Below are some inspiring quotes which can help our thoughts to create wonderful feelings of lightness and empowerment. Sometimes a change is just a thought away.  Enjoy.

At the center of the universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.
-Fred Rogers (of “Mister Rogers” TV fame)

We all have a spiritual purpose, a mission, that we have been pursuing without being fully aware of it, and once we bring it completely into consciousness, our lives can take off.
–James Redfield , Canadian Author,
”The Celestine Prophesy”

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
-Plutarch, 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.
-Dale Carnegie {1888-1955 American Author & Achievement Expert}

Our deepest fear is NOT that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that
most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child
of God; your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing
enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure
around you.
-Marianne Williamson 1952-, American Author, Lecturer on Spirituality

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem,
the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and
generosity.
-Nathaniel Branden, American Expert on Self-esteem, Author, Psychologist

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but
you will never imprison my mind.
-Mahatma Gandhi ,1869-1948, Indian
Political and Spiritual Leader

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant
us to stick it out.
-Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian Born British
Writer

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968, Civil Rights Leader

I do not know what path in life you will take, but I do know this: If, on
that path, you do not find a way to serve, you will never be happy.
–Albert Schweitzer. 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian,
Musician, and Philosopher

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-Dr. Karl Menninger

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence. Ongoing,
continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you that there
is no limit to what you can accomplish.
–Brian Tracy, American Trainer,
Speaker, Author, Businessman

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people
visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.
And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.
-Cherie Carter-Scott, Author, If Life is A Game, These are the Rules

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as
difficult as that.
-Michael Leunig

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and
so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which
open for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, British-born American
Inventor of Telephone