Here are sources of all the quotes used in Through God’s Eyes: Finding Peace and Purpose in a Troubled World.  This section is for last names from G-L.

IMPORTANT POINTS

• When an original source can’t be found, I list a book or website that contains the quote in question. Such sources are often unreliable, so I consider them simply as placeholders until the original source—or at least the earliest known appearance of the quote—is identified.

• Virtually all quotes in the book are presented verbatim as they appeared in the original sources. In rare instances, I’ve used popular or modern paraphrasings of original quotes.

• A misattributed quote often takes on a life of its own. Even if it bears little or no resemblance to the attributed source, it is worth including (with appropriate historical notes) if it offers insight and value. I did my best to honor the authenticity of every quote, but I am ultimately more concerned with content than authorship.

FOR EASE OF READING

• If the first word in a quote was not the start of a sentence, it has been capitalized anyway.

• If the last word in a quote was not the end of sentence, a period has been added anyway.

• Certain centuries-old quotes have been “updated” using modernized language and punctuation.

• When the author of the book listed is the person being quoted, I did not include the author’s name.

I NEED YOUR HELP

• This post will be updated frequently because identifying who said what, when, and where is a never-ending project.

• Any corrections (no matter how minor), new information, or better sources would be greatly appreciated. Let me emphasize that: I want to make this listing as perfect as possible, so your suggestions are expected and welcomed. You can contact me here.

If a man sin against thee, speak peaceably to him, and in thy soul hold not guile; and if he repent and confess, forgive him. . . . But if he be shameless and persisteth in his wrong-doing, even so forgive him from the heart, and leave to God the avenging.
Gad, the ninth son of Jacob and Zilpah
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, translated by Robert Henry Charles, Adam and Charles Black, 1908, pages 156-158

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
Johannes A. Gaertner
Thanks!: How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier by Robert A. Emmons, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 1, 2008, page 90

Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
Don Galer
The Intangibles of Leadership: The 10 Qualities of Superior Executive Performance by Richard A. Davis, John Wiley and Sons, August 10, 2010, Google eBook, page 69

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, Simon and Schuster, November 3, 2009, page 130

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
The Quotable Woman, 1800-1975, compiled and edited by Elaine Partnow, Corwin Books, January 1, 1978, page 348
• Gandhi said this during an October 19, 1971 press conference in New Delhi

In matters of conscience the Law of Majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 21, online database, page 114
• This quote appeared in a 1920 edition of Young India, a weekly journal published in English by Gandhi from 1919 to 1932

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 21, online database, page 134
• This quote appeared in a 1920 edition of Young India, a weekly journal published in English by Gandhi from 1919 to 1932

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 33, online database, page 237
• This quote appeared in a 1925 edition of Young India, a weekly journal published in English by Gandhi from 1919 to 1932

Prayer is not an asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 36, online database, page 343
• This quote appeared in a 1926 edition of Young India, a weekly journal published in English by Gandhi from 1919 to 1932

Involuntary thought is an affection of the mind, and curbing of thought, therefore, means curbing of the mind which is even more difficult to curb than the wind.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 44, online database, page 248
Also: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth, Courier Dover Publications, 1983, page 184

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 51, online database, page 302
• This quote appeared in a 1931 edition of Young India, a weekly journal published in English by Gandhi from 1919 to 1932
• Gandhi spoke these words in an interview with the press in Karachi on March 26, 1931 about the execution of Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh three days earlier

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of rebirth, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all humanity in friendly embrace.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 51, online database, page 305
• This quote appeared in a 1931 edition of Young India, a weekly journal published in English by Gandhi from 1919 to 1932

Faith is not a thing to grasp, it is a state to grow to.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 67, online database, page 31
• From a letter dated May 3, 1935
• From the diary of Mahadev Desai, an Indian independence activist and nationalist writer who was best known for being Gandhi’s personal secretary

By detachment I mean that you must not worry whether the desired result follows from your action or not, so long as your motive is pure, your means correct.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 88, online database, page 408
• A discussion on or after December 1, 1945 with Ian Stephens, a correspondent for The Statesman, a daily newspaper published in India

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 90, online database, page 195
• Also: Non-Violence in Peace and War, Volume 2, Navajivan Publishing House, 1960, page 75

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. If a few drops are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 96, online database, page 296
• Letter dated August 29, 1947, to Amrit Kaur

Don’t listen to friends when the Friend inside you says, “Do this.”
Mahatma Gandhi
The Gandhi Reader: A Source Book of His Life and Writings, edited by Homer A. Jack, Grove Press, January 5, 1994, page 348
• Conversation in 1939 with Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, the eminent Japanese Christian, social worker, and leader of the cooperative movement

If you don’t find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
Mahatma Gandhi
Ten Commitments to Your Success by Steve Chandler, Maurice Bassett, January 30, 2005, page 21

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Mahatma Gandhi
The Simplicity Connection: Creating a More Organized, Simplified and Sustainable Life by C. B. Davis, Trafford Publishing, August 14, 2009, page 35

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it—always.
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi: The Screenplay by John Briley, for the 1982 film
• While it is unlikely that Gandhi uttered these exact words in life, there is no question that they were entirely consistent with his outlook.

What we have before us are breathtaking opportunities disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. Gardner
Living, Leading, and the American Dream, Jossey-Bass, May 7, 2003, page 11

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
John W. Gardner
No Easy Victories, Harper & Row, 1968, page 117

I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
Gauguin: Biographical and Critical Studies by Charles Estienne, Skira, 1953, page 17
• Gauguin’s complete quote is:

I shut my eyes in order to see, without understanding the dream in infinite space which recedes before me.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Théophile Gautier
Pacific Monthly, Volumes 4-6, edited by William Bittle Wells, Pacific Monthly Publishing Company, 1900, page 116

Often, people attempt to live their lives backward: They try to havemore things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Shakti Gawain
Creative Visualization, New World Library, Nataraj, 25th anniversary edition, September 19, 2002, page 48

The more willing you are to surrender to the energy within you, the more power can flow through you.
Shakti Gawain 
Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformationby Shakti Gawain and Laurel King, New World Library, September 15, 1998, Google eBook, page 49

When I’m trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily and working smoothly.
Shakti Gawain
Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformationby Shakti Gawain and Laurel King, New World Library, September 15, 1998, Google eBook, page 65

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly!
Shakti Gawain
Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations, New World Library, 1988, page 32

My narrative:
In his book, Vibrational Medicine, Dr. Richard Gerber describes all matter as “frozen light,” light which has been slowed down and become solid. This light, the light of Divine Consciousness, can be compared to the light emanating from a movie projector.
• In Vibrational Medicine, Bear & Company, March 1, 2001, page 56, Gerber use the subhead: “News from the World of Particle Physics: Matter as Frozen Light & Its Implications for Medicine”
• In A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine: Energy Healing and Spiritual Transformation, HarperCollins, August 7, 2001, page 357, Gerber writes:

A number of scientists have studied the nature of matter at the subatomic level and have concluded that all subatomic particles are essentially miniature energy fields of frozen light, as well as tiny energy-interference patterns.

Religion is a house; spirit is the air that flows through and around it.
Tom Gegax
Winning in the Game of Life, RH Publishng, July 1, 2003, page 79

When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.
Maha Ghosananda
Religion, Politics, And International Relations: Selected Essays by Jeffrey Haynes, Routledge, 2011, page 268

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 11

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, pages 15-16

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 16

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 20

You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”
The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else from you.
And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. . . .
For in truth it is life that gives unto life—while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, pages 21-22

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 25

Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 28

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 29

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 29

Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board,
remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 30

Or have you only comfort, and the lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master?
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 32

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, pages 47-48

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 52

And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 52

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 58

When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue.
Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear;
For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered
When the color is forgotten and the vessel is no more.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 61

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.
You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness,
And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 62

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 80

Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain.
And in this lies my honour and my reward,—
That whenever I come to the fountain to drink I find the living water itself thirsty;
And it drinks me while I drink it.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 88

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,
And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923; this edition August 2001, page 89

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Kahlil Gibran
The Kahlil Gibran Reader, Citadel Press, August 1, 2006, page 30

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran
The Kahlil Gibran Reader, Citadel Press, August 1, 2006, page 38

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
Kahlil Gibran
The Kahlil Gibran Reader, Citadel Press, August 1, 2006, page 42

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
The Kahlil Gibran Reader, Citadel Press, August 1, 2006, page 45

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 170

There is a space between man’s imagination and man’s attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 172

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 198

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 200

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold;
And I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 201

I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 201

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches;
Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 203

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 203

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 209

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 209

I said to Life, “I would hear Death speak.”
And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, “You hear him now.”
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 211

My friend, you and I shall remain strangers unto life,
And unto one another, and each unto himself,
Until the day when you shall speak and I shall listen
Deeming your voice my own voice;
And when I shall stand before you
Thinking myself standing before a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 212

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 217

We choose our joys and our sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 217

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 217

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran: The Collected Works, Alfred A. Knopf, October 23, 2007, page 218

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
Sand and Foam, Sterling Publishers Private Limited, September 15, 2009, page 30

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil Gibran
The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul, translated and edited by Robin H. Waterfield and Juan R. I. Cole, Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1, 1998, page 43

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
Kahlil Gibran
The Broken Wings, the Earth Gods, the Forerunner, Echo Library, June 1, 2009, page 16

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship
and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual
affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it
will not be created in years or even generations.
Kahlil Gibran
The Broken Wings, the Earth Gods, the Forerunner, Echo Library, June 1, 2009, page 17

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
André Gide
The Authentic Heart: An Eightfold Path to Midlife Love by John Amodeo, John Wiley and Sons, January 22, 2001, page 94

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach, Hachette Digital, Inc., November 15, 1995, Google eBook, page 24

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
André Gide
Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought by Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black, Basic Books, 1995, page 229

Don’t ruin the present with the ruined past.
Ellen Gilchrist
The Book of Positive Quotations, compiled and arranged by John Cook, Fairview Press, October 25, 2007, page 295

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell
• Confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail: After Glidewell wrote this line in one of his St. Petersburg Times columns in the early 1990s, Reader’s Digest printed it in its “Towards More Picturesque Speech” feature

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience.
George Gissing
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, Boni and Liveright, 1918, page 248

The task of making sense of ourselves and our behavior requires that we acknowledge there can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
Malcolm Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Hachette Digital, Inc., January 11, 2005, Google eBook, Introduction

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
Arnold H. Glasow
Everlasting Wisdom by Daniel Weis, Paragon Publishing, 2010, page 79

Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow
Nine To Five Or Something Like That: Finding Work/life Balance And Fulfillment for Women by Charmaine Augustin, AuthorHouse, January 30, 2005, page 1

Being ungrateful for what you get never gets you more.
Arnold H. Glasow
Think: Volumes 16-17, International Business Machines Corp., 1950, page 97

You’ll break the worry habit the day you decide you can meet and master the worst that can happen to you.
Arnold H. Glasow
Letting Go of Worry: God’s Plan for Finding Peace and Contentment by Linda Mintle, Harvest House Publishers, October 1, 2011, page 177

I am so fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which seems to our earthly eyes to set in night, but is in reality gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of his Life by Johann Peter Eckermann, Hilliard, Gray and Company, 1839, page 108w

Everyone hears only what he understands.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sourced by the Goethe Society of North America as: Maximen und Reflexionen 887; GA 9: 615.
• Here is a translated version of Maxims and Reflections that lists the quote as:

For surely everyone only hears what he understands.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe’s Works, Part One: Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, G. Barrie, 1885, pages 334-335
• The actual quote is:

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is but poor comédie à tiroir. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

• The translation of the French phrase “comédie à tiroir” is literally “comedy drawer.” Replacing “is but poor comédie à tiroir” with “is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show” seems to be a suitable translation.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe’s Works, Part One: Wilhelm Meister’s Travels, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, G. Barrie, 1885, page 335

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Goethe: The History of a Man by Emil Ludwig, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928, page 18

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Allowing: A Portrait of Forgiving and Letting Life Love You by Holly Riley, iUniverse, November 15, 2010, page 172

Every second is of infinite value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Book of Positive Quotations, compiled and arranged by John Cook, Fairview Press, October 25, 2007, page 311

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we’ll need no other light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe: The Key to a World of Enlightenment and Enrichment by Matthew M. Radmanesh, AuthorHouse, May 30, 2006, page 180

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be
Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Materialistic Wall by Bud Carroll, Trafford Publishing, February 1, 2002, page 156

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Passion, Purpose, and Principles by Sharon Miranda, Xlibris Corporation, 2011, page 33

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Evangelical Episcopalian, Volume 16, 1904, Google eBook, page 275

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Spiritual Renewal: Transforming the Mind by Bob Perry, iUniverse, July 30, 2004, page 20

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Key Journey to Success: Thinking Ahead Will Get You Ahead by Arnaud Romeo Noume, Xlibris Corporation, July 27, 2011, page 26

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Christian Professor in the Secular University by Duane Victor Keilstrup, Xulon Press, September 30, 2010, page 76

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those Who Can, Teach by Kevin Ryan and James M. Cooper, Cengage Learning, January 1, 2012, page 172
• If Goethe did say this, he didn’t say it quite this way. According to Wikiquote, Goethe was quoted in Human Development: A Science of Growth by Justin Pikunas, 1961, page 311 as follows:

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

• Conclusion: The quote in Pikunas’ book might be based on a translation or a paraphrasing by Viktor Frankl, to whom the quote is also sometimes attributed.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Although this quote can be considered Goethe’s, it owes its existence to a liberal translation of Goethe’s play Faust, which is based on a classic (and anonymously authored) German legend. The quote first appeared in John Anster’s 1835 translation of Faust. Here are three sources from the nineteenth century, in which the two lines are spoken by the “Manager” in the “Prelude at the Theatre”:
• The Foreign Quarterly Review, edited by John George Cochrane, 1840, Google eBook, page 94
• Faust, Tauchnitz, 1867, Google eBook, page 14
• The First Part of Goethe’s Faust: The Henry Irving Edition, George Routledge and Sons, 1887, Google eBook, page 22
• Courtesy of the Goethe Society of North America, here is Stuart Atkins’ literal translation of the lines in question from Faust:

What’s left undone today, is still not done tomorrow;
to every day there is a use and purpose;
let Resoluteness promptly seize
the forelock of the Possible,
and then, reluctant to let go again,
she’s forced to carry on and be productive.

• Thie quote owes its popularity to its inclusion in The Scottish Himalayan Expedition by William H. Murray in 1951. At the end of a paragraph on page 7 that begins, “There is one elementary truth” (a quote, by the way, that is also included in Through God’s Eyes and hence, on this post), Murray writes:

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won’t even have to try. It’s a beautiful paradox: the more you open your consciousness, the fewer unpleasant events intrude themselves into your awareness.
Thaddeus Golas
The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment, Gibbs Smith, December 1, 1995, page 72

As we persist in judging one another by what we appear to be, we are all taking part in a great masquerade.
Joel Goldsmith
Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom: A Collection of 10,000 Inspirational Quotations by Andy Zubko, Motilal Banarsidass Publications, January 1, 2000, page 280

Courage, in its final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.
Dr. Kurt Goldstein
The Organism, Zone Books, April 19, 1995, page 240

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but, if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon
Letters of General C.G. Gordon to his Sister, M.A. Gordon, Macmillan, 1888, page 32

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian
The Natural Life: How to Change the World by Just Being Natural by Matthew Minarik and Margaret Minarik, Tate Publishing, August 16, 2011, page 126

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Sheila Graham
The Personal Companion: A Workbook for Singles by Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt, Simon and Schuster, December 1, 1995, Day 248

See where your own energy wants to go, not where you think it shouldgo. Do something because it feels right, not because it makes sense. Follow the spiritual impulse.
Maye Hayes Grieco
The Kitchen Mystic: Spiritual Lessons Hidden in Everyday Life, Hazelden, 1992, page 83

A life uncommanded now is uncommanded; a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed; a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely.
David Grayson
Great Possessions, Echo Library, 2006, page 17

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
• Confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
Germaine Greer
The Female Eunuch, McGraw-Hill, 1980, page 237

Start some kind word on its travels. There is no telling where the good it may do will stop.
Wilfred Grenfell
Know Your Limits-Then Ignore Them by John Mason, Insight International, Inc., 2000, page 69

To be able to stand in the midst of darkness and live as though all about you was light is the final test of the human spirit.
Edward H. Griggs
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, compiled and arranged by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, September 30, 2006, page 226
• Although this quote is listed on a handful of websites, this is the only book in which I could find it

We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.
Martha Grimes
A Woman’s Guide to Finding Joy in Your Job by Pat Healey, Advantage Media Group, 2008, page 51

What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but that He approve ours.
Helga Bergold Gross
Healing the Heart of Emotional Wounds by C. P. Varkey, The Bombay Saint Paul Society, 1997, page 74

If you’re going to do something different with your life because you’ve found out you’ve got a disease, then you’re not living as you should be.
Arlo Guthrie
Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease by Dean Ornish, Random House Digital, Inc., December 30, 1995, Google eBook, page 114

It usually happens that the more faithfully a person follows the inspirations he receives, the more does he experience new inspirations which ask increasingly more of him.
Joseph de Guibert
The Theology of the Spiritual Life, Sheed and Ward, 1953, page 116

Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer.
Terri Guillemets
Quotations by Terri Guillemets, founder of The Quote Garden website.
• This quote is commonly attributed to Verbena Woods, a pen name used by Guillemets; confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital.
Terri Guillemets
• This quote is commonly attributed to Astrid Alauda, a pen name used by Terri Guillemets, founder of The Quote Garden website; confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

Admitting errors clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
Know Your Limits-Then Ignore Them by John Mason, Insight International, Inc., 2000, page 25

Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself—only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff
Views from the Real World: Early Talks in Moscow, Essentuki, Tiflis, Berlin, London, Paris, New York, and Chicago, Dutton, September 10, 1975, page 273

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. . . . It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff
Spirituality for Dummies by Sharon Janis, John Wiley & Sons, January 22, 2008, page 260

You can never outdream God.
Melissa Guyton
Guideposts magazine, September 2007
• Confirmed and approved by the author’s mother via e-mail

Change no circumstance of my life. Change me.
Sri Gyanamata
God Alone: The Life and Letters of a Saint, Self-Realization Fellowship, 1984; hardcover edition 2013, page 91

The things that happen to us do not matter; what we become through them does.
Sri Gyanamata
Only Love by Sri Daya Mata, Self-Realization Fellowship, 1976; hardcover edition 2006, “The View of the Wise Toward Life’s Experiences,” page 74

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Hafiz
Poem: “Your Mother and My Mother”
The Gift, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass, gift edition, August 1, 1999, page 39

When all your desires are distilled
You will cast just two votes:
To love more, and be happy.
Hafiz
Poem: “Your Seed Pouch”
The Gift, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass, gift edition, August 1, 1999, page 41

This sky where we live
Is no place to lose your wings
So love, love, love.
Hafiz
Poem: “This Sky”
The Gift, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass, gift edition, August 1, 1999, page 169

Everyone is God speaking.
Why not be polite and listen to him?
Hafiz
Poem: “Why Not Be Polite”
The Gift, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass, gift edition, August 1, 1999, page 269

Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let it ferment and season you
As few human or even divine ingredients can.
Hafiz
Poem: “My Eyes So Soft”
The Gift, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin Compass, gift edition, August 1, 1999, page 277

I wish I could show you,
When you are lonely or in darkness,
The Astonishing Light of your own Being.
Hafiz
Poem: “My Brilliant Image”
I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz, Sufism Reoriented, first edition, January 1996, page 13

For I can see in your eyes
That you are exquisitely woven with the finest silk and wool
And that Pattern upon your soul has the signature of God
And all your moods and colors of love
Come from His Divine vats of dye and gold.
Hafiz
Poem: “Exquisitely Woven”
I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz, Sufism Reoriented, first edition, January 1996, page 35

Ever since happiness heard your name,
It has been running through the streets
Trying to find you.
Hafiz
Poem: “Several Times in the Last Week”
I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz, Sufism Reoriented, first edition, January 1996, page 123

Pure Divine Love is no meek priest
Or tight banker.
It will smash all your windows
And only then throw in the holy gifts.
Hafiz
Poem: “It Cuts the Plow Reins”
I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz, Sufism Reoriented, first edition, January 1996, page 135

This place where you are right now
God circled on a map for you.
Hafiz
Poem: “This Place Where You Are Right Now”
The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems, translated by Daniel Ladinsky, Penguin, January 1, 2003, page 12

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away
Earning enough love to break their own chains.
Hafiz
Poem: “Purpose”
The Soul in Love: Classic Poems of Ecstasy and Exaltation compiled by Deepak Chopra, Harmony, April 10, 2001, page 53

All a sane man can ever think about is giving love.
Hafiz
Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It by Alan Cohen, Bantam, November 29, 2005, page 188

It is not known how far is the destination, but so much I know:
That music from afar is coming to my ears.
Hafiz
The Mysticism of Sound and Music by Hazrat Inayat Khan, Shambhala, revised edition, September 3, 1996, page 20

May the gratitude in my heart kiss all the universe.
Hafiz
• Although this quote is on numerous websites, I cannot find it in any book

Some people have a hard time understanding how God can exist. They don’t seem to have a problem believing that everything started with an explosion from a tiny point at the center of the universe. But, where did that tiny point come from? It takes as much faith to believe that the universe came from nothing as it does to believe that an intelligent eternal being created it.
Duane Alan Hahn
RandomTerrain.com; confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

Faith does not change your destination.
Duane Alan Hahn
RandomTerrain.com; confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

There will never be conclusive proof that God exists because that would take away your freedom to believe that there is no God.
Duane Alan Hahn
RandomTerrain.com; confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.
Ole Hallesby
Prayer, Augsburg Fortress Publishing, 1975, page 136

As impossible as it is for us to take a breath in the morning large enough to last us until noon, so impossible is it to pray in the morning in such a way as to last us until noon. . . . Let your prayers ascend to Him constantly, audibly or silently, as circumstances throughout the day permit.
Ole Hallesby
Prayer, Augsburg Fortress Publishing, 1975, page 146

As white snow flakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.
Ole Hallesby
Prayer: A World Famous Classic to Deepen and Enrich Your Prayer Life, Augsburg Books, March 1, 1994, page 172

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.
Edith Hamilton
Witness to the Truth: Christ and his Interpreters, W.W. Norton, 1948, page 213

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Markings, translated by Leif Sjöberg and W. H. Auden, Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1964, page 33

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Markings, Ballantine Books, April 12, 1985, page 45

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld: A Biography by Emery Kelen, Meredith Press, 1969, page 35

It is not possible to judge any event as simply fortunate or unfortunate, good or bad. It is like the old story about the farmer and the horse. You must travel throughout all of time and space to know the true impact of any event. Every success contains some difficulties, and every failure contributes to increased wisdom or future success. Every event is both fortunate and unfortunate. Fortunate and unfortunate, good and bad, exist only in our perceptions.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966, Riverhead Trade, December 1, 1999, pages 104-105

Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Wisdom Walk: Nine Practices for Creating Peace and Balance from the World’s Spiritual Traditions by Sage Bennet, New World Library, March 8,, 2007, page 34

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace in Our Hearts, Peace in the World: Meditations of Hope and Healing by Ruth Fishel, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., October 7, 2008, page 133

True Dharma seekers who live in the world use their daily activity as a polishing tool. Outwardly they may appear to be very busy, like flint striking steel, making sparks everywhere. But inwardly they silently grow, for although they may be working very hard, they are working for the sake of the work and not for the profits it will bring them. Unattached to the results of their labor, they transcend the frenetic to reach the Way’s essential tranquility. Doesn’t a rough and tumbling stream also sparkle like striking flints—while it polishes into smoothness every stone in its path?
Hanshan Deqing
Autobiography and Maxims of Master Han Shan, H.K. Buddhist Book Distributor, 1995, page 65

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare
Guesses at Truth by Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare, Macmillan and Co., 1884, page 502

We act in such a way that people finally comply and act in the way we feared they would act. You fear a person will leave you, and because of that fear, you act in such a way that finally causes the person to actually leave.
Bill Harris
Adapted from the essay: “Nine Principles for Conscious Living”
• Confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

Forgiveness does not equal forgetting. It is about healing the memory of the harm, not erasing it.
Ken Hart
First Aid for the Betrayed by Richard Alan, Trafford Publishing, November 20, 2006, page 128
• This quote apparently originated in the October 2000 issue of the UK magazine, Zest

Intuition speaks without emotion and with no value judgment attached to it. I am able to receive an intuitive message as if I am watching a movie that doesn’t involve me.
Kathryn Harwig
Adapted from the essay, “Intuition Versus Self Talk”; confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
Vaclav Havel
Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala by Vaclav Havel, Vintage, April 3, 1991, page 67

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel
Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala by Vaclav Havel, Vintage, April 3, 1991, page 181

Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.
Vaclav Havel
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen, Penguin, 2001, page 20

For it’s only the illusion of individuality that is the origin of all suffering—when one realizes that one is the universe, complete and at one with all that is, forever without end, then no further suffering is possible.
Dr. David R. Hawkins
Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, Hay House, Inc., 1995, page 16

Time, then, is much like a hologram . . . There’s no beginning or end to a hologram, it’s already everywhere, complete—in fact, the appearance of being “unfinished” is part of its completeness. . . . Our perception of events happening in time is analogous to a traveler watching the landscape unfold before him. But to say that the landscape unfolds before the traveler is merely a figure of speech—nothing is actually unfolding; nothing is actually becoming manifest. There’s only the progression of awareness.
Dr. David R. Hawkins
Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, Hay House, Inc., 1995, page 232

My narrative:
Your next loving thought may tip the scales. In his groundbreaking book, Power vs. Force, Dr. David R. Hawkins scientifically substantiates how the most enlightened 15 percent of the world’s population counterbalances the negativity of the remaining 85 percent of the world’s people.
In Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, Hay House, Inc., 1995, page 282, Hawkins writes:

Although only 15 percent of the world’s population is above the critical consciousness level of 200, the collective power of that 15 percent has the weight to counterbalance the negativity of the remaining 85 percent of the world’s people. Because the scale of power advances logarithmically, a single avatar at a consciousness level of 1,000 can, in fact, totally counterbalance the collective negativity of all of mankind.

Spiritual truth, then, is universally true and without variation through time or place. It always brings peace, harmony, accord, love, compassion, and mercy. Truth can be identified by these qualities. All else is the invention of the ego.
Dr. David R. Hawkins
The Eye of the I, Veritas Publishing, 2001, page 40

We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become. Thus, every spiritual aspirant serves the world.
Dr. David R. Hawkins
The Eye of the I, Veritas Publishing, 2001, page 69

Ask to be the servant of the Lord, a vehicle of divine love, a channel of God’s will. Ask for direction and divine assistance, and surrender all personal will through devotion. Dedicate one’s life to the service of God. Choose love and peace above all other options. Commit to the goal of unconditional love and compassion for all life in all its expression and surrender all judgment to God.
Dr. David R. Hawkins
The Eye of the I, Veritas Publishing, 2001, page 201

It is the ultimate human paradox that man’s dependence on perception precludes his being able to know his own identity.
Dr. David R. Hawkins
The Eye of the I, Veritas Publishing, 2001, page 220

The world of the ego is like a house of mirrors through which the ego wanders, lost and confused, as it chases the images in one mirror after another. Human life is characterized by endless trials and errors to escape the maze. At times, for many people, and possibly for most, the world of mirrors becomes a house of horrors that gets worse and worse. The only way out of the circuitous wanderings is through the pursuit of spiritual truth.
Dr. David R. Hawkins
I: Reality and Subjectivity, Veritas Publishing, January 30, 2003, page 393

Out of an unrestricted love for God arises the willingness to surrender all motives, except to serve God completely. To be the servant of God becomes one’s goal rather than enlightenment.
Dr. David R. Hawkins
Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self: Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., edited by Scott Jeffrey, Hay House, Inc., August 1, 2011, page 109

My narrative:
Given that psychiatrist and author Dr. David. R. Hawkins defines consciousness as “an impersonal quality of Divinity expressed as awareness,” think of God as an acronym for Governing Omnipresent Divinity.
• In Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self: Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., edited by Scott Jeffrey, Hay House, Inc., August 1, 2011, page 211, Hawkins writes:

Consciousness is an impersonal quality of Divinity expressed as awareness.

The difference in power between a loving thought and a fearful thought is so enormous as to be beyond the capacity of the human imagination to easily comprehend.
Dr. David R. Hawkins
Creativity Revealed: Discovering the Source of Inspiration by Scott Jeffrey, Creative Crayon Publishers, 2008, pages 85-86
• Foreword by Dr. David R. Hawkins

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1878, Google eBook, page 166

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream: it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages From the American Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 1, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1896, Google eBook, page 26

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Dictionary of Thoughts, edited by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Co., 1908, Google eBook, page 215

Your thoughts are like the seeds you plant in your garden. Your beliefs are like the soil in which you plant these seeds.
Louise Hay
Life!: Reflections on Your Journey, Easyread Large Edition, ReadHowYouWant.com, December 9, 2009, page xi

My narrative:
As Louise Hay explained in You Can Heal Your Life, your beliefs and ideas about yourself are often the cause of your emotional problems and physical maladies.
• This is Hay’s foundational philosophy. It’s expressed in “Some Points of My Philosophy” on page 5 in You Can Heal Your Life, Easyread Large Edition, ReadHowYouWant.com, December 21, 2009

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
Characteristics: in the Manner of Rochefoucault’s Maxims, C. and W. Reynell, 1837, Google eBook, page 37

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
William Hazlitt
The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and Manners, Volume 1, Archibald Constable and Co., 1817, Google eBook, page 23

No truly great man ever thought himself so.
William Hazlitt
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugutive Writings, edited by William Ernest Henley, J. M. Dent & Co., 1904, Google eBook, page 542

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart.
William Hazlitt
Treasury of Thought, J. R. Osgood and Co., 1872, Google eBook, page 275

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
A Dictionary of Thoughts, edited by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Co., 1908, Google eBook, page 6
• Wikiquote sources this quote to “On the Conversations of Lords,”New Monthly Magazine, April 1826

Remember: one lie does not cost you one truth but the truth.
Friedrich Hebbel
The Attitude of Leadership: Taking the Lead and Keeping It by Keith D. Harrell, John Wiley and Sons, August 7, 2003, Google eBook, page 29

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
Dr. H. F. Hedge
The Annals of Hygiene, Volumes 3-4, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1888, Google eBook, page 622

You can’t recover from what you do not understand.
Lillian Hellman
Dancing at the River’s Edge: A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate Life With Chronic Illness by Alida Brill and Michael D. Lockshin, IPG, January 1, 2009, Google eBook, page 115
• This quote apparently originated in Hellman’s 1980 novel, Maybe: A Story

The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms, Google eBook, HarperCollins, January 31, 2012, chapter 29

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.
Matthew Henry
Many Thoughts of Many Minds, compiled and edited by Henry Southgate, Griffin, Bohn, and Company, 1862, Google eBook, page 208

An active faith can give thanks for a promise even though it be not yet performed, knowing that God’s bonds are as good as ready money.
Matthew Henry
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: a Cyclopædia of Quotations from the Literature of All Ages, compiled and edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, W.B. Ketcham, 1895, Google eBook, page 241

Prayers not felt by us, are seldom heard by God.
Philip Henry
The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry by Matthew Henry and Philip Henry, Joseph Ogle Robinson, 1833, Google eBook, page 142

Let prayer be the key of the morning, and the bolt at the night.
Philip Henry
The life of the Rev. Philip Henry, A.M.: With Funeral Sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry by Matthew Henry, printed for B. J. Holdsworth, 1825, Google eBook, page 71
• At the bottom of page 71, Matthew Henry quotes from Thomas Fuller’s Fuller’s Abel Redivivus that Bishop Ridley “used to make his religious addresses unto God, both as a key to open the door in the morning to his daily employments, and as a bolt, to shut and close them up all at evening again.” If I understand this note correctly, the quote attributed to Philip Henry (1631-1696), who was Matthew’s father, originated in longer form from Thomas Fuller (1608-1661).

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
George Herbert
Fight Fair: Winning at Conflict Without Losing at Love by Tim Downs and Joy Downs, Moody Publishers, July 1, 2010, Google eBook, page 77

Thou that hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, a grateful heart. . . .
Not thankful, when it pleaseth me;
As if thy blessings had spare days:
But such a heart, whose pulse may be Thy praise.
George Herbert
Poem: “Gratefulness”
The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, Pickering, 1838, Google eBook, pages 125-126

Then comes the faith and the insight that All is God. And the darkness of “the world of confusion,” of the confusion of good and evil, retreats from our sight. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel
Man’s Quest for God: Studies in Prayer and Symbolism, Scribner, 1954, page 7

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say No to oneself.
Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel
The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, January 1, 1965, page 44

Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for the transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel
Who Is Man?, Stanford University Press, June 1, 1965, pages 88-89

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation, and a single happiness, and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. Taste how sweet it is in its essence, give yourself to it, do not meet it with aversion. It is only your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
Herman Hesse
Celebrating Life: Catching the Thieves That Steal Your Joy by Luci Swindoll, NavPress, August 1, 1989, page 54

Suffering is magnificent music—the moment you give ear to it. But you never listen to it: you always have a different, private, stubborn music and melody in your ear which you will not relinquish and with which the music of suffering will not harmonize.
Herman Hesse
Celebrating Life: Catching the Thieves That Steal Your Joy by Luci Swindoll, NavPress, August 1, 1989, page 54

I know not by what methods rare,
But this I know: God answers prayer.
I know not if the blessing sought
Will come in just the guise I thought.
I leave my prayer to him alone
Whose will is wiser than my own.
Eliza M. Hickok
The Book of Positive Quotations, compiled and arranged by John Cook, Fairview Press, October 25, 2007, page 198
• While the above six-line version of this poem is widely used today, the original poem had at least four additional lines. The poem appeared in a number of publications in the late nineteenth century, often without attribution, and in slightly different versions. This publication from 1887 does include the four extra lines and attributes it to Hickok:

I know not by what methods rare,
But this I know, God answers prayer.
I know not when he sends the word
That tells us fervent prayer is heard.
I know it cometh soon or late;
Therefore, we need to pray and wait.
I know not if the blessing sought
Will come in just the guise I thought.
I leave my prayers with him alone
Whose will is wiser than my own.

Here’s a book that added two lines at the end:

Assured that he will grant my quest,
Or send an answer far more blest.

Good feels good.
Esther Hicks
A popular phrase in the Abraham-Hicks teachings

The only thing that holds you back from getting what you want is paying attention to what you don’t want.
Esther Hicks
• Although this quote is listed on a number of websites, I am still hoping to source it more definitively

The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we do not, ourselves, understand and follow its truths. The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer. For centuries, others have sought their visions. They prepare themselves, so that if the Creator desires them to know their life’s purpose, then a vision would be revealed. To be blessed with visions is not enough . . . we must live them!
High Eagle
• Confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail
Saints and Scholars: Be More, Do More, Have More by Gavin G. Gregan, AuthorHouse, 2010, page 291

Honor isn’t about making the right choices. It’s about dealing with the consequences.
Highlander: The Series
• Dialogue spoken by Midori Koto, a character played by actress Tamlyn Tomita, in “The Samurai,” the September 26, 1994 episode of the American drama/adventure TV show, Highlander: The Series. I have not been able to identify who wrote the script for this episode.
Blood Sacrifice by Maria Lima, Simon and Schuster, August 30, 2011, page 39

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
Napoleon Hill
Think and Grow Rich, Arc Manor LLC, July 30, 2007, page 95

If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
And if I am for myself alone, what am I?
And if not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel
The Life and Teachings of Hillel by Yitzhak Buxbaum, Rowman & Littlefield, September 1, 2008, Google eBook, page 268

Believe in the nature within you, the divine nature, that you are in very deed a son or daughter of the living God. There is something of divinity with you, something that stands high and tall and noble.
Gordon B. Hinckley
• Although this quote is listed on a handful of websites, I am still hoping to source it more definitively

Failure is God’s own tool for carving some of the finest outlines in the character of his children.
Thomas Hodgkin
Seasons of the Spirit: Daily Meditations for Adults in Mid-Life by Sally Coleman and Maria Porter, Hazelden Publishing, March 1, 1994, page 5

Don’t rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.
Russ von Hoelscher
How to Achieve Total Success: How to Use the Power of Creative Thought, George Stern Profit Ideas, June 1, 1990, page 234

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
The Passionate State of Mind, Harper & Brothers, first edition, 1955, aphorism 123, page 77

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
The Passionate State of Mind, Harper & Brothers, first edition, 1955, aphorism 280, page 151

How much easier is self sacrifice than self-realization!
Eric Hoffer
Essay: “Reflections on the Human Condition”
The American Spectator, Volumes 6-7, Saturday Evening Club, 1972, page 27

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
The Optimism Advantage: 50 Simple Truths to Transform Your Attitudes and Actions into Results by Terry L. Paulson, John Wiley and Sons, March 22, 2010, page 54

As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.
Isabelle Holland
The Long Search, Thorndike Press, 1991, page 223

Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence, is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Complete Works: Gold-foil, C. Scribner’s & Sons, 1901, page 109

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes
15 Minutes of Peace with God by Emilie Barnes, Harvest House Publishers, January 1, 2003, page 6

Fighting any adverse condition only increases its power over us.
Ernest Holmes
The Science of Mind, Penguin, August 1, 1998, Glossary entry for “Nonresistance”

Almost every type and condition of illness has been in some way or other related to our pattern of thinking, a pattern of thinking that apparently is contradictory to the spiritual pattern of a perfect and healthy body. . . . We must get ourselves and our limited human thinking out of the way so that the Divine pattern of perfection can fully express itself in us. . . . The doctor can assist the body mechanically through surgery and medication; we can assist through how we think and act.
Ernest Holmes
A New Design for LIving by Ernest Holmes and Willis Hayes Kinnear, Prentice-Hall, 1959, pages 158-159

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Little, Brown and Company, 1900, Google eBook, page 17

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, edited by John T. Morse, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1896, page 264

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, John Camden Hotten, Google eBook, pages 201-202

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Poem: “The Voiceless”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, John Camden Hotten, Google eBook, page 229

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1872, Google eBook, page 310

Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.
Gerald Holton
Einstein, History, and Other Passions: The Rebellion against Science at the End of the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, second edition, September 15, 2000, page 197
• Holton here paraphrases Albert Einstein’s thoughts on thoughts, but the phrasing is Holton’s. He writes:

Here Einstein is saying: Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace
A Real Life Christian Spiritual Journey: A Story of Real Life Spiritual Experiences on the Way Back to God by Richard Ferguson, AuthorHouse, January 20, 2010, page 170

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
A Dictionary of Thoughts, edited by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Co., 1908, Google eBook, page 6

The test of character is the amount of strain it can bear.
Charles Houston
Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Genna Rae McNeil, University of Pennsylvania Press, August 1, 1984, page 191

A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
Vernon Howard
The Power of Your Supermind, Prentice Hall, 1990, page 166

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
Vernon Howard
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, compiled and arranged by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, September 30, 2006, page 425
• Chang attributes this quote to the 1967 edition of Howard’s book, The Power of Your Supermind. I have not yet been able to locate it there.

Any negative state, like worry, is like your shadow. If you run away, it pursues, but by standing still you see that it has no movement except that which you give it by running away.
Vernon Howard
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, compiled and arranged by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, September 30, 2006, page 645

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
Plain People, Dodd, Mead & Company, January 1, 1929, page 305

Men substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking in the footsteps of men who walked with God.
William Charles Braithwaite
The Message and Mission of Quakerism, The John C. Winston Company, 1912, page 28

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
She Inc.: A Woman’s Guide to Maximizing Her Career Potential by Kelley Keehn, Insomniac Press, October 31, 2008, page 83

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Charles Evans Hughes
Ethics and Citizenship byJohn Walter Wayland, The McClure Company, Inc., 1924, page 208

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Hold Fast to Dreams, edited by Arna Bontemps, Silver Burdett, 1979, page 19
• Wikiquote states that this poem was first published in Golden Slippers: An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers, edited by Arna Bontemps, Harper & Row, 1941. I have not yet been able to locate it there.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables, translated by Charles Edwin Wilbour, Carleton, Publisher, 1863, Google eBook, page 98

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables, Volume 2, Penguin Books, 1980, page 108

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables: Fantine, Carleton, 1862, Google eBook, page 127

To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo
The Musical World of Boublil & Schönberg by Margaret Vermette, Hal Leonard Corporation, 2006, page 135
• From the musical Les Misérables, based on Hugo’s 1862 novel

Be like the bird that, halting in her flight
Awhile, on boughs too slight,
Feels them give way beneath her and yet sings,
Knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
The Critic, Volume 4, Good Literature Publishing Co., 1885, Google eBook, page 216

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo
The Enlightened Savage: Using Primal Instincts for Personal & Business Success by Anthony Hernandez, Morgan James Publishing, April 1, 2006, page 119

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations from All Ages, compiled and edited by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, HarperCollins, September 16, 1987, page 107

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
Leigh Hunt
The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side, E. Moxon, 1840, page 34

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Leigh Hunt
The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty, John Chapman, 1853, page 27

You know you have forgiven someone when he or she has harmless passage through your mind.
Rev. Karyl Huntley
Leading from the Lions’ Den: Leadership Principles from Every Book of the Bible by Tom Harper, B&H Publishing Group, 2010, page 173

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
Essay: “Variations on a Philosopher”
Themes and Variations, Books for Libraries Press, 1970, page 69

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.
Aldous Huxley
Point Counter Point, Dalkey Archive Press, 1928, page 10

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley
Proper Studies: The Proper Study of Mankind Is Man, Chatto & Windus, 1957, page 178

A person’s single most important task is to discover the divinity of ordinary things, ordinary lives, and ordinary minds.
Aldous Huxley
The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living by Janet Luhrs, Random House Digital, Inc., November 3, 1997, page 155
• Luhrs and others attribute this quote to the 1945 edition of Huxley’s book, The Perennial Philosophy. I have not yet been able to locate it there.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley: Complete Essays 1920-1925, Ivan R. Dee, 2000, page 74

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
Henrik Ibsen
The Discoverer by Jan Kjærstad, translated by Barbara Haveland, Open Letter Books, 2009, page 38

One must not lose sight of practical matters in order to pursue spiritual ones. The superior person maintains a proper balance.
I Ching
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, compiled and arranged by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, September 30, 2006, page 79
• Chang attributes this quote to the 1997 edition of The Photographic I Ching. I have not yet been able to locate it there.

The only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone open the mind of a man to all that is hidden from others.
Igjugarjuk
Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell, Joseph Campbell Foundation, April 30, 2011, Google eBook

Receive, O Lord, my entire liberty, memory, understanding, and my whole will. All that I have and possess, thou hast given me, and to thee I restore them. Give me only your love and your grace, and I will be satisfied; I desire nothing more.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, with Meditations and Prayers by Father Liborio Siniscalchi, Dublin: James Duffy, 1864, page 29

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
The Book of Positive Quotations, compiled and arranged by John Cook, Fairview Press, October 25, 2007, page 624

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments—there are consequences.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 6, C. P. Farrell, 1909, page 18

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 12, C. P. Farrell, 1909, page 270

If we wish to live honorable lives—we will give to every other human being every right that we claim for ourselves.
Robert G. Ingersoll
• Wikiquote sources this quote to The Trial of C.B. Reynolds, for Blasphemy, Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1887

Just come to see that everything is passing on,
That nothing in your mind remains the same for even the span of a breath.
If you see like that for even a moment,
Then for that moment you are free.
Ji Aoi Isshi
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, compiled and arranged by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, September 30, 2006, page 390

The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
Isocrates
Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture Volume III: The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato by Werner Jaeger, translated by Gilbert Highet, Oxford University Press, April 24, 1986, page 99

You cannot be too active as regards your own efforts; you cannot be too dependent as regards Divine grace. Do every thing as if God did nothing; depend upon God as if He did every thing.
John Angell James
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: a Cyclopædia of Quotations from the Literature of All Ages, compiled and edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, W.B. Ketcham, 1895, Google eBook, page 241

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
P. D. James
Devices and Desires, Vintage, May 11, 2004, page 350

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
William James
The WIll to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1921, page 47

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
Rosicrucian Digest, January, 1957, Kessinger Publishing, July 26, 2004, page 26

Relationships, of all kinds, are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold on to some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.
Kaleel Jamison
The Nibble Theory and the Kernel of Power: A Book about Leadership, Self-Empowerment, and Personal Growth, Paulist Press, July 1, 2004, page 63

Miracles can be defined as shifts in perception that remove the blocks to our awareness of love’s presence.
Gerald Jampolsky
Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing, Simon and Schuster, October 4, 2011, page 100

My narrative:
Psychiatrist and author Gerald Jampolsky wrote that, in every encounter you have with another human being, that person is either offering love to you or is in need of love from you.
• In Teach Only Love: The Twelve Principles of Attitudinal Healing, Easyread Large Edition, ReadHowYouWant.com, December 3, 2008, page 208, Jampolsky writes:

We can always see ourselves and others as either extending love or giving a call for help. Rather than seeing anger and attack, it is always possible for us to recognize a call for help and to answer with love.

The only way to be loved is to be and to appear lovely; to possess and display kindness, benevolence, tenderness; to be free from selfishness and to be alive to the welfare of others.
John Jay
Reason, Justice and Common Sense: A Collection of Essays from the Sierra Sage by Leonard A. Semas, Sierra Sage, 2009, page 216

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Richard Jefferies
The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1883, Google eBook, page 165

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1900, page 410

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1900, page 697

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
• This quote may not be Jefferson’s. According to Wikiquote, Jefferson was quoted as saying this in CareerTracking: 26 Success Shortcuts to the Top by James Calano and Jeff Salzman, Simon and Schuster, 1988, page 207. No earlier occurence of this quote has yet been located. It was used in an address by President Bill Clinton on March 31, 1997, and is sometimes cited to the 1787 edition of Notes on the State of Virginia.

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.
Saint Jerome
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, compiled and arranged by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, September 30, 2006, front cover

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
Jesus of Nazareth
Mark 12:30
King James Version

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Jesus of Nazareth
Matthew 7:7
King James Version

Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Jesus of Nazareth
Matthew 6:8
King James Version

He that believeth in Me, the works that I do he shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do.
Jesus of Nazareth
John 14:12
21st Century King James Version

The Kingdom of God cometh not with outward show. Neither shall they say, “Lo, it is here!” or “Lo, it is there!” For behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.
Jesus of Nazareth
Luke 17: 20-21
21st Century King James Version

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Jesus of Nazareth
Mark 8:35-36
21st Century King James Version

But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Jesus of Nazareth
Matthew 6:33
21st Century King James Version

Give, and it shall be given to you . . . For with the same measure that ye give to others, it shall be measured to you again.
Jesus of Nazareth
Luke 6:38
Webster’s Bible Translation

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.
Jesus of Nazareth
Matthew 7:12
New International Version

I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
Jesus of Nazareth
John 16:33
New International Version

I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Jesus of Nazareth
Mark 11:23-24
New International Version 1984

Act and God will act!
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc: Her Story by Régine Pernoud and Marie-Véronique Clin, translated by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Palgrave Macmillan, September 28, 1999, page 59

When the bull’s-eye becomes as big in your mind as an elephant, you are sure to hit it.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
A Daily Dose of Sanity: A Five-Minute Soul Recharge for Every Day of the Year by Alan Cohen, Hay House, Inc., February 15, 2010, Google eBook, May 12 entry

The image of God is found essentially and personally in all mankind. Each possesses it whole, entire and undivided, and all together not more than one alone. In this way we are all one, intimately united in our eternal image, which is the image of God and the source in us of all our life.
John of Ruysbroeck
The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley, HarperCollins, February 14, 2012, Google eBook, chapter four

We behold what we are, and we are what we behold.
John of Ruysbroeck
The Bhagavad Gita, translated by Eknath Easwaran, Nilgiri Press, second edition, May 17, 2007, page 29

Oh, then, soul, most beautiful among all the creatures, so anxious to know the dwelling place of your Beloved that you may go in quest of Him and be united with Him, now we are telling you that you yourself are His Dwelling and His secret chamber and hiding place.
Saint John of the Cross
The Prayers of Saint John of the Cross, compiled by Alphonse Ruiz, New City Press, 1991, page 24

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer, is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
Saint John of the Cross
The Collected Works of St John of the Cross, Volume 2, translated by David Lewis, Cosimo, Inc., June 1, 2007, page 586

The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.
Saint John of the Cross
The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley, HarperCollins, February 14, 2012, Google eBook

And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering; and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love.
Saint John of the Cross
The Ego-Less Self: Achieving Peace & Tranquility Beyond All Understanding by Carwell C. Nuckols, HCI, September 1, 2010, page 213

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
The Works of Samuel Johnson, printed for T. Tegg, 1824, Google eBook, page 262

Sir, he throws away his money, without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous, that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
Samuel Johnson
The Life of Johnson by James Boswell, John Murray, 1876, Google eBook, page 403, referring to English sailors

The passage of time, though absolute and inescapable, is more a function of psychology and perspective than a physical reality.
Toby Johnson
Gay Spirituality: Gay Identity and the Transformation of Human Consciousness, Lethe Press, 2004, page 262

Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Charlie “Tremendous” Jones
101 Best Ways to Be Your Best by Michael Angier, Success Networks, 2005, page 110

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
How to Save Your Own Life, Tarcher, July 6, 2006, page 263

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
The American Review of Reviews, Volume 38 by Albert Shaw, 1908, Google eBook, page 223

While you have a thing it can be taken from you. But when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
James Joyce
Exiles: A Play in Three Acts, B. W. Huebsch, 1918, Google eBook, page 51

We have been loved since before the beginning.
Julian of Norwich
After the Darkest Hour: How Suffering Begins the Journey to Wisdomby Kathleen A. Brehony, Macmillan, September 1, 2001, page 182

From the beginning I had a sense of destiny, as though my life was assigned to me by fate and had to be fulfilled. This gave me an inner security, and, though I could never prove it to myself, it proved itself to me. I did not have this certainty, it had me.
Carl Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, Random House Digital, Inc., Apr 23, 1989, Google eBook

To round itself out, life calls not for perfection but for completeness; and for this the “thorn in the flesh” is needed, the suffering of defects without which there is no progress and no ascent.
Carl Jung
The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 12: Psychology and Alchemy, Princeton University Press, 1980, page 159

One does not dream: one is dreamed. We “undergo” the dream, we are the objects.
Carl Jung
Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where, edited by David L. Sills and Robert King Merton, Transaction Publishers, 2000, page 111
• According to Sills and Merotn, this quote is from The Psychology of Jung by Jolande Jacobi. I have not yet been able to locate it there.

We may perhaps, through belief in our own most patent rectitude, succeed in escaping all adverse criticism and in deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience, a still small voice says to us: “Something is out of tune.”
Carl Jung
Psychological Reflections: An Anthology of the Writings of C. G. Jung, Harper, 1961

A whole person is one who has both walked with God and wrestled with the devil.
Carl Jung
Be Careful What You Pray For . . . You Might Just Get It by Larry Dossey, HarperCollins, September 23, 1998, page 7

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Jung
Wishing: How to Fulfill Your Heart’s Desires by Elizabeth Harper, Simon and Schuster, May 6, 2008, page 46

My life often seemed to me like a story that has no beginning and no end. I had the feeling that I was an historical fragment, an excerpt for which the preceding and succeeding text was missing.
I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries
and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer;
that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.
Carl Jung
The Memorist by M. J. Rose, MIRA, April 1, 2010, page 326

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
Bring Your Vision to Life: The Guide to Turning What If? Into Reality by Ralph McCall, Destinee Media, 2000, page 31

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung
Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices that Create Miracles by Caroline Myss, Simon and Schuster, August 31, 2004, page 144
• According to WIkiquote, this quote is from the 1943 edition of The Psychology of the Unconscious. I have not yet been able to locate it there.

My narrative:
In a famous 1959 BBC interview, host John Freeman asked Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, “Do you now believe in God?” Jung responded, “I don’t need to believe . . . I know.”
• Here are two sources that each offer interesting details:
Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul: An Illustrated Biography by Claire Dunne, Continuum International Publishing Group, July 4, 2002, page 200
Jung, Ramana Maharshi and Eastern Meditation by Dr. J. Glenn Friesen

My narrative:
Carl Jung coined the term “synchronicity” to explain these meaningful coincidences, this evidence of the sacred in everyday life.
• This Carl Jung website explains how he came up with the concept of synchronicity after catching an insect during a ppsychotherapy session

There is nothing that in the end, cannot be forgiven, but there remains much that is inexcusable.
Vladimir Jankélévitch
Popular paraphrasing from Forgiveness, University of Chicago Press, 2005, page 156:

There is an inexcusable, but there is not an unforgivable. Forgiveness is there to forgive precisely what no excuse would know how to excuse: for there is no misdeed that is so grave that we cannot in the last recourse forgive it.

At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Hyperion, 1994, page 64

Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.
Myla Kabat-Zinn
Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla Kabat-Zinn and Jon Kabat-Zinn, Hyperion, April 15, 1998, page 8

Wherever you are is the entry point.
Kabir
Prayers to the Great Creator: Prayers and Declarations for a Meaningful Life by Julia Cameron, Tarcher, first edition, January 7, 2010, page 289

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what?
Kabir
The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of “Enough” by Julia Cameron, Tarcher, January 5, 2012, page 110

When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Kabir
The Tenth Door: An Adventure Through the Jungles of Enlightenmentby Michele Hebert, Emerald Book Company, second edition, November 21, 2011, page 289

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections, Schocken Books, 1970, page 184

Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing, and Compassion by Mary Mackenzie, PuddleDancer Press, October 28, 2005, page 289

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku, Random House Digital, Inc., March 22, 2011, page 350

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Practical Reason, NuVision Publications, LLC, September 30, 2005, page 125

When the five senses and the mind are stilled, when the reasoning intellect rests in silence, then begins the highest path.
The Katha Upanishad
Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings by Richard Hooper, Sanctuary Publications, Inc., September 30, 2007, page 34

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
What Color is Your Paradigm by Howard Edson, The Management Advantage, Inc., 2003, page 26

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Living, Loving and Learning, Ballantine Books, October 12, 1985, page 78

By believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Report to Greco, B. Cassirer, 1965, page 434
• The entire passage is:

For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence.

When it is time to learn patience, God has an amazing ability to lengthen bank lines.
James Keeley
• Confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

A mature sense of wonder does not need the constant titillation of the sensational to keep it alive. It is most often called forth by a confrontation with the mysterious depth of meaning at the heart of the familiar and quotidian.
Sam Keen
The Quiet Life by Ray Ashford, Wood Lake Publishing Inc., March 15, 1996, page 173
• Ashford attributes this quote to Keen’s book, Apology for Wonder, but I have not yet been able to locate it there

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen
Solipsum by Daniel Couto, Strategic Book Publishing, September 20, 2011, page 252

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self- centered;
. . . Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
. . . Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
. . . Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
. . . Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
. . . Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
. . . Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
. . . Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
. . . Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
Kent M. Keith
The above piece is actually a version of Keith’s “Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership” that was found on the wall of Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, Mother Teresa’s children’s home in Calcutta.
Here is Keith’s original version:

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. . . . Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure
. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
Let Us Have Faith, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1944, pages 50-51
• This Amazon link may not be the same edition of the book that I personally read to find this quote

Faith alone defends. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
Let Us Have Faith, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1944, pages 50-51
• This Amazon link may not be the same edition of the book that I personally read to find this quote

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Optimism: An Essay, T.Y. Crowell and Company, 1903, Google eBook, page 17

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller
Optimism: An Essay, T.Y. Crowell and Company, 1903, Google eBook, page 56

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
Essay: “The Simplest Way to Be Happy”
The Book of Not Knowing: Exploring the True Nature of Self, Mind, and Consciousness by Peter Ralston, North Atlantic Books, January 26, 2010, page 570
• According to Helen Keller, Public Speaker: Sightless But Seen, Deaf But Heard by Lois J. Einhorn, Greenwood Publishing Group, December 30, 1998, page 136, this essay was first published in Home magazine in 1933

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
Helen Keller’s Journal, 1936-1937, Doubleday, Doran & Company, inc., 1938, page 60

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
Henry More: The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Plattonist by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, Harvard University Press, 1962, page 100

Relationships are like Rome—difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the “golden age,” and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt . . . that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.
Helen Keller
Let Love In: Open Your Heart and Mind to Attract Your Ideal Partner by Debra A. Berndt, John Wiley and Sons, March 1, 2010, Google eBook, Part One

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.
Emma Dunham Kelley
Megda, Oxford University Press, April 9, 1992, page 60

Blessed are the ears that catch the accents of divine whispering, and pay no heed to the murmurings of this world.
Thomas à Kempis
The Imitation of Christ, translated by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton, Courier Dover Publications, September 18, 2003, page 44

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.
Thomas à Kempis
The Imitation of Christ, based on the translation by Richard Whitford, Random House Digital, Inc., 1955, Google eBook, page 113

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
Thomas à Kempis
My Search for Meaning: A True Story of an Orphan’s Journey by Viola M Jaynes, FriesenPress, 2011, page 215

If there’s nobody in your way, it’s because you’re not going anywhere.
Robert F. Kennedy
Brand Rewired: Connecting Branding, Creativity, and Intellectual Property by Anne H. Chasser, Jennifer C. Wolfe, John Wiley & Sons, June 10, 2010, page 418

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Corita Kent
Fail Your Way to the Top by Tierre Berger, Xlibris Corporation, 2010, page 99

At every step, the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
The Education of the Child, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 28

The world thus tends to be your mirror. A peaceful person lives in a peaceful world. An angry person creates an angry world.
Ken Keyes, Jr.
Handbook to Higher Consciousness, The Living Love Center, fifth edition, 1975, page 29

To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
Ken Keyes, Jr.
Handbook to Higher Consciousness, The Living Love Center, fifth edition, 1975, page 45

To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes, Jr.
Know Your Limits-Then Ignore Them by John Mason, Insight International, Inc., 2000, page 59
• Numerous sources attribute this quote to Handbook to Higher Consciousness. I have not yet been able to locate it there.

The deep thinkers of all ages have therefore held one principle of awakening to life, and that principle is: emptying the self. In other words, making oneself a clearer and fuller accommodation in order to accommodate all experiences more clearly and more fully. All the tragedy of life, all its sorrows and pains belong mostly to the surface of the life in the world. If one were fully awake to life, if one could respond to life, if one could perceive life, one would not need to look for wonders, one would not need to communicate with spirits; for every atom in this world is a wonder for the one who sees with open eyes.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Shambhala, revised edition, September 3, 1996, page 20

Every thing and being on the surface of existence seem separate from one another, but in every plane beneath the surface they approach nearer to each other, and in the innermost plane they all become one. Every disturbance, therefore, caused to the peace of the smallest part of existence on the surface, inwardly affects the whole.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Mysticism of Sound, Ekstasis Editions, September 1, 2002, page 26

Everyone shows harmony or disharmony according to how open he is to the music of the universe. The more one is open to all that is beautiful and harmonious, the more one’s life is tuned to that universal harmony and the more one will show a friendly attitude towards everyone one meets. One’s very atmosphere will create music around one.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Music of Life, Omega Press, 1983, pages 74-75

The further we advance, the more difficult and the more important becomes our part in the symphony of life; and the more conscious we are of this responsibility, the more efficient we become in accomplishing our task.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Shambhala, March 2, 1999, page 274

Nobody appears inferior to us when our heart is kindled with kindness.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Treasury of Spiritual Wisdom: A Collection of 10,000 Inspirational Quotations by Andy Zubko, Motilal Banarsidass Publications, January 1, 2000, page 283

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
Toward the One, Harper & Row, 1974, page 118

Why aren’t you dancing with joy at this very moment? is the only relevant spiritual question.
Vilayat Inayat Khan
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, compiled and arranged by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, September 30, 2006, Gnosophia Publishers, September 30, 2006, page 189

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Søren Kierkegaard
The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, edited and translated by Alexander Dru, Oxford University Press, 1959, page 24

God’s providence is great precisely in small things; whereas for men there is something lacking here—just as lace seen through a microscope is irregular and unlovely, but the texture of nature under the same scrutiny proves to be more and more ingenious.
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard’s Journal and Papers, Volume 2, F-K, edited by Gregor Malantschuk, Indiana University Press, 1978, page 87

So impossible is it for the world to continue without God that if God were able to forget the world it would instantly disappear.
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard—Journal and Papers, Volume 2, F-K, edited by Gregor Malantschuk, Indiana University Press, 1978, page 87

You felt that there is a love which transcends all sense and understanding, and that this love is not the love with which you love God but the love with which God loves you.
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard—Journal and Papers, Volume 2, F-K, edited by Gregor Malantschuk, Indiana University Press, 1978, page 89

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds . . . then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.
Søren Kierkegaard
Gospel of Sufferings, J. Clarke, 1955, page 56

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Søren Kierkegaard
Works of Love: Some Christian Reflections in the Form of Discourses, HarperCollins, November 7, 1964, pages 23-24

Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
Søren Kierkegaard
A Kierkegaard Anthology, edited by Robert Bretall, Modern Library, 1959, page 155

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one’s self.
Søren Kierkegaard
Fighter’s Fact Book: Over 400 Concepts, Principles, and Drills to Make You a Better Fighter by Loren W. Christensen, Turtle Press Corporation, September 1, 2000, Google eBook, page 281

The time is always right to do what’s right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech at Oberlin College, October 22, 1964, King’s second public appearance after winning the Nobel Peace Prize

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech: “The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life”
Delivered April 9, 1967, New Covenant Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois
• Click on the audio player below to listen to a clip from this speech
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Everybody can be great. Because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. . . . You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968
A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson and Peter Holloran, Hachette Digital, Inc., April 1, 1998, Google eBook

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speech: “A Proper Sense of Priorities”
Delivered February 6, 1968, Washington, D.C.

An overflowing love which seeks nothing in return, agape is the love of God operating in the human heart. At this level, we love men not because we like them, nor because their ways appeal to us, nor even because they possess some type of divine spark; we love every man because God loves him. At this level, we love the person who does an evil deed, although we hate the deed that he does.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Strength to Love, Fortress Press, 1977, page 52

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Strength to Love, Fortress Press, 1977, page 53

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr., selected by Coretta Scott King, Newmarket Press, November 1, 2008, page 23

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Balance with Grace: Celebrate the Kaleidoscope of Life by Grace Durfee, AuthorHouse, January 31, 2008, page 34

If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams, HarperCollins, June 21, 1991, Google eBook, page 136

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Grenville Kleiser
The Book of Positive Quotations, compiled and arranged by John Cook, Fairview Press, October 25, 2007, page 677

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end from the beginning.
E. J. Klemme
Essay: “Going to College”
The American Schoolmaster, Volume 8, The Michigan State Normal College., 1915, Google eBook, page 79

If you forget your feelings about things of the world, they become enlightening teachings. If you get emotional about enlightening teaching, it becomes a worldly thing.
Muso Kokushi
Dream Conversations on Buddhism and Zen, Shambhala, June 28, 1994, page 5

My narrative:
In any context, Eva Kor’s act of forgiveness is stunning. On January 27, 1995, in a public ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops, Kor declared her forgiveness toward the Nazis who murdered her parents and two older sisters.
and
Standing by the ruins of a gas chamber at the infamous death camp, Kor also forgave Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who used her and her twin sister Miriam as guinea pigs for genetic experiments.
and
Kor’s forgiveness allowed her to release the heartache and hatred she had carried for five decades. She said, “I read my document of forgiveness and signed it. I immediately felt the pain lift from my shoulders. Finally, I was no longer a prisoner of Auschwitz. I was finally free. So I say to everybody, ‘Forgive your worst enemy. It will heal your soul and set you free.’”
and
Later that year, Kor opened the CANDLES Holocaust Museum in Terra Haute, Indiana. (CANDLES is an acronym for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors.) In 2003, the museum was burned to the ground by a fire that was deliberately set. Kor forgave the arsonist and rebuilt the museum. She said, “For most people there is a big obstacle to forgiveness because society expects revenge. Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing, an act of self-empowerment. I call it a miracle medicine. It’s free, it works, and it has no side effects.”
and
Eva Kor captured the true meaning of forgiveness when she said, “Forgiveness means to me that whatever was done to me is no longer causing me such pain that I cannot be the person I want to be.”
• Adapted from Eva Kor’s talks and writings; confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Meditative Mind, Krishnamurti Foundation of America, February 1, 1994, page 47

There is fear as long as you want to be secure— secure in your marriage, secure in your job, in your position, in your responsibility, secure in your ideas, in your beliefs, secure in your relationship to the world or in your relationship to God. The moment the mind seeks security or gratification in any form, at any level, there is bound to be fear.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Think on These Things, HarperCollins, October 11, 1989, page 245

It is the mind, it is thought that creates time. Thought is time, and whatever thought projects must be of time; therefore, thought cannot possibly go beyond itself. To discover what is beyond time, thought must come to an end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
On God, HarperCollins, November 6, 1992, page 9

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The Book of Positive Quotations, compiled and arranged by John Cook, Fairview Press, October 25, 2007, Fairview Press, October 25, 2007, page 508

How do these geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? How do we know when to go? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying, Simon and Schuster, June 19, 1998, page 106

You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden and somebody brings you gorgeous food on a silver platter. But you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses and still don’t put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or a punishment, but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Tunnel and the Light: Essential Insights on Living and Dying, Da Capo Press, February 26, 1999, page 35

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The Leader’s Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success by Jim Clemmer, TCG Press, January 1, 2003, page 84

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Overcoming Life’s Disappointments, Random House Digital, Inc., August 21, 2007, page 48

Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.
The Kybalion
The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece by Three Initiates, The Yogi Publication Society, 1908, page 171
• The Kybalion is a book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, the purported author of the Hermetic Corpus, a series of sacred texts that are the basis of Hermeticism.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.
Jean de La Bruyère
The “Characters” of Jean de La Bruyère, translated by Henri Van Laun, Scribner & Welford, 1885, Google eBook, page 363

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine
The Original Fables of La Fontaine, Book VIII, Fable 16: “The Horoscope,” Echo Library, November 1, 2006, page 30

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine
Wisdom from World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven on Earth by John Templeton, Templeton Foundation Press, March 1, 2002, page 308
• According to Wikiquote, this quote is from La Fontaine’s Fables, Book VIII, Fable 25

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.
Jean de La Fontaine
The Book of Positive Quotations, compiled and arranged by John Cook, Fairview Press, October 25, 2007, page 344

Intuition isn’t the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
John Kord Lagemann
Daily Aromatherapy: Transforming the Seasons of Your Life with Essential Oils by Joni Keim and Ruah Bull, North Atlantic Books, January 15, 2008, page 22

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.
John G. Lake
Prayer: The Right Way, the Right Word for the Right Result by O. E. Awowole, Xulon Press, 2010, page 151

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
Louis L’Amour
Lonely on the Mountain, Random House Digital, Inc., September 1, 1984, Google eBook, chapter one

Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, compiled and arranged by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, September 30, 2006, page 550
• Change attributes this quote to Langbridge’s book, A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts. I have not yet been able to locate it there.

Just think of the trees: they let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when they fly away. If people’s hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way.
Langya
The Circle of Fire: The Metaphysics of Yoga by Palash Mazumdar, North Atlantic Books, December 15, 2009, page 191

What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job? If you don’t understand this, you will get lost, however intelligent you are.
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, NuVision Publications, LLC, January 30, 2007, page 27

The Master sees things as they are, without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way, and resides in the center of the circle.
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, NuVision Publications, LLC, January 30, 2007, page 29

The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings.
Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell, Frances Lincoln Ltd., April 1, 1999, verse 50

He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tzu
The Tao Te Ching, interpreted by Gordon J. Van De Water, Xlibris Corporation, 2010, page 86

There is no need to run outside for better seeing, nor to peer from a window. Rather abide at the center of your being; for the more you leave it, the less you learn. Search your heart and see if he is wise who takes each turn: the way to do is to be.
Lao Tzu
The Way of Life, According to Lau Tzu, translated by Witter Bynner, Penguin, November 1, 1986, page 75

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao Tzu
The Universal God: The Search for God in the Twenty-First Century by R. William Davies, Xlibris Corporation, August 12, 2011, page 95

Those who say, do not know; those who know, do not say.
Lao Tzu
The Transcendent Unity of Religions by Frithjof Schuon, Quest Books, 1984, page xv

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu
Transform Your World Through the Powers of Your Mind: A Guide to Planetary Transformation and Spiritual Enlightenment by Jawara D. King, AuthorHouse, June 10, 2009, page 465

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu
Healing with Source: A Spiritual Guide to Mind-Body Medicine by Dave Markowitz, Findhorn Press, July 21, 2010, page 50

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
Coaching Ccross Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate, and Professinoal Differences by Philippe Rosinski, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2003, page 77

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
Lao Tzu
Pathways to Peace by Christine Spencer, Balboa Press, 2011, page 300

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
Lao Tzu
Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease by Dean Ornish, Random House Digital, Inc., December 30, 1995, page 108

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu
Supreme Secrets of Success by Lami Abayilo, Xulon Press, 2010, page 194

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
Lao Tzu
The Trance of Scarcity: Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life by Victoria Castle, ReadHowYouWant.com, August 7, 2010, page 202

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Lao Tzu
The Spiritual Philosophy of the Tao Te Ching by Joseph A. Magno, Pendragon Publishing, Inc., June 15, 2005, page 115

Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
Lao Tzu
Men Who Have Walked with God by Sheldon Cheney, Kessinger Publishing, 1945, page 19

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, edited by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, 1993, page 543
• This is a modern paraphrasing of La Rochefoucauld’s Maxim no. 76. The literal translation is:

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

Reflections, or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1871, page 11

We pardon to the extent that we love.
François de La Rochefoucauld
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, edited by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, 1993, page 344
• This is a modern paraphrasing of La Rochefoucauld’s Maxim no. 330. The literal translation is:

We pardon in the degree that we love.

Reflections, or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1871, page 40

When we do not find peace of mind in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Reflections, or, Sentences and Moral Maxims, S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1871, The First Supplement, no. VIII, page 63

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily. . . . Obstacles which I once would have regarded as insurmountable are melting away like a mirage. People are becoming friendly who suspected or neglected me. I feel, I feel like one who has had his violin out of tune with the orchestra and at last is in harmony with the music of the universe.
Frank Laubauch
Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from Letters Written at Dansalan, Lake Lanao, Philippine Islands, Purposeful Design Publications, third edition, December 31, 2007
• These excerpts from Laubach’s March 1, 1930 letter to his father can be read here.

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
Sister Mary Lauretta
Spirituality 101: The Indispensable Guide to Keeping or Finding Your Spiritual Life on Campus by Harriet L. Schwartz, page 230

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Treasury of Thought, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1894, Google eBook, page 270

Let none turn over books or roam the stars in quest of God who sees him not in man.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Aphorisms on Man, Printed by T. Bensley for J. Johnson, 1789, no. 398, page 138

Sometimes the greatest destiny takes the longest to unfold.
Danielle Lee
• Confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.
William Law
The Works of the Reverend William Law, M.A., printed for J. Richardson, 1762; privately reprinted for G. Moreton, 1893, page 180

We must alter our lives, in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way, and pray another.
William Law
The Works of the Reverend William Law, M.A., printed for J. Richardson, 1762; privately reprinted for G. Moreton, 1893, page 202

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much, as praying for him.
William Law
The Works of the Reverend William Law, M.A., printed for J. Richardson, 1762; privately reprinted for G. Moreton, 1893, page 228

The mind can assert anything,
and pretend it has proved it.
My beliefs I test on my body,
on my intuitional consciousness,
and when I get a response
there, then I accept.
D. H. Lawrence
Late Essays and Articles, Volume 2, edited by James T. Boulton, Cambridge University Press, April 1, 2004, page 208

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
D. H. Lawrence
Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, edited by Edward D. McDonald, Viking Press, 1972, page 714

Those who go searching for love only find their own lovelessness. But the loveless never find love; only the loving find love, and they never have to search for it.
D. H. Lawrence
Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It by Alan Cohen, Random House Digital, Inc., November 29, 2005, Google eBook, page 128

It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
C. W. Leadbeater
The Chakras, Quest Books, 1972, back cover

When everything has to be right, something isn’t.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Unkempt Thoughts, St. Martin’s Press, 1962, page 157

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Unkempt Thoughts, St. Martin’s Press, 1962, page 159

When you mix free will you get certain deviants. . . . You may believe that just because there is an absence of good, for example, that evil exists. This is not so. In fact, things are far more intricate.
Lena Lees
Oracle of Compassion: The Living World of Kuan Yin by Hope Bradford, BookSurge Publishing, July 8, 2010, page 120

He knew that insofar as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven, HarperCollins, September 1, 2003, page 146

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven, Simon and Schuster, April 15, 2008, page 159

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ace Trade, July 1, 2000, page 220

The soul is the mirror of an indestructible universe.
Gottfried Leibniz
The Monadology, page 18
• This quote is a pithier paraphrasing of the following passage:
“Thus it may be said that not only the soul (mirror of an indestructible universe) is indestructible, but also the animal itself . . .”

The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.
Robert Leighton
Less Is More: Meditations on Simplicity, Balance, and Real Abundanceby Mina Parker, Conari Press, October 1, 2009, page 89

It’s a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
Madeleine L’Engle
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, Seabury Press, October 1, 1980, pages 17-18

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.
John Lennon
• Although this quote is listed on many websites, I have not been able to source it directly to Lennon’s own writings

I’d rather be a man who has nothing but has it all, than a man who has it all but has nothing.
Cicero Leonard (father of boxer Sugar Ray Leonard)
ESPN The Magazine, 8/09/10 issue, page 79

He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Leonardo da Vinci
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Volume 1, translated by Jean Paul Richter, Plain Label Books, 1938, page 490
• This quote is a popular paraphrasing of Richter’s literal 1888 translation:

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly. See it in its “isness.”
Lester Levenson
The Ultimate Truth About Love and Happiness:: A Handbook to Life, Lawrence Crane Enterprises, January 2003, page 57

All those former things that I used to see as me, like my body and mind, were the least of me rather than the all of me.
Lester Levenson
The Lester Levenson Story

If you had an hour to live and could make just one phone call, who would it be to, what would you say . . . and why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine
An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given by Richard Carlson, HarperCollins, December 18, 2007, Google eBook

Forgiveness finishes unfinished business.
Stephen Levine
A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as if It Were Your Last, Random House Digital, Inc., April 14, 1998, Google eBook

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
George Levinger
• From an April 16, 1985 column by Daniel Goleman in the New York Times in which Levinger was interviewed; confirmed and approved by the author via e-mail

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C. S. Lewis
The Problem of Pain, HarperOne, February 6, 2001, page 91

Prosperity knits a man to the world.
C. S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters, HarperCollins, March 6, 2001, page 155

Aim at Heaven and you will get earth “thrown in”: aim at earth and you will get neither.
C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity, HarperCollins, 1952, Google eBook, page 134

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries, avoid all entanglements, lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket —safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.
C. S. Lewis
Readings for Meditation and Reflection, HarperCollins, January 5, 1996, page 130

Miracles in fact are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis
God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1970, page 29

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself—to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
C.S. Lewis
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis: Family Letters 1905-1931, edited by Walter Hooper, HarperCollins, June 29, 2004, letter dated June 15, 1930, to Arthur Greeves, page 906

It is quite useless knocking at the door of Heaven for earthly comfort: it’s not the sort of comfort they supply there.
C. S. Lewis
The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950-1963, edited by Walter Hooper, HarperCollins, January 9, 2007, letter dated December 3, 1959, to Sir Henry Willink, page 1102

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.”
C. S. Lewis
• According to Wikiquote, this quote is a variation on the following passage from page 72 of The Great Divorce, a passage that was repurposed in The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C.S. Lewis, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 5, 1984, Google eBook, page 142:

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.”

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis: The Man Who Created Narnia by Michael Coren, Ignatius Press, April 1, 2006, Google eBook, page 57

Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It is thinking of yourself less.
C. S. Lewis
Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Nick J. Watson and Andrew Parker, Routledge, 2013, page 271
• The closest I’ve come to sourcing this quote directly from the writings of C. S. Lewis is this: “He will not be thinking about humility; he will not be thinking about himself at all.” in The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics, HarperCollins; roughcut edition, February 6, 2007, page 108

One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything—and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe: The Key to a World of Enlightenment and Enrichment by Matthew M. Radmanesh, AuthorHouse, May 30, 2006, page 99

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel his pleasure.
Eric Liddell
The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer that Changed My Life and Might Just Change the World by Richard Stearns, Thomas Nelson Inc., March 10, 2009, page 92
• The actor playing Liddell said this in the movie Chariots of Fire. Whether Liddell actually said this or whether it was a product of a screenwriter’s imagination, I have yet to determine.

Slowly, painfully, I have learned that peace of mind may transform a cottage into a spacious manner hall; the want of it can make a regal park an imprisoning nutshell.
Joshua Loth Liebman
Peace of Mind, Simon and Schuster, 1946, page 14

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society for the Year . . ., Volume 13, Google eBook, page 111

I have a brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!
Jenny Lind
Jenny Lind: The Swedish Nightingale by Gladys Denny Shultz, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962, page 146

A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart’s. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gift from the Sea, Random House Digital, Inc., August 10, 2011, Google eBook, page 104

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Wave of the Future: A Confession of Faith, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973, page 214

Him that I love, I wish to be
Free—
Even from me.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Poem: “Even”
The Unicorn and Other Poems 1935-1955, Vintage Books, October 12, 1972
• According to the Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations, the poem “Even” is in this book

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter
The Healer Inside You: Using PNI, a Mind-Body Science, to Help Heal Your Body by Neil Orr and David Patient, Juta and Company Ltd,, April 30, 2004, page 82

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
The Wisdom of China and India, Random House, 1942, page 1087

“Come to the edge.”
“We can’t. We are afraid.”
“Come to the edge.”
“We can’t. We will fall.”
“Come to the edge.”
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
Christopher Logue 
This is a more poetic, visually appealing version of what Logue wrote in the poem, “Come to the Edge,” in New Numbers, Knopf, 1970, page 81:

Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It’s too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came
and he pushed
and they flew . . .

I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of
millenniums. . . . All my previous selves have their voices, echoes,
promptings in me. . . . Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.
Jack London
The Star Rover, Grosset & Dunlap, 1915, Google eBook, pages 252-253

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kavanagh: A Tale, Ticknor and Fields, 1859, Google eBook, page 3

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Table Talk,” 1874, Google eBook, page 776

For after all, the best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Meditations for Pain Recovery by Tony Greco, Central Recovery Press, December 20, 2010, page 245

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
The Cancer Journals, Aunt Lute Books, September 1, 2006, page 13

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell
The Writings of James Russell Lowell . . . Literary Essays, printed at the Riverside Press, 1890, page 43

If you can take care of the internal, you can easily take care of the external. Then you can avoid the infernal and latch on to the eternal.
Joseph Lowery
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing, compiled and arranged by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, September 30, 2006, page 34

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece—by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
John Luther
Acts: Life Application Bible Commentary by Bruce Barton, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., October 11, 1999, page 96