"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within, it is there all the time"
Anna Freud
"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge wave of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering"
St Augustine
"The secret of inner peace is self acceptance:not blinding yourself to your faults, nor hating yourself for them, but claiming your higher reality in infinite light"
Unknown
"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best"
Anon
"Castles in the air are always necessary before we can have castles on the ground, before we can have castles in which to live."
Ralph Waldo Trine
"It is often painful - sometimes down-right traumatic for people who have affected a change within themselves to re-enter a society where nothing has changed. "
M Scott-Peck