Inspirational quotes can have the power to change minds, alter moods and empower change.  Here are some of my favorites:

"God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them."  C.S. Lewis

"Transformation through immersion and consciousness depends on our capacity to be penetrated.  Our being, our substance, must be porous in order for the Mystery to enter, to penetrate.  This is the crux of the matter.  It is not enough simply to be immersed in life.  We must let ourselves be plowed so that the furrows of our person becomes deeper and deeper, so that our earth becomes softer and softer.  This is something our being craves, but his plowing is kenosis ( emptying, the death that must precede new life, rebirth) and kenosis is not easy.  In the measure that our being becomes porous, open, grace can penetrate us.  Depth is possible.  Transformation is possible."  Jean-Marie Howe

"Prayer is not one of the ten thousand things, it is that by which we see the ten thousand things." Richard Rohr

"You have to dig one deep well, not many shallow ones."  Ghandi

"The most radical thing we can do is to try to find the face of Christ in others, and not only those we find it easy to be with."  Dorothy Day

"Our only desire and our one choice should be this: I want and I choose what better leads to God's deepening his life in me." 

St. Ignatius

"Sooner or later a choice will have to be made:  to continue a willful path in which one tries to secure autonomy and self determination or to emback on a spiritual path in which one seeks ever greater willingness to become a part of the fundamental processes of life in self-surrender."  Gerald May

"Preach the gospel everday; if necessary, use words."  St. Francis

"Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will?  The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor.  Make no mistake about that."  Catherine Marshall

"The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, call the Beloved from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace. We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenenness and no allow our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-rejection."  Henri Nouwen