"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, talented, gorgeous, 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. We were born to manifest the glory of GOD that is within us.

It's not just in some of us, it's in EVERYONE. And as we let our 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."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in bud
became more painful than the risk to bloom."
Anias Nin

Those who dance are thought to be quite insane
by those who cannot hear music.
Maggie Erotokritou

Re-examine all you have been told...
Dismiss what insults your Soul.
Walt Whitman

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Often our true path is not the apparently safe one - but if we examine the "safe" path, it leads only to deadness and limitation. The only real safety lies in being true to our own self. What does your heart tell you is real for you? If you were to allow your authentic self to come forth, what would you be doing differently? The only quality of character that will guide you reliably through the many changes happening in and around you, is realness. Trust who and what you are, and the universe will support you in miraculous ways.
Alan Cohen

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
Margery Williams, "The Velveteen Rabbit"

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.
Les Brown

To dare is to lose one's footing temporarily.
To not dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
Erica Jong

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Rumi