That's what happens when you're angry
at people. You make them part of your life.
--Garrison
Keillor
Life has lessons to teach. We can
remember them and share them with others, or we can forget them and have to
learn them again.
--Jan Pishok
Only by holding ourselves with the
compassion of forgiveness do we experience our goodness and respond to
ourselves with wisdom and care.
--Tara Brach
There only one corner of the universe
you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin
there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterward, when you've
worked on your own corner.
--Aldous Huxley
There is no happiness; there are only
moments of happiness.
--Spanish proverb
Today well-lived makes each yesterday
a beautiful memory and each tomorrow a vision of promise.
--Author Unknown
All truths wait in all things.
- Walt Whitman
The most wasted day of all is that on
which we have not laughed.
--Sebastien R. N.
Chamfort
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be
changed until it is faced.
--James Baldwin
Nonviolence is the weapon of the
strong.
--Mahatma Gandhi
What is defeat?. . . Nothing but the
first step to something better.
--Wendell Phillips
Everything
changes. Nothing remains without change.
--Gautama Buddha
What would it be like if you lived
each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a
masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form
with every breath.
--Thomas Crum
We can do no great things, only small things
with great love.
--Mother Teresa
If you can laugh at it, you can live with
it.
--Erma Bombeck
Patience is a particular requirement.
Without it, you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair.
--Charlie
W. Shedd
You really need to take care of
yourself because you won't be good for anyone else unless you take care of
yourself.
--Harry
Bartholomew
People are lonely because they build
walls instead of bridges.
--Joseph Fort
Newton
You do not need
to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even
listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world
will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll
in ecstasy at your feet.
--Franz Kafka
Be not afraid of life. Believe that
life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
--William James
Take care of the earth. It was not given to
you by your parents; it was loaned to you by your children.
--Native American proverb
We have not inherited the world from our forefathers-- we have borrowed it from
our children.
--Kashmiri proverb
Why is it so difficult to find God? It is because you are looking for something
you have never lost.
--Meher Baba
When the mind is not aroused, this is
discipline.
When the mind is unmoved, this is concentration.
When the mind is not obscured, this is insight.
--Hseuh-yen, 13th Century Ch’an Master
We are not unlike a particularly
hardy crustacean. ... With each passage from one stage of human growth to the
next, we, too, must shed a protective structure.
--Gail Sheehy
Existence begins in every instant.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
They are able because they think they
are able.
--Virgil
Self-pity in its early stages is as
snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
--Maya Angelou
Feel the life that you are, the life that
animates the body. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your abdomen, your
chest...
- Eckhart Tolle
Regret is an appalling waste of
energy, you can't build on it: it's only good for wallowing in.
--Katherine
Mansfield
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become
what we think. When the mind is pure,
joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
--Gautama Buddha
He who helps a friend in woe is like
a fur coat in the snow.
--Russian Proverb
Even
after
all this time
the sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look
what happens with a love like that,
It lights the
whole
sky.
--Hafiz (translated by Daniel Ladinsky)
This is the true joy in life, to be used for
a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, to be thoroughly worn out
before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
To be a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments
and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you
happy. I am a member of a community and
as a member it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can before I die. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort
of splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before
handing it on to future generations.
--George Bernard Shaw
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
--D. H. Lawrence
Keep knocking and the joy inside will
eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.
--Jelaluddin Rumi
Facts are not frightening. But if you try to avoid them, turn your
back and run, then that is frightening.
--Krishnamurti
Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never
see the beauty of their canyons.
--Elisabeth
Kubler-Ross
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts
in your head.
--Sally Kempton
I don't think of
all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
As we are, so do we see.
--William Blake
Nothing is worth more than this day.
--Goethe
Even if you understand and follow all
of the rules for more effectively engaging manipulators, life with them is not
likely to be easy.
--George K. Simon
Jr.
There is only one great adventure and that
is inwards towards the self.
--Henry Miller
The world is its own magic.
--Suzuki Roshi
Cherish that which is within you.
--Chang-tzu
We will not learn how to live together in
peace by killing each other’s
--Jimmy Carter
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of
the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
--Gautama Buddha
Mile by mile, life's a trial.
Yard by yard, it's not so hard.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
--Proverb
Too often we underestimate the power of a
touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest
act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
--Leo Buscaglia
Silence is Golden; it has divine power and
immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds.
Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes
still. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during
its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is
an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every
song, and every word. The unmanifested is present in this world as silence. All
you have to do is pay attention to it.
--Eckhart Tolle
Grief is a journey, often perilous and
without clear direction, that must be taken. The experience of grieving cannot
be ordered or categorized, hurried or controlled, pushed aside or ignored
indefinitely. It is inevitable as breathing, as change, as love. It may be
postponed, but it will not be denied.
--Molly Fumia
Show me the enforced laws of a state for the
prevention of cruelty to animals and I in turn will give you a correct estimate
of the refinement, enlightenment, integrity and equality of that commonwealth's
people.
--L.T. Danshiell
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but
he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
--Chinese Proverb
To speak ill of others is a dishonest
way of praising ourselves.
--Will Durant
Remember to be gentle with yourself and
others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields
will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for
those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no
less than yours, their choices in life no more easily made. And
Give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess.... Care less for
your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your
heart will have peace.
--Kent Nerburn, Letter to My Son
How beautiful it is to do nothing,
and then rest afterward.
--Spanish proverb
It is one of the most beautiful compensations
of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping
themselves.
--Emerson
The world can only be as sane and healthy as
the individuals living in it. If we want to live in a balanced
environment, we must find and heal what is out of balance with ourselves.
--Mahatma Gandhi
There is an Indian proverb or axiom that
says that everyone is a house with four rooms: a physical, a mental, an
emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of
the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it
aired, we are not a complete person.
--Rumer Godden in A House with Four Rooms
--Anonymous
It may be that when we no longer know what
to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way
to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not
employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
--Wendell Berry
Who do you hold above you or below you?
Someone is being diminished.
--K. Bradford Brown
Why is it so difficult to find God? It is
because you are looking for something you have never lost.
--Avatar Meher Baba, Meher Baba Calling, p.
30
Blessed is he who has learned to
admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and
to lead but not manipulate.
-- William Arthur
Ward
May your trails be crooked, winding,
lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
--Edward Abbey
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
--Doug Floyd
Spirituality is the sacred center out
of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays, rainy Saturday
afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail . . . The spiritual journey
is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life.
--Christina
Baldwin, Life's Companion [1990]
Walk slowly. Don't rush. Each step brings
you to the best moment of your life, the present moment.
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Can you imagine if you really let it in that
you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that
anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the
mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to
be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when
the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that
passes all understanding."
--Adyashanti
One can never
consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
--Helen Keller
There is no way to
peace. Peace is the way.
--A.J. Muste
Compassion directed
toward oneself is true humility.
--Simone Weil
One hundred percent
of the shots you don't make won't go in.
--Wayne Gretzky
Leap and the net
will appear.
--Julia Cameron
Only those who dare
to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
--Robert F. Kennedy
Train yourself to
let go of everything you fear to lose.
--Jedi Master Yoda
So live that you
wouldn't mind selling the family parrot to the town gossip.
--Will Rogers
All the harm, fear,
and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why
should I hold on to this great demon?
--Shantideva
Our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake
ourselves.
--Mahatma Gandhi
It is better to light a candle than to curse
the darkness.
-- Chinese Proverb
Behind an able man there are always other
able men.
--Chinese proverb
Everyone wishes to
have truth on their side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
--Richard Whately
Paradise is where I
am.
--Voltaire
Everything we are
looking for is right here in the present moment.
- -Thich Nhat
Hanh
Without the
bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send
forth their fragrance to the whole world?
--Basho
The best place to find a helping hand is at
the end of your own arm.
--Swedish proverb
I can change only myself, but sometimes that
is enough.
--Ruth Humlecker
This is a simple program for complicated
people.
--Saying heard at meetings
Gratitude is the
memory of the heart.
--J. B. Massieu
The best things in
life are nearest. Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at
your feet, duties at your hand, the path right just before you.
--Robert Louis
Stevenson
Trying to pray is praying.
--Anonymous
Learning to live is
learning to let go.
--Sogyal Rinpoche
One cannot have wisdom without living life.
--Dorothy McCall
The secret of
success is constancy of purpose.
--Benjamin Disraeli
Be yourself.
No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.
--James Leo Herlihy
If one can accept one's sin, one can live
with it. If one cannot accept it, one has to suffer the inevitable
consequences.
–-Carl Jung
Life is something
that has to be lived and not talked about.
--Carl Gustav Jung
There is a voice
that doesn't use words. Listen.
--Jelaluddin Rumi
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And ne'er a word said she;
But, Oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me!
--Robert Browning Hamilton
Courage is the power to let go of the
familiar.
--Raymond Lindquist
The purpose of life is not to get rid of the
butterflies in your stomach, but to make them fly in formation.
--Author unknown
Don't chase after
your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Find joy and peace in this
very moment.
--Thich Nhat Hanh
The question we
need to ask ourselves is whether there is any place we can stand in ourselves
where we can look at all that's happening around us without freaking out, where
we can be quiet enough to hear our predicament, and where we can begin to find
ways of acting that are at least not contributing to further destabilization.
--Ram Dass
There is no reality
except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such
an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and
never allow the world within to assert itself.
--Hermann Hesse
My life is my
message.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling
through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other
thoughts are drained.
--Arthur Somers Roche
Feel yourself being
quietly drawn by the deeper pull of what you truly love.
--Jelaluddin Rumi
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
--George Santayana
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
Your vision will become clear only when you
look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside,
awakens.
--Carl Jung
Sharing is healing.
--Cathy Stone
Peace begins with each of us taking care of
our bodies and minds everyday.
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Love is a positive feeling and if one
cultivates this feeling in their life, they will surely free themselves from
any unbalanced condition that surrounds them.
--Syd Banks
When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.
--Anonymous
Kindness is the
mark of faith; and whoever has not kindness has not faith.
--The Prophet
Mohammed
When we walk to the edge of the light we
have and take that step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one
of two things will happen: there will be something solid for us to stand on or
we will be taught to fly.
—Anonymous
We have to make a
very sharp distinction between authentic religion and hijacked religion.
Authentic religion is a message of peace. No variations.
--Huston Smith
And this above all, to thine own self be
true.
And it must follow as night the day,
thou canst not be false to any man.
--Shakespeare
Religion is a way
of walking, not a way of talking.
--Dean William R.
Inge
Fine friendship requires duration rather
than fitful intensity.
--Aristotle
The Buddha's
teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no
sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest
to do so.
--Norm Phelps
The human brain
forgets ninety percent of what goes on.
--Jan Milner
If you don't live
it, it won't come out your horn.
--Charlie Parker
Whatever you love,
you are.
--Jelaluddin Rumi
A smile is the
shortest distance between two people.
--Victor Borge
The wise person
says, "I am looking for the truth," and the fool, "I have found
the truth."
--Russian proverb
We are what we
think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts,
we make the world.
--Gautama Buddha
Right now, at this
very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to
achieve complete happiness.
--Howard Cutler
It isn't for the moment you are struck that
you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and
security.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The more deeply we
are our true selves, the less self is in us.
--Meister Eckhart
When we restore
peace within ourselves, we have a chance to restore peace with others.
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Kindness in words
creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
--Lao-Tzu
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who
finds himself, loses his misery.
--Matthew Arnold
May God steal from
you
All that steals you
from Him.
Rabi'a al-Alawiyya,
Islamic mystic
May the tree of our
life
Be firmly rooted in
the soil of love.
Let good deeds be
the leaves on the tree.
May words of
kindness form its flowers
And may peace be
its fruits.
--Amma
I always entertain great hopes.
--Robert Frost
When we speak of
being highly developed spiritually, this does not mean that we float in the
air. In the fact, the higher we go, the more we come down to earth.
--Chogyam
Trungpa
Nothing will
benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as
much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
--Albert Einstein
I shall tell you a great secret, my
friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
--Albert Camus
To understand
everything is to forgive everything.
--Gautama Buddha
Humility is our acceptance of ourselves.
--Anonymous
There is no end.
There is no beginning.
There is only the
infinite passion of life.
--Federico Fellini
All know that the
drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
--Kabir
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you
tend to see every problem as a nail.
--Abraham Maslow
All the art of
living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
--Havelock Ellis
Yesterday is
already gone, tomorrow is not yet here. Today is the only day available
to us. Today is the most important day of our lives.
--Thich Nhat Hanh
Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful
than evasions of reality.
--Caitlin Thomas
..the world moves
for love. It kneels before it in awe...
--M. Night
Shyamalan
Evil is an
abstraction that enables you to look at someone and not see the person.
--Lee Thorn
Not to hurt our
humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is
not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they
require it... If you have people who will exclude any of God's creatures from
the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have people who will deal likewise
with their fellow humans.
--St. Francis of
Assisi
As the State is a
soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its
very existence.
--Mohandas K.
Gandhi
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness
heals all ills.
--Catherine Ponder
You grow up the first day you have the first
real laugh—at yourself.
--Ethel Barrymore
The moment one
gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a
mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
--Henry Miller
Let everyone sweep in front of his [or her]
own door, and the whole world will be clean.
--Goethe
There is no need
for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own
heart is our temple: The philosophy is kindness.
--H. H. the Dalai
Lama
Great teachers
never strive to explain their vision - they simply invite you to stand beside
them and see for yourself.
--Rev. R. Inman
Contentment and
happiness depend solely on the mind, not on external objects or circumstances.
--Amma
Love is the lamp that lights the universe:
without that light . . . the earth is a barren promontory and man the
quintessence of dust.
--Mary Elizabeth Braddon
If you don't have a
sense of humor, it's just not funny anymore.
--Wavy Gravy
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin
it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
--Goethe
If you look for the
truth outside yourself, it gets farther and farther away.
Tung-Shan
The man who never alters his opinion is like
standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
-- William Blake
Learning stamps you with its moments.
--Eudora Welty
Your worry, your fear,
your small-mindedness...
Your garden can
never be taken from you.
--Lynn Park
Do not cut down the tree that gives you
shade.
--Arabian proverb
Sometimes your only
available transportation is a leap of faith.
--Rev. Margaret
Shepard
When I came in, they told me, "Let us
love you until you can learn to love yourself.
--Anonymous
Compassion, in
which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if
it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to humankind.
--Albert Schweitzer
In the end one only
experiences oneself.
--Friedrich
Nietzsche
The first step to
wisdom is silence; the second is listening.
--Author Unknown
We are all
connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore,
everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts,
words, images, prayers, blessings and deeds are listened to by all that is.
--Serge Kahili King
Of course, it is
important to be a good listener—but it also pays, sometimes, to be a little
deaf.
--Ruth Bader
Ginsburg's mother-in-law's advice to her on conflict resolution
The Bookshop has a thousand books,
All colors, hues, and tinges,
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges.
--Nancy Byrd Turner
When I listen to
the music of life, I'm able to join in the dancing.
--Katherine Long
If you can solve
your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it,
then what is the use of worrying?
--Shantideva
I wanted a perfect
ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and
some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not
knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without
knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
--Gilda Radner (passed
away of ovarian cancer at age 42)
I don't know the key to success, but the key
to failure is trying to please everybody.
--Bill Cosby
Enjoy your
body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what
--Kurt Vonnegut
Fair play is primarily not blaming others
for anything that is wrong with us.
--Eric Hoffer
We're not here to lose our sense of humor.
--Richie Berlin
It takes about ten years to get used to how
old you are.
--Unknown
Nobody throws
stones through somebody else's window if they've got a window of
--Ronald Bruder,
founder of Education for Employment
Do all you can with
all that you have, in the time that you have, in the place
--Author Unknown
Blessed are those
who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
--Author Unknown
The sun shines
down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with
water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same
sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we see ourselves
in all people.
--Amma
Change in all things is sweet.
--Aristotle
It is more profitable to turn away thine
eyes from such things as displease thee than to be a slave to contention.
--Thomas a Kempis
The future you shall know when it has come;
before then, forget it.
--Aeschylus
If you come to help
me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your
liberation is bound with mine, then let us work together.
--Lilla Watson,
Aboriginal elder
Dream always of a
peaceful, warless, disarmed world.
--Robert Muller
Pray to God, row to shore.
--Anonymous
The greatest weapon
against stress is our ability to choose one thought over
--William James
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes
that everything is an emergency.
--Natalie Goldberg
If only we could
pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
--Pablo Picasso
We must take care
not to make intellect our god. It has, of course, powerful
--Albert Einstein
The winds of grace are blowing all the time.
You have only to raise your sail.
--Sri Ramakrishna
The Universe does
not want you perfect, it wants you to be perfectly you.
Find your true Self
are and you become peace.
--Author Unknown
Whoever is happy will make others happy,
too.
--Anne Frank
What would you
attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
--Dr. Robert H.
Schuller
Keep away from
people who try to belittle your ambitions. Smart people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
--Mark Twain
We should be careful to get out of an experience
only the wisdom that is in it - and stay there, lest we be like the cat that
sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid
again... but also, she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
--Mark Twain
We're all animals and we all have basically
the same rules. Be nice.
--Jules Sylvester, professional snake
handler
All beings tremble before violence.
All fear death. All love life.
--Gautama Buddha
Seven blunders of
the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without
conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science
without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Life is life's
greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it
is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to
the creature that owns it than the largest.
--Lloyd Buggle, Jr.
To render ourselves insensible to pain we
must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
--Sir John Lubbock
Education should be the process of helping
everyone to discover his uniqueness.
--Leo Buscaglia
It is not because things are difficult that
we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
--Seneca
Kindness is more
important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the
--Theodore Rubin
We are what we are.
--Motto of Lake Wobegon, Garrison Keillor
Western laziness
consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so
--Sogyal Rinpoche
Do what you must,
be wise, cut your vines
And forget about
hope. Time goes running, even
As we talk. Take
the present, the future's no one's affair.
--Horace
One can travel this
world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is
--Giorgio Morandi
The reality is that changes are coming . .
.They must come. You must share in bringing them.
--John Hersey
All of life is a
dream. We are a walking mirror. God is a mirror—everything that we
think, feel or believe is reflected back to us through this great mirror that
is life. The world does not create what we are experiencing;
--Don Jose Luis
Watching a child acquire language, I
realize, again, that naming things demystifies them.
--Mary Casey
Life is not life at all without delight.
--Coventry Patmore
WILL POWER = Our WILL-ingness to use a
Higher POWER.
--Anonymous
I believe that
unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil
--Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
He can jail me, he
may even kill me, but he can't make me hate him.
--Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., referring to Governor George Wallace
We must rapidly
begin the shift from a THING oriented society to a PERSON oriented
society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights
are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism,
militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered. A
nation can flounder as readily in the face of moral and spiritual bankruptcy as
it can through financial bankruptcy.
--Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Peace is more than
the absence of tension. It is the presence of justice.
--Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
He who has a thousand friends has not a
friend to spare.
--Ai Ibn-Abu-Talib
Be aware of wonder.
--Robert Fulghum
Silence is deep as
Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
--Thomas Carlysle
The thought
manifests as the word; the word manifests as the deed; the deed
develops into habit; and habit hardens into character. So watch the
thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern
for all beings.
--Gautama Buddha
The remarkable
thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others
as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We
are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others
when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are
ready to sacrifice ourselves.
--Eric Hoffer
What is necessary
to change a person is to change their awareness of themselves.
--Abraham Maslow
The deeds you do
today may be the only sermon some people will hear today.
--St. Francis of
Assisi
Fear is the
cheapest
room in the house.
I'd like to see you
in better living
conditions.
--Hafiz
Gratitude is not
only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all others.
--Cicero
We must be willing
to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting
for us.
--E. M. Forster
On the day you were
born, you begin to die. Do not waste a single moment more.
--Dilgo Khyentse
Rinpoche
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Whether our lives
and our deaths were for peace and a new hope or for nothing we cannot say; it
is you who must say this. We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.
--Archibald
MacLeish, WW I veteran
Unless our desire for human compassion is
stronger than our desire to be right, to be secure or to belong, love will
elude us.
--Marsha Sinetar
The perspective of
Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big
enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the
continuation of destructiveness. The end of separation is the salvation
for all.
--Adyashanti
Love cures people,
both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
--Dr. Karl
Menninger
Courage is fear
that has said its prayers.
--Dorothy Bernard
All things come to
him who waits—provided he knows what he is waiting for.
--Woodrow Wilson
Courage is more
than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that
conviction.
--Julian Weber Gordon
How poor are they
who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
--William
Shakespeare
It takes time to
succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do
anything well.
--Joseph Ross
Courage is what it
takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and
listen.
--Winston Churchill
We are put here on
earth to learn to endure the beams of love.
--William Blake
Keep your recovery First to make it Last.
--Anonymous
Be the person your
dog thinks you are.
--Author Unknown
Happiness cannot be
traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual
experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
--Denis Waitley
Most people are
prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not
in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
--Carlos Santana
Everything's got a moral if only you can
find it.
--Lewis Carroll
Take sips of this
pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.
--Jelaluddin Rumi
Your concept or
perception of reality is not reality.
When you are caught
in your perceptions and ideas
you lose reality.
--Thich Nhat Hanh
A bit of the
fragrance clings to the hand that gives the flowers.
--Chinese Proverb
For fast acting
relief, try slowing down.
--Lily Tomlin
I saw the angel in the marble and carved
until I set him free.
--Michelangelo
All animals except man know that the
ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
--Samuel Butler
It is not my
experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change
anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us.
And if part of that
change is that the suffering of the world moves us to compassion, to awareness,
to sympathy, to love, that is a very good
--Cheri Huber
Courage: The power to let go of the
familiar.
--Raymond Lindquist
Gratitude is our
most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time,
--Terry Lynn Taylor
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn
go back into the same box.
--Italian proverb
Always forgive your enemies—nothing annoys
them so much.
--Oscar Wilde
Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the
moon, come out from the clouds! Shine.
--Gautama Buddha
The greatest
tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place
--Amma
Before a secret is told, one can often feel
the weight of it in the atmosphere.
--Susan Griffin
The quality of
mercy is not strain'd; it droppeth as the Gentle Rain from
Heaven Upon the
Place beneath. It is twice Blest: It blesseth the one that
--William
Shakespeare
Peace is not the
absence of conflict; it's the absence of inner conflict.
--Author Unknown
F.E.A.R. = Frustration, Ego, Anxiety and
Resentment.
--Anonymous
The Separation
between "you" and "I", you and your world, you and your God
is cut through by a sense of humor.
--Chogyam Trungpa
Rinpoche
If not us, who?
If not here, where?
If not now, when?
If not for the
kingdom, why?
Dare the dream.
--Author Unknown,
adapted from Rabbi Hillel
We do not remember
days, we remember moments.
--Casare Pavese
Unstiffen your
supple body.
Unchatter your
quiet mind.
Unfreeze your fiery
heart.
--Celeste West
Life is a verb, not
a noun.
--Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
As long as the
earth can make a Spring every year, I can.
And as long as the
Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can.
--Alice Walker
There are two ways
to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other
--Soren Kierkegaard
You love me so much; you want to put me in
your pocket. And I should die there smothered.
--D. H. Lawrence
Awake. Be the
witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
--Gautama Buddha
Contentment makes poor men rich. Discontent
makes rich men poor.
--Benjamin Franklin
To know that you
are a prisoner of your mind, that you live in an imaginary
--Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj
Unconditional love corresponds to one of the
deepest longings, not only of the child, but of every human being.
--Erich Fromm
We find comfort
among those who agree with us—growth among those who don't.
--Frank A. Clark
Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
--Rose Kennedy
Words are the voice of the heart.
--Confucius
The world I see: A
frozen barren wasteland it would be
Without the work my
head and heart
And hands do
To heal its pain.
All things must
die, and then be born anew.
To help in this
great task, that life be not
In vain,
The world needs me.
--Michael Hedley
Burton
Time spent attempting to change others
affords little time for personal change.
--Georgette Vickstrom
No act of kindness,
however small, is ever wasted.
--Aesop
A medical doctor, George S. Stevenson,
wrote, "The solution may not give you everything you want. Sometimes, it
may give you nothing but a chance to start all over again. But whatever little
it gives you is much more than you give yourself by letting your emotions tear
you apart."
I have no doubt
that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I
have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option.
I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the
world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than
them all.
--Elie Wiesel
A room without books is like a body without
a soul.
--Cicero
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
--Samuel Johnson
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a
knot and hang on.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When one is full of
Love and Compassion, one cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths,
or two religions.
--Amma
When we love a
person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the
strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the
only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.
--Fred Rogers
I can't handle it, God. You take over.
--Anonymous
Count no day lost
in which you waited your turn, took only your share, and
--Robert Brault
I can stand what I know. It's what I don't
know that frightens me.
--Frances Newton
You are cold, but you expect kindness.
What you do comes back in the same form.
God is compassionate,
but if you plant barley,
don't expect to harvest wheat.
--Jelaluddin Rumi
There is nothing permanent except change.
--Heraclitus
I wish we were not so single-minded about
keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of
threatening ourselves with death.
--Pablo Neruda
Inside yourself or
outside, you never have to change what you are, only the way you see it.
--Thaddeus Golas
The universe is full of magical things,
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
--Eden Phillpotts
A smile is the
lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head, and the heating
system of the heart.
--Author Unknown
All rising to great
places is by a winding stair.
--Gautama Buddha
All human beings hold to the tools of their
own destruction.
--Barbara Gordon author of "I'm Dancing
as Fast as I Can" [1979]
You cannot do a
kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
--Ralph Waldo
Emerson
The opposite of
love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not
ugliness, it's
indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's
indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
--Elie Wiesel
We make a living by what we get, but we make
a life by what we give.
--Winston Churchill
My religion is very
simple. My religion is kindness.
--His Holiness The
Dalai Lama
You know you've
created God in your own image when he hates the same people you do.
--Annie Lamott
In the end, our
society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to
destroy.
--J. Sawhill
Love involves a willingness to suffer and to
be inconvenienced.
--Lewis F. Presnall
If we are facing in the right direction, all
we have to do is keep on walking.
--Buddhist Saying
People say you have to travel to see the
world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your
eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.
--Paul Auster
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good
health, and a bad memory.
--Clare Boothe Luce
If there's a harder way of doing something,
someone will find it.
--Ralph E. Ross
Our deeds determine us, as much as we
determine our deeds.
--George Eliot
One comes, finally, to believe whatever one
repeats to one's self, whether the statement is true or false.
--Napoleon Hill
Over and over, we begin again.
--Banana Yoshimoto
Don't let the fear
of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing
it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to
the best possible use.
--Earl Nightingale
If I were given the opportunity to present a
gift to the next generation it would be the ability of each individual to learn
to laugh at himself.
--Charles Schultz
Scatter joy.
--Ralph Waldo
Emerson
The aim of life is
to live, and to live means to be awake, joyously, drunkenly,
--Henry Miller
Be not afraid of
going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
--Chinese Proverb
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of
money.
--Pablo Picasso
We should take
care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism
above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus
inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism
should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness
in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with... the
other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and
goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice
as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class
against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this
good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.
--Lord Baden-Powell
With each true friendship,
we build more firmly the foundation on which the peace of the whole world
rests.
--Mahatma Gandhi
In the solitude of
your mind
are the answers
to all your questions
about life.
You must
take the time
to ask
and
listen.
--Bawa Mahaiyaddeen
Perhaps peace is
not, after all, something you work for, or "fight for". It is
indeed "fighting for peace" that starts all the wars. What,
after all, are the pretexts of all these Cold War crises but "fighting for
peace"? Peace is something you have or do not have. If you are
yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then
share your peace with everyone and everyone will be at peace.
--Thomas Merton
Find your true
weakness and surrender to it.
Therein lies the
path to genius.
Most people spend
their lives using their strengths
to overcome or
cover up their weaknesses.
Those few who use
their strengths
to incorporate
their weaknesses,
who don't divide
themselves,
those people are
very rare.
In any generation
there are a few
and they lead their
generation.
--Moshe Feldenkrais
One deceit needs many others, and so the
whole house is built in the air and must soon come crashing down.
-- Baltasar Gracian
Teaching a child
not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the
caterpillar.
--Bradley Miller
The really happy
person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a
detour.
--Sir James Jeans
... the more you
become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment,
depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will
gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego -- your need to possess and
control -- and transform you into a generous being. The sense of
gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous -- large
souled.
--Sam Keen
Nothing is unless
our thinking makes it so.
--William
Shakespeare
A man takes a drink, the drink takes
another, and the drink takes the man.
-- Sinclair Lewis
Only with
equanimity can we see that everything that comes into our circle has come to
teach us what we need to know.
--Pema Chodron
This is the true
joy of Life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty
one... the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod
of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to
making you happy.
--George Bernard
Shaw
Nothing happens to any man that he is not
formed by nature to bear.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Be the person you
wish others to be.
--Margaret Ryan
Peace begins when
you smile, when you help, when you listen.
Peace begins when
you breathe, when you breathe, when you breathe.
When you breathe
slowly and consciously, you quiet your body's stress chemistry, you begin to
relax, you create peace.
Imagine everyone on
earth breathing, relaxing, creating peace.
Peace begins right
now, this moment.
Peace begins with
you.
--Marc Rosenbush
When you know a thing, to hold that you know
it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is
knowledge.
-- Confucius
Look, the wind vane fluttering in the autumn
breeze
Takes hold of certain things that cannot be
held.
--Feng Chih
The foolish reject
what they see and not what they think;
the wise reject
what they think and not what they see.
--Huang Po
All things pass... Patience attains all that
it strives for.
--St. Teresa of Avila
In conflict, it is
love that wins. Love is the strongest protection. If you have love,
it is as if Heaven itself were keeping you safe.
--Tao Te Ching 67
It is a long baptism into the seas of
humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.
--Tillie Olsen
When we treat man
as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
--Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
We make a living by what we get. We
make a life by what we give.
--Winston Churchill
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet
sheds on the heel that crushed it.
--Mark Twain
I offer you peace.
I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need.
I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that
Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
--Mahatma Gandhi
Let's rally for
peace... Understanding is knowing what to do. Wisdom is knowing
what to do next. Virtue is actually doing it.
--Tristan Gylberd
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to
overdo.
--Bernard Baruch
The world cannot
continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual
pygmies.
--Basil O'Connor
When the power of
love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
--Jimi Hendrix
I never intend to
adjust myself to the madness of militarism.
--Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The secret of
health
for both mind and
body
is not to mourn for
the past,
worry about the
future,
or anticipate
troubles
but to live in the
present moment
wisely and
earnestly.
--Gautama Buddha
The best things in life are appreciated most
after they have been lost.
--Roy L. Smith
Respectful
dialogue, in the interest of searching for more complete truth, is considerably
more productive than arguing for the purity of position.
--Gerard Vanderhaar
It is easier to fight for one's principles
than live up to them.
--Alfred Adler
May the peace of
God disturb you always.
--Fr. Anthony De
Mello
Imagination is more
valuable than knowledge.
--Albert Einstein
Today's
impossibilities are tomorrow's miracles.
--Dr. Robert H.
Schuller
The sign of God is
that we may be led where we did not plan to go.
--Unknown
Your brain is capable of handling 140,000
million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or
weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable
property.
--Jerry Gillies
A non-violent
revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of
transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.
--"Gandhi on
Non-Violence", ed. by Thomas Merton
Can I see another's
woe, and not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's
grief, and not seek for kind relief?
--William Blake
And if not now, when?
--The Talmud
We dance round in a
ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits
in the middle and knows.
--Robert Frost
Finish each day and
be done with it... You have done what you could; some blunders and
absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow
is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely.
--Ralph Waldo
Emerson
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a
state of grace, ease and lightness.
--Eckhart Tolle
One night I lay
awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers. And I learned that pilgrims from
every land, every color and class and rank, all snored in the same language.
--Malcolm X
Discussion is for
those who say, "What I say is right, and what you say is
wrong." A sage never says such a thing. Hence, there is no
discussion.
--Hazrat Inayat
Khan
Love is an expression and assertion of
self-esteem.
--Ayn Rand
Drops of water
hollow out a stone.
--favorite proverb
of Pope John XXII
If one is going to be truthful, one has to
be very tender.
--Florida Scott-Maxwell
More! More! is the
cry of a mistaken soul.
--William Blake
Nobody's family can hang out the sign,
"Nothing's the matter here."
--Chinese Proverb
Simple is
beautiful.
Knowing how to
simplify our minds from desire and greed will make our lives full of happiness
and peace.
--Cahyanto Lesmana
When we are unable
to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
--Francois de la
Rouchefoucauld
Every corner of the public psyche is
canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some
merchandisable product can be cultivated.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of
this, you are dreadfully like other people.
--James Russell Lowell
The brave don't
live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!
--Timothy Luce
I can live for two months on a good
compliment.
--Mark Twain
The evils of
government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.
--Frank Kent
The whole aim of
practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an
endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
--H. L. Mencken
The miracle is not
to walk on water.
The miracle is to
walk on the green earth,
dwelling deeply in
the present moment
and feeling truly
alive.
--Thich Nhat Hanh
God creates. People rearrange.
--Joseph Casey
A change of heart
or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively
consumptive way of life.
--Wendell Berry
Peace we want
because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
--Indira Gandhi
When one door closes, fortune will usually
open another.
-- Fernando De Rojas
What difference
does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless whether the mad
destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of
liberty or democracy?
--Mahatma Gandhi
I hope... that
[hu]mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have
reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting
throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
--Benjamin Franklin
Nothing else will make you as happy or as
sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person
develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.
--Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons, The
Mothers Almanac [1975]
Let the entire game
happen on its own, springing up and falling back like waves and notice how
everything vanishes and reappears, magically, again and again, time without
end.
--Author Unknown
To be interested in
the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love
with spring.
--George Santayana
So long as one has
a longing to obtain any particular object, one cannot go further than that
object.
--Hazrat Inayat
Khan
Let there be peace
in the sky and in the atmosphere,
peace in the plant world and in the forests;
Let the cosmic
powers be peaceful;
Let Brahma be
peaceful;
Let there be
undiluted and fulfilling peace everywhere.
--Atharva Veda
In Indonesia the
words for "thank you" are "terima kasih," which, if you
--Tamalia
Alisjahbana
An adult is one who
had lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer
capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads
suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is
easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child.
--Arnaud Desjardins
If I have freedom in my life,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty.
--Richard Lovelace
Education either...
is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of
the present system and bring about conformity, or it becomes the practice of
freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with
reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
--Paulo Freire
If you hear a voice
within you say 'you cannot paint' then by all means paint, and that voice will
be silenced.
--Vincent Van Gogh
Though a man (sic)
go to battle a thousand times against a thousand men, if he conquers himself,
he is the greater conqueror.
--Gautama Buddha
When you blame
others, you give up your power to change.
--Author Unknown
There are no magic
answers, no miraculous methods to overcome the problems we face, just the
familiar ones: honest search for understanding, education, organization, action
that raises the cost of state violence for its perpetrators or that lays the
basis for institutional change—and the kind of commitment that will persist
despite the temptations of disillusionment, despite many failures and only
limited successes, inspired by the hope of a brighter future.
--Noam Chomsky
It is clear the future holds opportunities -
it also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to seize the opportunities, avoid the
pitfalls, and get back home by 6:00.
--Woody Allen
We have within us a limitless supply of new
beginnings.
--Joan Fitzgerald
There is nothing
that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
--Havelock Ellis
No one is so
foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their
fathers, fathers bury their sons.
--Croesus, King of
Lydia, in Herodotus' "The Persian Wars"
It isn't what you
don't know that hurts you, it's what you do know that isn't so.
--Mark Twain
Every new moment that arises in your life
can now be a point of choice. . .in which you can choose to treat yourself and
others with Compassion rather than Judgment.
--David Harp
All truth passes
through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed,
and third, it is accepted as self-evident.
--Arthur
Schopenhauer
Those who can make
you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
--Dorothy Bernard
As a child, I walked through the world with
wonder and awe. Each day started with a question and ended with a question. I
had the mind of a beginner.
--Anonymous
It is the mark of
an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle
Utilize, don't analyze.
-–AA motto
Nature is the Art of God.
--Sir Thomas Browne
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
--Carl Sandburg
Education is not
the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
--W.B. Yeats
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow
partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
The past, present and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in
the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. --Anais Nin
(1946), The Diary of Aunt Nin, Vol 4 (1973)
Laughter, by definition, is healthy. --Doris
Lessing
Often happiness calls
but we are too busy to answer. --Ellen H.
The natural flights of the human mind are
not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. --Samuel Johnson
No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
The creative thinker is flexible and
adaptable and prepared to rearrange his thinking.
--A.J. Cropley
There is guidance for each of us, and
by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always think of what you have to do
as easy and it will become so.
--Emile Corie
Patience is needed with everyone, but
first of all with ourselves.
--Saint Francis De Sales
Spirituality is the sacred center out
of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays, rainy Saturday
afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail… The spiritual journey is
the soul's life commingling with ordinary life. --Christina Baldwin, Life's Companion [1990]
Sobriety is a big gift box with a
hundred little packages inside to unwrap.
--Oscar Morris
When they take your smile away they
might just as well shoot you.
--Violet Hensley
Ideally, both members of a couple in
love free each other to new and different worlds.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We are all dependent on one another,
every soul of us on earth.
--George Bernard Shaw
To avoid pain at all costs forces us
to reject half the lessons life can teach.
--Jan Pishok
Music drives the devil away.
--Martin Luther
The liberating encounter with God/ess
is always an encounter with our authentic selves resurrected from underneath
the alienated self. It is not experienced against, but in and through
relationships, healing our broken relations with our bodies, with other people,
with nature.
--Rosemary Ruether
The old law of an eye for an eye
leaves everybody blind.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give us to go blithely on our
business this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and
undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
The process of living, for each of
us, is pretty similar. For every gain there is a setback. For every success, a
failure. For every moment of joy, a time of sadness. For every hope realized,
one is dashed.
--Sue Atchley Ebaugh
We need four hugs a day for survival.
We need eight hugs a day for maintenance.
We need twelve hugs a day for growth.
--Virginia Satir
All human failures are the result of
a lack of love.
--Alfred Adler
It takes courage to grow up and turn
out to be who you really are. --e e
cummings
Happiness is when what you think,
what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
–Mahatma Gandhi
The secret of success is constancy of
purpose.
--Benjamin Disraeli
Dare to be empty.
Dare to let go.
Dare to believe.
--Elisabeth L.
I have learned this: it is not what
one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
--Oscar Wilde
The distance doesn't matter; only the
first step is difficult.
--Mme. du Deffand
Whatever happens at all, happens as
it should.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Man, like the bridge, was designed to
carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
--William A. Ward
The beginning of wisdom is to call
things by their right names.
--Chinese Proverb
Hope smiles on the threshold of the
year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Some people walk in the rain. Others
just get wet.
--Roger Miller
May you live all the days of your
life.
--Jonathan Swift
I don’t want to get to the end of my
life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width
of it as well. –Diane Ackerman
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
--Edward Everett Hale
Be of love a little more careful than
of anything.
--e e cummings
We need to let the old go, so the new
can emerge.
--Peggy Bassett
The years teach us much, which the
days never knew.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what you will with another person;
But never put them out of your heart.
--The Dalai Lama
The process rather than the product
is primary in caring, for it is only in the present that I can attend to the
other.
--Milton Mayeroff
We cannot live
for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads,
and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us
as results. --Herman Melville
We make a living by what we get, but
we make a life by what we give.
--Winston Churchill
What we see depends mainly on what we
look for. –John Lubbock
Our main business is not to see what
lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. –Thomas Carlyle
The great use of life is to spend it
for something that will outlast it.
–William James
No matter what accomplishments you
make, somebody helped you. –Althea
Gibson
A man travels the world over in
search of what he needs and returns home to find it. –George Moore
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can
only be achieved by understanding.
–Albert Einstein
It’s the whole, not the detail, that
matters. –German proverb
Let him that would move the world
first move himself. –Socrates
The most beautiful adventures are not
those we go to seek. –Robert Louis
Stevenson
Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there
seemed to be no hope at all. –Dale
Carnegie
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the
foundations under them. –Henry David
Thoreau
The greatest good you can do for
another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. –Disraeli
Procrastination is like a credit
card: It’s a lot of fun until you get
the bill. --Christopher Parker
The life you have led doesn’t need to
be the only life you’ll have. –Anna
Quindlen
‘Tis better to be silent and be
thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. –Abraham Lincoln
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a
gift. That is why it is called the present.
–Eleanor Roosevelt
You don’t get harmony when everyone
sings the same note. –Doug Floyd
The most important trip you take in
life is meeting people half way. –Henry
Boyle
Perpetual optimism is a force
multiplier. –Colin Powell
A pessimist sees the difficulty in
every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. –Winston Churchill
Life is either a daring adventure or
nothing. –Helen Keller
It is good to act as if. It is even
better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
--Charles Holton
It is only with the heart that one
can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Having spent the better part of my
life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it
arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.
--Anonymous
When you do all the talking you only
learn what you already know.
--Anonymous
He who helps a friend in woe is like
a fur coat in the snow.
--Russian Proverb
All great reforms require one to dare
a lot to win a little.
--William L. O'Neill
People who fight fire with fire
usually end up with ashes.
--Abigail Van Buren
People have a set point of happiness
which explains why they return to a certain level of happiness even after
tragedy . . . It can be difficult, if you've had difficult parents, to feel
good about yourself . . . but you don't need to live out that script for the
rest of your life . . . you can change it. Those people who have a belief in
something greater than themselves are those who come back much faster from
sadness.
--Dr. Joyce Brothers
The Today Show, January 4, 2002
Nature is painting for us, day after
day, pictures of infinite beauty…if only we have the eyes to see them.—John
Ruskin
Follow your dream . . .
if you stumble, don't stop
and lose sight of your goal,
press on to the top.
For only on top
can we see the whole view . . .
--Amanda Bradley
When health is absent, wisdom cannot
reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes
useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.
--Herophilus
The past has flown away. The coming
month and year do not exist; ours only is the present's tiny point.
--Shabestari
God gave burdens, also shoulders.
--Yiddish proverb
Pray to God, but row to shore.
--Russian proverb
Don't worry if your job is small,
and your rewards are few.
Remember that the mighty oak,
Was once a nut like you.
--Anonymous
Don't waste your time hating a
failure.
--Clarissa Pickola Estes
There's only one corner of the
universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have
to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when
you've worked on your own corner.
--Aldous Huxley
So when you are listening to
somebody,
Completely, attentively, then you are
Listening not only to the words, but also
To the feeling of what is being conveyed,
To the whole of it, not part of it.
--J. Krishnamurti
The art of life is to show your hand.
--C.V. Lucas
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
--Henry Ford
Progress, Not Perfection.
--Alcoholics Anonymous slogan
God does not ask your ability
Or your inability.
He asks only your availability.
--Mary Kay Ash
The ego always attempts to buy out
the spirit.
--Anonymous
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to
sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and
potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my
crust in it. But alone it is not a diet to keep body and soul together.
--Bette Davis, The Lonely Life (1962)
This time, like all times, is a very
good one if we but know what to do with it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life can only be understood
backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
--Soren Kierkegaard
. . . there is as much dignity in
tilling a field as in writing a poem.
--Booker T. Washington
Love, and love alone, is capable of
giving thee a happier life.
--Ludwig van Beethoven
People have a need to feel their
pain.
Very often pain is the beginning of a great deal of awareness. As an
energy, it awakens consciousness.
--Arnold Mindell
Yes, I made up my mind. . .
Today I do have a choice,
And I like the idea of
Being a smiling Goddess.
--Betty MacDonald
Knowing when to say No and when to
say Yes is the beginning of true wisdom.
--Ralph T. Rupert
It's not enough to talk to plants,
you also have to listen. --David Bergman
As a child, I walked through the
world with wonder and awe. Each day started with a question and ended with a
question. I had the mind of a beginner.
--Anonymous
You want me to succeed so much.
Could you understand if I failed? ...
Could you love me if I failed?
--Sister Mary Paul
I can find no serenity until I accept
that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed
to be at this moment.
--Alcoholics Anonymous (The AA Big Book)
I like not only to be loved, but also
to be told that I am loved . . . the realm of silence is large enough beyond
the grave.
--George Eliot
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
--William Shakespeare
Forewarned, forearmed; being prepared
is half the victory.
--Miguel de Cervantes
Healing can occur when I see my
family of origin as just a vessel to bring me into new spiritual growth, rather
than as the predictor of all my life's work.
--Judi Hollis
This instant is the only time there
is.
--Gerald Jampolsky
Chance everywhere has power.
--Ovid
When you’re not blonde and thin, you
come up with a personality real quick.
--Kathy Najimy
Addiction is answering the spiritual
calling inside us by going to the wrong address.
--Chris Ringer
Anyone can get sober . . .
The trick is to stay and to live sober.
--Living Sober
One moment of a person’s life is a
fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of all fiction.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the most beautiful
compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another
without also helping himself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a lesson to be learned in
every painful experience.
--Mary Timberlake
The way to love anything is to
realize it may be lost.
--G. K. Chesterton
Roman philosopher Seneca said
hundreds of years ago: The great blessings of mankind are within us and within
our reach.
Attachment is the great fabricator of
illusion; reality can be attained by someone who is detached.
--Simone Weil
Tennyson once said, "There is more
faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the Creeds."
Even if you understand and follow all
of the rules for more effectively engaging manipulators, life with them is not
likely to be easy.
--George K. Simon Jr.
For is it not true that human
progress is but a mighty growing pattern woven together by the tenuous single
threads united in a common effort?
--Soong Mei-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek)
If your life is ever going to get
better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without
taking chances.
--David Viscott
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