Catalyst Quotes

“Be Your Own Author”

“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life.  It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”         (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

‘The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom’

“1. Be Impeccable With Your Word

Speak with integrity.  Say only what you mean.  Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others.  Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don’t Take Anything Personally

Nothing others do is because of you.  What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.  When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don’t Make Assumptions

Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.  Under any circumstance, simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”      (Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom)

“To be authentic literally means to be your own author.”      (Dan Millman)

“Difference Between Try and Triumph”

“I Wish He’d Go Away; Only Love Can Drive Out Hate”

“As I was walking up the stair,

I met a man who wasn’t there.

He wasn’t there again today.

I wish, I wish he’d go away.”      (Hugh Mearns)

“In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude.  Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions…”         (Don Henley)

“Too much sanity may be madness.   And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”           (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, ‘Don Quixote’)

“Every positive change — every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness — involves a rite of passage.  Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation.  I have never found an exception.”       (Dan Millman)

“You never know when someone
May catch a dream from you.
You never know when a little word
Or something you may do
May open up the windows
Of a mind that seeks the light …
The way you live may not matter at all,
But you never know, it might.”       (Author Unknown)

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”       (George Bernard Shaw)

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”        (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

“Fear? Take Personal Responsibility”

“Only fear can defeat life… it goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease.  It begins in your mind, always… nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it… if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”       (Yann Martel, author, ‘Life of Pi’)

“The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.  Fear creates aggressiveness….fear grows in darkness; if you think there’s a bogeyman around, turn on the light….only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”           (Dorothy Thompson)

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light.”           (Plato)

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.  We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”      (Dale Carnegie)

“All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears – of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words, ‘Some Assembly Required’.”         (Dave Barry)

“You must take personal responsibility.  You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.”         (Jim Rohn)

“Dreaming and Doing”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.  Now put the foundations under them.”       (Henry David Thoreau)

 “If someone says ‘can’t, that shows you what to do.”       (John Cage)

 “You must take personal responsibility.  You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.”        (Jim Rohn)

 “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”       (George Bernard Shaw)

“Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, others stay awake and do them.”       (Unknown Source)