Geraldine Brooks Quotes

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

Taking back our light from those we’ve projected it onto opens the door to an unimaginable future.

Be a bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path, you can be the light which truly lights the world.

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and those who don't. Shape yourself in his mold, bathe in his nourishing radiance, and reflect it out to the rest of the world.

Take back your light. Know that when you're in awe of someone else's greatness, you're really seeing yourself. Identify what you most admire or love about others and see how you can nourish those qualities and bring them out in yourself. Instead of fixating on someone else's brilliance, find ways to develop and demonstrate your own.

A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

Transformed people transform people.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.