‘If not you, then who? If not now, then when?’

‘Quitting feels good for about 30 seconds, then it sucks forever.’

‘You can’t influence someone while you’re judging them.’

‘Move through a crowd and fill the empty spaces.’

‘Don’t do things to be loved; you do things because they’re right.’

‘Each one teach one; each one reach one.’

‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field; I’ll meet you there’.

‘Sometimes there’s nothing else left to do, but the thing itself’.

‘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 this world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us;

It is not just in some of us - it's in everyone!

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others!’
   Nelson Mandela - Inaugural Speech 1994