QUOTATIONS

from famous American Authors:

GARY ZUKAV :Zukav was born in Port Arthur, Texas, and spent his early childhood in San
Antonio and Houston. His family moved to Pittsburg, Kansas, while he was in fourth grade and
he graduated from Pittsburg Senior High School as valedictorian in 1960. During that time he
became an Eagle Scout, Governor of Kansas Boy's State, President of the Student Council, and
Kansas State Debate championship team member twice. His father, Morris Louis Zukav, owned
a jewelry store and his mother, Lorene Zukav, was a housewife who raised him and his younger
sister.

In 1959, he received a scholarship to Harvard and matriculated in 1960. In his junior year he left
Harvard to motorcycle in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East before returning the
following year. In 1964, he was deeply moved by the murders of James Chaney, Andrew
Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and worked as a summer
volunteer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in
Jackson, Mississippi, under the direction of Charles Evers, brother of the slain Medgar Evers. In
1965 he graduated from Harvard and enlisted in the U.S. Army. That same year he entered U.S.
Army Infantry Officer Candidate School and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in 1966. He
volunteered for the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets), completed Parachute Training
(Fort Benning, Georgia); U.S. Army Special Warfare School (Fort Bragg, North Carolina), and
served as an A Detachment Executive Officer in Okinawa and Vietnam, participating in Top
Secret operations in Vietnam and Laos. He left Vietnam after the Tet Offensive of January 1968
and was discharged from the U.S. Army in 1968 as 1st Lieutenant.

Zukav returned to the U.S. in 1970 and moved to San Francisco, California, that same year. He
recounts this period as an emotionally volatile time of sexual addiction, motorcycles, anger and
drug-abuse[2] until 1975 when an unexpected introduction to quantum physics by his room
mate, Jack Sarfatti, who took him to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory initiated changes in his
experience that led to his first book, Dancing Wu Li Masters, written with extensive help from
Jack Sarfatti and other physicists he met through Sarfatti as described in David Kaiser's book
How the Hippies Saved Physics. He later described this book as his "first gift to Life".[3] In 1987
he moved to Mount Shasta, California, where he lived in a cabin as a self-described "secular
monk" and spent extensive time in the surrounding wilderness. In 1993 he met Linda Francis.
They co-founded the Seat of the Soul Institute in 1998 and moved to Ashland, Oregon, in 2000.
CRITICISM : According to Zukav, the love between all parents and children "cannot be
overestimated".[10] He states that "even in families where a parent is (..) brutal and
disconnected (..), there remains a longing to continue the relationship", which is "an experience

of [that] love".[11] Indian spiritual teacher Krishnamurti challenges the view that all parents
love their children. He asks the questions: "Every parent throughout the world says he loves his
children, but does he?" and: "Do you think if parents really loved, that there would be war?"[12]
In Zukav's view parents who abuse their children may, from the perspective of the soul, enable
their children to settle a karmic debt that their souls have acquired during another lifetime.[13]

The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have
nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to connect with another individual
has to do with humbleness. There are no lower or higher individuals in the perception of a humble
person. There are only souls. There is only love.
Gary Zukav
No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience
roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts
are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not
think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
Gary Zukav
The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution
now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices.
It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and
reverence for life.
Gary Zukav
When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will
create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are
willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
Gary Zukav
Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their
good deeds have a second agenda. They want to be appreciated.
Gary Zukav
Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you
want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are
flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and
feeling that you are not capable of loving.
Gary Zukav
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how
we will respond to them.

Gary Zukav
The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness
and love.
Gary Zukav
A responsible choice is a choice that creates consequences that you are willing to assume
responsibility for.
Gary Zukav
The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
Gary Zukav
Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you
intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.
Gary Zukav
Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of
giving without expectation, no strings attached.
Gary Zukav
The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to
connect the two, and the more you will be able to create the experiences of your life consciously.
This is the development of mastery. It is the creation of authentic power.
Gary Zukav
The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do
not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your
history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
Gary Zukav
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you
are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
Gary Zukav
Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and
reverence for life.
Gary Zukav
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart
without attachment to the outcome.

Gary Zukav
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
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of
powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in
order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
Gary Zukav
We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists.
We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is
our new reality.
Gary Zukav
Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of
effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important
things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.
Gary Zukav
A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to
manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our
evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to
manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.
Gary Zukav
Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic
power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and
with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.
Gary Zukav
The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the
frightened parts of your personality that are active - in other words, to learn to distinguish love
from fear in you. The second step is to choose love, no matter what.
Gary Zukav
This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention
before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about
yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
Gary Zukav

Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
Gary Zukav

ZIG ZIGLAR : Zig Ziglar was born in Coffee County in southeastern Alabama to John Silas
Ziglar and Lila Wescott Ziglar. He was the tenth of twelve children.[1]In 1931, when Ziglar was
five years old, his father took a management position at a Mississippi farm, and his family
moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he spent most of his early childhood. The next year, his
father died of a stroke, and his younger sister died two days later.
Ziglar served in the United States Navy during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. He was in the
Navy V-12 Navy College Training Program and attended the University of South Carolina in
Columbia, South Carolina.
Ziglar later worked as a salesman in a succession of companies. In 1968, he became a vice
president and training director for the Automotive Performance company, moving to Dallas,
Texas.
By 2010, Ziglar still traveled around taking part in motivational seminars, despite a fall down a
flight of stairs in 2007 that left him with short-term memory problem

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your
goals.
Zig Ziglar
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend
it daily.
Zig Ziglar
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and
loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and
doesn't solve any problems.
Zig Ziglar

Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
Zig Ziglar
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do
the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
Zig Ziglar
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a
commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you
have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is
important.
Zig Ziglar
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those
situations.
Zig Ziglar
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that
enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that
enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.
Zig Ziglar

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

Zig Ziglar
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good
news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
Zig Ziglar
If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
Zig Ziglar
Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
Zig Ziglar
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of
your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in
shambles.
Zig Ziglar
The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
Zig Ziglar
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar