Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Mark Victor Hansen
There is a distance between believing the Truth and embodying that Truth. We may know that we are children of God with divine capacities, but until we act on that belief, it remains a foggy awareness. Using spiritual practices moves us from believing in God to becoming aware of the reality of God moving in and through us.
Mary Manin Morrissey
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Howard Zinn
The creation of someting new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung
The purpose of miracles is to teach us to see the miraculous everywhere.
St. Augustine
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.
Eva K. Logue
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.
Buddha
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
Buddha
There are two dimensions to life, and we should be able to touch both. One is like a wave, and we call it the historical dimension. The other is like the water, and we call it the ultimate dimension, or nirvana. We usually touch just the wave, but when we discover how to touch the water, we receive the highest fruit that meditation can offer.
Thich Nhat Hanh
In every seed is the promise of thousands of forests. But the seed must not be hoarded; it must give its intelligence to the fertile ground. Through its giving, its unseen energy flows into material manifestation.
Deepak Chopra in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl Sagan
...most of our energy goes into upholding our importance....If we were capable of losing some of that importance, two extraordinary things would happen to us. One, we would free our energy from trying to maintain the illusory idea of our grandeur; and two, we would provide ourselves with enough energy to...catch a glimpse of the actual grandeur of the universe.
Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's The Art of Dreaming
Everything you do should be done with peace. That is the best medicine for your body, mind, and soul. It is the most wonderful way to live.
Paramahansa Yogananda
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Ed Howe
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind -- without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.
William James, Principles of Psychology, 1890
Life is the soul's nursery - its training place for the destinies of eternity.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Remember that the universe is your universe to play with, not the universe with you to play with. It is the road OF enlightenment, not TO enlightenment. Unless that is what it is for you. I have no intention of being wise in my death. I want to be wise in my life.
Janet Barrett
Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.
Eckhart Tolle
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
God wants from me
Sri Chinmoy
A very special favour:
He wants me to teach my mind
How to smile all the time.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Seneca
To him who is in fear, everything rustles.
Sophocles
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
Andre Dubus
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.
Francois Delsarte
Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.
Marcel Morin
Whatever a person's mind dwells on intensely and with firm resolve, that is exactly what he becomes.
Shankaracharya
Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Keep your words positive, because your words become your behaviours.
Keep your behaviours positive, because your behaviours become your habits.
Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.
Above all, a person is his will. As he wills in this life, so he becomes when he departs from it. Therefore let your will be fixed on attaining Brahman.
Chandogya Upanishad
By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life.
Gary Zukav in Seat Of The Soul
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you.
Richard Bach in Johnathan Livingstone Seagull
All they show is limitation.
Look with your understanding,
find out what you already know,
and you'll see the way to fly.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero
Life is the movie you see through your own unique eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Dennis Waitley
What you love, you empower
Author Unknown
And what you fear, you empower
And what you empower, you attract.
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
Lao Tzu
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Albert Schweitzer
The most important thing I have learned is trust. Trust in the knowledge that I do have the ability to make choices and trust that living in the moment will take me through my decision cycle quite naturally.
Lynda Standley Richardson
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos
Meditation doesn't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.
Thubten Yeshe
Jessie Rittenhouse
I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have gladly paid.
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
Chinese Proverb
The mind is like a clear mirror.
Huineng
At all times we must strive to polish it, and must not let the dust collect.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad.
Eckhart Tolle
This being human is a guest house.
Rumi
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
Meet them at the door laughing
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes
Because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Phillips Brooks
To attain knowledge, add things every day.
Tao Te Ching
To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Richard Cecil
I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
Carl Jung
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient.
W.J. Cameron
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
Italian Proverb
We classify too much and enjoy too little.
Okakura Kakuzo
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
Charles Dickens
When the mind is at peace,
Layman Pang-yun
the world too is at peace.
Nothing real, nothing absent.
Not holding on to reality,
not getting stuck in the void,
you are neither holy or wise, just
an ordinary fellow who has completed his work.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
John Keats
I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
Frederick Franck
ever lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't ever belittle someone's suffering. That's where (the loss of humanity) starts.
Ishmael Beah
Life comes from the Spirit. Even as a man casts a shadow, so the Spirit casts the shadow of life, and, as a shadow of former lives, a new life comes to this body.
Upanishads
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Kahlil Gibran
People think I'm disciplined. It's not discipline, it is devotion. There is a great difference.
Luciano Pavarotti
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharial Nehru
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
George Santayana
Things in this world are not always as we wish. When we cannot change circumstances outside of us, we can still change ourselves; and that, often, can help us reach the same goal.
Heart Sutra
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thingyou fear.
William Jennings Bryan
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The surest sign of spiritual progress is a total lack of concern about progress. There is an utter absence of anxiety about anything like liberation and a sort of hollowness in one's being, a kind of looseness and involuntary surrender to whatever might happen.
Ramesh Balsekar
All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Edwin Markham
From contentment with little comes happiness. C
African Proverb
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound. Rebuild those plans and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Hyman Judah Schachtel
"If thou wouldst know contentment, let thy deeds be few," said the sage. Better still, limit them strictly to such as are essential, and to such as in a social being reason demands, and as it demands. This brings the contentment that comes of doing a few things and doing them well.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls... A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
Mother Teresa
Friendship is a mysterious power: you show your friend your weakness, and somehow you are both the stronger.
Martin Amis
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.
Lao Tzu
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect--a confluence that may seem random but usually happens "by design."
Clement Mok
We all came into this world gifted with innocence, but gradually, as we became more intelligent, we lost our innocence. We were born with silence and as we grew up, we lost the silence and were filled with words. We lived in our hearts and as time passed, we moved into our heads.
Now the reversal of this journey is enlightenment. It is the journey from the head back to the heart, from words back to silence; getting back to our innocence in spite of our intelligence. Although very simple, this is a great achievement.
Eckhart Tolle
Human beings only learn and evolve through relationship. The only way we can see ourselves objectively is through the reflection of others. We can go off and sit in a cave and meditate for years, but we only really find out what happened in that cave when we come out and get involved with other people. So we need each other if we want to evolve.
Andrew Cohen
Everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.
G.I. Gurdjieff
Enlightenment is a rare combination of innocenceand intelligence, having words for expression and, at the same time, being very silent. In that state, the mind is fully in the present moment. Whatever is necessary is revealed to you in such a natural and spontaneous way, you just sit and the song of the nature flows through you.
Sri Sri Ravishankar
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
We do not receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Become aware that there are no accidents in our intelligent universe. Realize that everything that shows up in your life has something to teach you. Appreciate everyone and everything in your life.
Wayne Dyer
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
Bill Dodds
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
Leonardo da Vinci
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
Doug Larson
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
Walter Scott
And men below, and saints above:
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
Cicero
Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone.
Samuel Johnson
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
William Grimshaw
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Mother Teresa
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is life, fight for it!
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
The tenacity of habit is usually in proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
Baal Shem Tov
A man abandons worn out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the self, who lives within.
Bhagavad-GitaNothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Francois de Sales
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl Buechner
In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it's true.
Robert Oppenheimer
The difference between being knowledgeable and being enlightened is that one who is knowledgeable leads the way with a torch, while an enlightened one is a torch.
Anthony de Mello
When you are no longer compelled by desire or fear . . . when you have seen the radiance of eternity in all forms of time . . . when you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors . . . and the world will step in and help.
Joseph Campbell
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Hasidic Saying
Ifrejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.
Brian Tracy
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.
Nathaniel Branden
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
John Atkinson
The mind is its own place, and in itself,can make heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.
John Milton
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
John Hanley
Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.
Werner Erhard
Knowledge is like light, use it and it grows brighter, ignore it and it fades away.
Alexander Everett
Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is the supreme creative act.
Ram Dass
You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcom X
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Frank Crane
The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
Henry Miller
People cannot live gracefully or peacefully, joyfully or justly, without celebration in their lives, . . . without awe.
Matthew Fox
When I dare to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
The greatest obstacle to progress is not the absence of knowledge, but the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
Saadi of Shiraz
It's amazing how much you can hear when no one is saying anything.
Elaine St. James in Inner Simplicity
Consciousness precedes being, and not the other way around, for this reason, the salvation in this world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in human responsibility.
Vaclav Havel
By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness which is a natural source of goodness.
The Dalai Lama
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficutly to make--to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
Anais Nin
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
Vincent van Gogh
Think of all sentient beings as buddha, but keep your hand on your wallet.
Tibetan Saying
The origin of human violence is that we hold other people's pasts against them.
Michael Conklin
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Igor Stravinsky
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Chinese proverb
When we leave this world, how much we have loved will be our true legacy. It is the only thing we will leave behind and carry with us.
Anne Siloy
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Jimmy Carter
The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.
Geoffrey Madan
Hah! The Dark Side -- Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
Yoda in Star Wars, Episode One: The Phantom Menace
It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted.
Catherine O'Hara
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mahatma Gandhi
As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles.
Walt Whitman
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharial Nehru
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.
ThomasJefferson
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale
I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward somone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
Dost thou lovelife? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
Ben Franklin
Cherish your vision and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey
The past is to learn from and not to live in.
Richard L. Evans
You can't see the light in others until you see it in yourself. Once you see it in yourself, there is no one in whom you do not see the light. It does not matter if they see it or not. You know it's there. And it is the light you address when you speak to them.
Paul Ferrini
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
HenryDrummond
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
Victor Frankl
Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question...Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.
Carlos Castaneda
Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.
Marianne Williamson
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows.Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.
Robert A. Heinlein
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the Heart.
Helen Keller
We must find our own particular way of loving the world and put our energy into it. Decide your way of loving and you will be rewarded.
Bernie SiegelThe quieter you become the more you can hear.
Ram Dass
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
John Macy
Your duty is to be; and not to be this or that.
Sri Ramana Maharishi
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry L. Stimson
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. Jackson Brown
Peace originates with the flow of things - its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins that circulate blood through our bodies, following the natural flow of the life force.
Morihei Ueshiba
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
A Course In Miracles
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.
Marie Beyon Ray
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Ben Hecht
Whenever you areconfronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Goethe
The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes,provided we arrive at the same destination.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
David Riesman
Good friends and excellent teachers - Stick close to them! Wealth and power are fleeting dreams but wise words perfume the world for ages.
Ryokan
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.
Pauline R. Kezer
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