking me.
"The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around." - Christina & Four, Epilogue, Allegiant, p. 526
023. "Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other." - Four, Epilogue, Allegiant, p. 526
024. "We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either." - Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars, p. 312
025. "The real heroes anyway aren't teh people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention." - Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars, p. 312
026. "You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you." - Augustus Waters, p. 313
027. “I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
028. “That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.” - Adlai E Stevenson
029. “It is not a wound I can heal……Child, listen. That power resides in you alone. Nothing can be changed without undoing what was done. Yet even a stunted tree reaches toward the sunlight. Let the wound heal. Bear the scar with pride…. You will find a way.” - Asclepius in Kushiel’s Scion by Jacqueline Carey
030. “Let them grow to be whatever they want to be, as long as they’re good. Let them blossom into whatever they want to be. Support them 100 percent.”
-Oscar Viveros, Father of Andii Viveros the first Trans female to be crowned Prom Queen
031. “You are fiction to the selves
who took other paths and choices.
They are fiction to you.
You’ve got a lot to learn from each other.”
- Richard Bach, in The Messiah’s Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul
032. “If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.”
from The Messiah’s Handbook: Reminders for the Advanced Soul in Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
033. “What you carry is no curse, but a gift. Like any gift, it can be used for good or evil. If you use it wisely and kindly, it will bring only joy, and never sorrow. Trust your heart to guide you. Take your shame and offer it to God. Let him burn it away until only what is pure remains.” - Moirin in Naamah’s Curse by Jacqueline Carey, p. 283
034. "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
035. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” - Winston Churchill
036. "All most of us want is for our boat to be lifted off dry ground to someplace new, someplace better. All most of us really want is to be loved, to be validated, to be held, to be heard. Maybe our costumes are different, maybe our interests are different, maybe our tortures were different. But the human condition is always the same. We want recognition. We want to be able to be who we are. We want to be real. An occasional hug shouldn’t be such a radical concept.”
- Nancy Slonim Aronie, in Writing from the Heart: Tapping the Power of Your Inner Voice
037. "It's not something that I have ever aspired to be or courted because I think the second that you say: 'Oh, I am a role model and that's why I make the decisions that I make,' you've kind of shot yourself in the foot. A role model is somebody that does things because of what they believe in regardless of what other people think." - Anne Hathaway
038. "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own." - Bruce Lee
039. "A path is formed by walking on it." - Chuang Tzu
040. "Nine words the Eclectic Rede attest:
Steal what works.
Fix what's broke.
Fake the rest." - The Eclectic Rede, Steve Storm
041. "With great power comes great responsibility." - Stan Lee in SpiderMan
042. "If you don't know the answer, look it up, don't make it up." - Elizabeth Barrette
043. "No matter how little you know, there's someone you can teach it to;
No matter how much you know, there's someone who can teach you more.
If you're not making any mistakes, you're not learning, you're coasting." - Elizabeth Barrette
045. "You are entitled to your informed opinion." - Harlan Ellison
046. The Wiccan Rede
047. A Correllian Creed
048. Kwan Yin's Prayer for the Abuser
049. The 5 Reiki Precepts
050. "There is a love holding me. There is a love holding you. There is a love holding us all. We rest in that love." - Rebecca Parker, Unison Candle Prayer
051. "We give ourselves one to another, covenanting to walk together as a congregation, promising to faithfully watch over one another and to delight for love to abide in our midst." - 1717 Covenant Adapted
052. "We can do together what we could never do alone!" - Brookline Benediction
053. Unitarian Universalist Principles
054. The 42 Ideals of Ma'at of the Temple of Isis
037. "It's not something that I have ever aspired to be or courted because I think the second that you say: 'Oh, I am a role model and that's why I make the decisions that I make,' you've kind of shot yourself in the foot. A role model is somebody that does things because of what they believe in regardless of what other people think." - Anne Hathaway
038. "Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own." - Bruce Lee
039. "A path is formed by walking on it." - Chuang Tzu
040. "Nine words the Eclectic Rede attest:
Steal what works.
Fix what's broke.
Fake the rest." - The Eclectic Rede, Steve Storm
041. "With great power comes great responsibility." - Stan Lee in SpiderMan
042. "If you don't know the answer, look it up, don't make it up." - Elizabeth Barrette
043. "No matter how little you know, there's someone you can teach it to;
No matter how much you know, there's someone who can teach you more.
If you're not making any mistakes, you're not learning, you're coasting." - Elizabeth Barrette
045. "You are entitled to your informed opinion." - Harlan Ellison
046. The Wiccan Rede
047. A Correllian Creed
048. Kwan Yin's Prayer for the Abuser
049. The 5 Reiki Precepts
050. "There is a love holding me. There is a love holding you. There is a love holding us all. We rest in that love." - Rebecca Parker, Unison Candle Prayer
051. "We give ourselves one to another, covenanting to walk together as a congregation, promising to faithfully watch over one another and to delight for love to abide in our midst." - 1717 Covenant Adapted
052. "We can do together what we could never do alone!" - Brookline Benediction
053. Unitarian Universalist Principles
054. The 42 Ideals of Ma'at of the Temple of Isis
055. "The famous adage is wrong: the journey of 1000 miles doesn't begin with the first step. It begins with the assurance that you can take the first step." - Deepak Chopra, Evolutionary Enlightenment
056. "Be a strong female -- don't be afraid of the flack that goes along with that." - Christina Aguilera
057. "A woman is like a tea bag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is." - Eleanor Roosevelt
058. "There is a woman at the beginning of all great things." - Alphonse de Lamartine
059. "Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance." - Edith Sitwell
060. "Realize that you don't have to follow trends -- differences can become your signature." - Dayle Haddon
061. "Living your creative dreams renews your soul. Make time for them!" - SARK
062. "There are always going to be bumps. Figuring out how to get over the bumps -- that's what's really fun." - Alicia Silverstone
063. "There's this wonderful quality that most successful people have... You have to believe in the impossible." - Will Smith
064. "Being the best is a simple decision...It's about commitment, plain and simple." - Mia Hamm
065. "God gives everybody gifts -- you just have to realize what yours is and work on that." - Beyoncé Knowles
066. "You have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, and figure out how to help yourself." - Bobbi Brown
067. "If you put yourself in the position to fail, totry something you've never done, that's when you learn the most." - Ethan Hawke
068. "It's bizarre when your dreams become reality... [So] I have this paper taped to my phone that reads 'Dream Bigger.'" - Ashton Kutcher
069. "Have some idea, not about what you want to do, but about the kind of person you want to be." - Barbara Walters
070. "If there is a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." - Toni Morrison
071. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen
072. "By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist." - Julia Cameron
073."Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
074. "Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours." - Swedish proverb
075. "Believe there are no limits but the sky." - Cervantes
076. "There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth... not going all the way and not starting." - Buddha
077. "The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power." - Ninon de Leclos
078. "Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives." - Mary Ann Brussat
079. "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin
081. "Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most." - Buddha
082. "Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart.
And try to love the questions themselves." - Rainer Maria Rilke
083. "When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another." - Helen Keller
084. "The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings." - Kakuzo Okakaura
085. "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
086. "Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps subconsciousness -- I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness." - Aaron Copland
087. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
088. "Desire, ask, believe, receive." - Stella Terrill Mann
089. "We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." - Shakti Gawain
090. "Creative work is play. It is free speculation using the materials of one's chosen form." - Stephen Nachmanovitch
091. "Especially because I have a good imagination, I choose to find amazing new ways of bringing magic into my life where there was only misery before. Evolution itself depends on how good I get at this. The world needs what I have to offer!" - Rue Hass, EFT for the Highly Sensitive Temperament reframe
092. "In Life's name, and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life's service alone. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; Nor will I change any creature unless its growth and Life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will ever put aside fear for courage, and death for Life, when it is fitting to do so- looking always toward the Heart of Time, where all our sundered times are one, and all our myriad worlds lie whole, in that from which they proceeded..." - The Wizard's Oath, species-nonspecific recension, The Book of Night with Moon, Book 1 of Cats of Grand Central, a side-series to the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
092. "In Life's name, and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life's service alone. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; Nor will I change any creature unless its growth and Life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will ever put aside fear for courage, and death for Life, when it is fitting to do so- looking always toward the Heart of Time, where all our sundered times are one, and all our myriad worlds lie whole, in that from which they proceeded..." - The Wizard's Oath, species-nonspecific recension, The Book of Night with Moon, Book 1 of Cats of Grand Central, a side-series to the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane
093. "See the Turtle of Enormous Girth,
On his shell he holds the Earth.
His thought is slow, but always kind.
He holds us all within his mind.
On his back all vows are made;
He sees the truth but mayn't aid.
He loves the land and loves the sea,
And even loves a child like me." - Maturin's Poem as told by Roland, The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
094. "Do not ask what the world needs. Instead, ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive." - Thurmond Whitman
095. "Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." -Alan Alda
096. "It's not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivien Greene
097. "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do." - Helen Keller
098. “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
099. "Stories wait for endings, but songs are brave things bold enough to sing when all they know is darkness." -To Write Love on Her Arms by Jamie Tworkowski
100. "If you take one step toward expressing all the greatness that lives within you, the universe will take a hundred steps toward you." - Debbie Ford
101." Fairytales are more then true; not because they tell us that dragons exist; but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." -G. K. Chesterton
On his shell he holds the Earth.
His thought is slow, but always kind.
He holds us all within his mind.
On his back all vows are made;
He sees the truth but mayn't aid.
He loves the land and loves the sea,
And even loves a child like me." - Maturin's Poem as told by Roland, The Dark Tower series by Stephen King
094. "Do not ask what the world needs. Instead, ask what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive." - Thurmond Whitman
095. "Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." -Alan Alda
096. "It's not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivien Greene
097. "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do." - Helen Keller
098. “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
099. "Stories wait for endings, but songs are brave things bold enough to sing when all they know is darkness." -To Write Love on Her Arms by Jamie Tworkowski
100. "If you take one step toward expressing all the greatness that lives within you, the universe will take a hundred steps toward you." - Debbie Ford
101." Fairytales are more then true; not because they tell us that dragons exist; but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." -G. K. Chesterton
