9 Quotes by Diane Dreher

Remember the importance of small actions. They’re the building blocks in the architecture of your life, the quiet victories you win for yourself each day.

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

A judgmental attitude helps neither ourselves nor others. Arguing or preaching rarely changes other people. Even if our opinions are justified, criticizing others usually makes them wary and defensive. And it takes our attention away from our own lives, which we can change.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

Our greatest natural resources are our hearts and minds, together with those of the people around us.

Regular meditation not only restores our inner harmony and vital energy, but provides us with an actual experience of the peace we seek.

Wise leaders know that if an individual doesn’t count, the institution doesn’t count for much either. Put mathematically, if the individual is a zero, together a lot of zeros add up to a whole lot of nothing.

Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.

Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them.