Quo Vadis

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." - Robert H. Schuller

"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action." - Michael Hanson

"I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us." - Pearl S. Buck

"A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."" - Victor Frankl

"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill

"Through pride we are ever 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

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." - Buddha

"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him." - Goethe

"Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity." - Henri Nouwen

"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely." - Lorraine Hansberry

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again." - Joseph Campbell

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Gandhi

"If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life." - Victor Frankl