"The soul...manifests amazing capacities for recovery when it finds its home in God and receives his grace."

Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Oscar Wilde

"Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever to have truly lived."

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When we speak of the human soul, then, we are speaking of the deepest level of life and power in the human being."

Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart

"We are apt to think our great problems are external, environmental. We are not skilled in the inner life, where the real roots of our problem lie."

Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion

"In my travels, I find that most people today are restless and hungry to get "into the game" and experience the deeper meaning of their lives. They just don't know where to start."

Ken Blanchard, Co-Author, the One Minute Manager

"And the very first thing that we must do is to be mindful of our soul, to acknowledge it. .It is necessary to take the soul seriously and deal with it regularly and intelligently."

Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart

"I want to live my life, not have life live me!"

Lori Peterson, friend

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, The Life of Reason

"The soul, though at all times hidden, is at all times revealed, expressing itself through everything we say and do. Through the ordinary brushstrokes of everyday life, a portrait of our soul is being painted."

Ken Gire, Windows of the Soul

"How better to keep in touch with God's work in me than to record what is happening to me day after day?"

Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak

"The emotional depletion that results from living in crisis mode eventually produces a shrinking heart."

Bill and Lynne Hybels, Fit to be Tied

"Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart."

John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted

"Journaling allows me an objective audience for pouring out my heart. An inviting blank page doesn't judge my ideas, fears, or questions."

Julie Staub, friend

"And this simple concept, of making sure that our daily activities reflect our deepest core values is the concept that has made all the difference in my own life."

Hyrum Smith, Ten Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management

"Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention."

Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark

"The problem is not entirely in finding the room of one's own, the time alone, difficult as that is. The problem is more how to still the soul in the midst of its activities."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea.

"Do not try to be someone you are not. It will cause you great stress and deep frustration."

Bobb Biehl, Stop Setting Goals (If You Would Rather Solve Problems)

"A diary helps build up the muscles of your personality. In truth, those of us who keep diaries cannot stop."

Alexandra Stoddard, Living a Beautiful Life

"Suffering always changes us, but it does not necessarily change us for the better."

John Ortberg, The Life You've Always Wanted

"All great happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks, the art of life is to get the message."

Malcolm Muggeridge, British journalist