The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen, just listen..........

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention....

A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words..........

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.......

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.............

You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself...........

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never, and what wine is so foaming, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.............

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility............

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented........

Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own..........

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it. That's what makes life feel good: when it has direction, when you are heading straight for what you love.............

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible............

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there............

He who allows oppression shares the crime............

The thing we women have yet to learn is that nobody gives us power. We just take it......

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away..............

When we find ourselves devoid of passion and purpose, the first thing we need to do is stop. But that's not easy. The rest of the world is zooming by at full speed. Left alone with ourselves, without a project to occupy us, we can become nervous and self-critical about what we should be doing and feeling. This can be so uncomfortable that we look for any distraction rather than allowing ourselves the space to be as we are..........

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire................

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish..............

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about.......?

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you...............

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning..............

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace............

Where am I? Who am I?
How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director?
I want to see him...........

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed..............

A useless life is an early death..........

The great end of life is not knowledge but action..........

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out..........

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems......

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.......

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant............

All glory comes from daring to begin..........

Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower...........

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections........

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.............

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.............

Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state..........

Life on the planet is born of woman.................

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning................

In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts. Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be. What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts. It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being. It is, after all, one heart touching another heart.......

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.............

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.......

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge..............

One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever..........

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand............

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine............

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you...........

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination................

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time..............

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.....................