Quotations

"Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts. You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see."

— James Van Der Zee, American photographer, born 1886

"I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows."

— Roger Zelazny, American poet, born 1937

"I've learned that you don't have to win first place to win."

— Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast, born 1976

"The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory."

— Gary Zukav, American spiritual teacher, born 1942

"The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently."

— Gary Zukav, American spiritual teacher, born 1942

"The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons."

— Gary Zukav, American spiritual teacher, born 1942

"The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!"

— Gary Zukav, American spiritual teacher, born 1942

"Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power."

— Gary Zukav, American spiritual teacher, born 1942

"If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you."

— Gary Zukav, American spiritual teacher, born 1942

"Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess."

— Gary Zukav, American spiritual teacher, born 1942

"Truth is that which does not contaminate you, but empowers you. Therefore, there are degrees of truth, but, generically, truth is that which can do no harm. It cannot harm."

— Gary Zukav, American spiritual teacher, born 1942

"There is much Light, as we shall see, that is continually surrounding such a soul even though it may not be able to directly penetrate it, and there is much assistance for souls that insist upon living in darkness. The encouragement to take even one thought into Light is always available. Eventually, they always do."

— Gary Zukav, American spiritual teacher, born 1942