Quotes from Gina Greenlee

As your training integrates Mind, Body and Spirit, enjoy the process. Your journey to the marathon finish will last a few hours. Your journey to the start will influence a lifetime.

Give full attention to life's moments and the images you capture will be everlasting.

Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet a version of yourself who has been seeking you.

Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.

We can talk about it, dream about it and dissect the fine print. In the end, only action satisfies our longing.

Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.

At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.

When actors encounter a mishap during a stage performance, they transform it for good purpose by employing a technique called, "use the difficulty." How can you "use the difficulty" in your life?

Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.

Much of our lives consists of a series of choices over which we have absolute control.

Imagine how fluid life would be if we each had an advisor who, with our best interest at heart, provided clear, objective and decisive guidance. When we trust our instincts, we do.

Once back home I would adjust my lens to the resolution through which I perceived the people and provinces of the globe. My daily commute, the supermarket check out line, neighborhood walks, pedestrian tasks of any job would inspire me as much as the stir of white linen canopies in Venice's Piazza San Marco; the velvety dunes of the eastern Sahara; Bali's kaleidoscope of color; my Vietnamese sisters.

A craving for company can yield the surprising discovery that the companionship we yearn for is with ourselves.

Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.

By necessity, we are direct and swift in speech and movement. This is the true dynamic that underlies our apocryphal rudeness. Also true: we do not make eye contact. Neither do we encourage it. Consider the number of humans a New Yorker will pass on a given day – on the subway, in a train or bus terminal, in an office or simply walking down the street. To facilitate speed and minimize drama, it's productive to keep one's eyes focused ahead.

No moment is too small to claim. Strung together, moments fashion a life.

Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish

If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself, "How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?

You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it.