Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Buddha
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“The only journey, is the journey within.”
Radhanath Swami
“Journey within; there you will find all peace, all joy, all love.”
Osho
“Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.”
Stephen Hawking
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
Carl Jung
“Where your fear is, there is your task.”
Chinese proverb
“If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.”
Winston Churchill
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
Mahatma Gandhi
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Ram Dass
“Total honesty with ourselves, total honesty. If we make a mistake, admit it and get on with it. Don't cover errors. The whole spiritual journey is a continuing act of falling on our faces. And we get up, brush ourselves off and get on with it. If we were perfect, we wouldn't even go on a journey. We can't be afraid of making errors.”
Kevin Crenshaw
“Remember that people can only love, to the level of their own self-love. They can only communicate to their own level of self-awareness. And behave to their level of healed trauma.”
Paulo Coelho
“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”
Albert Einstein
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Ram Dass
“The sooner one develops compassion on this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.”
Osho
“You are a guest. Leave this earth a little more beautiful, a little more human, a little more lovable, a little more fragrant.”
Rumi
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Michael A. Singer
"Everything will be okay, as soon as you are okay with everything."
Buddha
“In the end, only three things matter; how much you loved; how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”
Rumi
“Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything.”
Derek Rydall
“Get still inside and you'll see your whole life experience as an elaborate story you've woven, and the Real You is just enjoying the show.”
Aristotle
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Oscar Wilde
“I have also learnt sympathy with suffering. To me, suffering seems now a sacramental thing, that makes those whom it touches holy.”
Rumi
“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
Unknown
“Life is measured by volume - length, breadth and depth.” Length is your age - your years on the planet, breadth is your variety of experiences, and depth is how deep you go into those experiences.”
Michael A. Singer
“There is nothing more important to true growth than realising that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it.”
Eckhart Tolle
“The thinking mind is a useful and powerful tool, but it is also very limiting when it takes over your life completely when you don’t realize it is only a small aspect of the consciousness you are.”
Dalai Lama
“The paradox of our age - We have bigger houses, but smaller families. More conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees, but less sense. More knowledge, but less judgement. More experts, but more problems. More medicines, but less healthiness.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but we have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour. We built more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication. We have become long on quantity, but short on quality. These are times of fast food but slow digestion. Tall man but short character. Steep profits but shallow relationships. It is a time when there is much in the window, but nothing in the room.”
Albert Einstein
“We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.”
Plato
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding.
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
Rumi
“When you feel a peaceful joy, that is when you are near truth.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”
Maya Angelou
“Nothing will work, unless you do.”
Howard B. Lee
“The most important work you will ever do will be within the walls of your own home.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Just as a lotus flower is made of many molecules, and all the molecules come together in harmony to produce beautiful leaves and flowers, so, too, can a community bring together all the particular individuals to bring about a universal whole. If you want to produce a society that is peaceful, happy and compassionate, you have to visualize the universal community. You learn to go as a river. If you can do that, you will change the world.”
Albus Dumbledore
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
Oscar Wilde
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that’s all.”
Jeremy Narby
“We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.”
Pablo Picasso
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Sigmund Freud
“In the small matters, trust the mind, in the large ones, trust the heart.”
Seneca
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Alan Watts
“The art of meditation is a way of getting in touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilised people are out of touch with reality.”
Lao Tzu
“Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
Andy Warhol
“I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could every want.”
Socrates
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Claude Monet
“What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.”
Maya Angelou
“We are here to love each other. That’s why you are alive. That is what life is for.”
Martin Luther King Jr
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun.”
Eckhart Tolle
“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
“The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.”
Rumi
“If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.”
Alan Watts
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
Albert Einstein
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.”
Socrates
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Rupi Kaur
“Most importantly love, like it’s the only thing you know how. At the end of the day, alls this means nothing. This page, where' you’re sitting, your degree, your job, the money, nothing even matters, except love and human connection. Who you loved and you deeply you loved them. How you touched the people around you and how much you gave them.”
Rumi
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Many people have the desire to let go, but they're not able to do so because they don't yet have enough insight; they haven't seen other alternatives, other doorways to peace and happiness. Fear is an element that prevents us from letting go. We're fearful that if we let go we'll have nothing else to cling to. Letting go is a practice; it's an art. One day, when you're strong enough and determined enough, you'll let go of the afflictions that make you suffer.”
Marcus Aurelius
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Dalai Lama
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
Osho
“What is, is good. Nothing will happen either by dropping things and escaping from them or by clinging to them. Remain where you are, but begin the search within.”
Alan Watts
“For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it - as if it were quite other than himself - and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts-based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.”
Zanna Keithley
“The greatest gift you can offer the world is your truest, most authentic self. You were created exactly as you are because who you are is who this world needs. It's your kindness. Your humor. Your passion. Your originality. It's the fire that burns inside you. It's your fierce courage and irrepressible spirit. It's the way you love with your whole entire being- fully, unapologetically, no holding back. It's your unique presence. Your divine signature. It's the way your smile can change a person's entire day. How your heart pours out love without expectations or conditions. It's the wisdom that lives inside you. Your voice. Your words. Your ideas. Your unique way of seeing the world. You're an original. Unmatched. Incomparable. Second to none. Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and step into your truest self. Be who you are. Offer what only you can give. You will never be too much or not enough for the people worthy of experiencing the fullest expression of you.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Both intellect and heart can see and understand. Yet the heart can go farther than the intellect, because of its greater intuition.”
Lao Tzu
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
Blaise Pascal
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Krishnamurti
“You give years and years to study, and you don’t give one day or even one hour to find out for yourself what you are and why you are living like this.”
Paulo Coelho
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
Sigmund Freud
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
Bell Hooks
“No one is healed in isolation.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“We don’t have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the clear water of our heart.”
Krishnamurti
“Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something - and it is only such love that can know freedom.”
Michaela Coel
“Do not be afraid to disappear - from it, from us, for a while. And see what comes to you in the silence.”
Toni Cade Bambara
“Silence. Stillness. To give her soul a chance to attend to its own affairs at its own level.”
Amoda Maa
“Peace starts when we stop the war inside. And this means radically uprooting all false self-concepts that keep us imprisoned in the illusion of separation, and discovering the luminous truth of that which is unendingly whole and free.”
Cole Arthur Riley
“Do not come enamored with toxic individualism. Self-reliance alone won’t save us; mutuality is our path. Both our pain and our liberation are entwined. We don’t get free alone.”
Carlos Santana
“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
George R.R. Martin
“I have lived a thousand lives and I have loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.”
Carl Jung
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
Marcus Aurelius
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive, to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
Lawrence Krauss
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust.”
Dag Hammarskjöld
“The longest journey of any person is the journey inward.”
Paulo Coelho
“What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
Ian Somerhalder
“The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment, ultimately you do to yourself.”
Rumi
“Do not feel lonely. The entire universe is within you.”
Jimi Hendrix
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Osho
“And that is the essence of wisdom to be in harmony with nature, with the natural rhythm of the universe. And whenever you are in harmony with the natural rhythm of the universe, you are a poet, you are a painter, you are a musician, you are a dancer.”
Rumi
“If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.”
Jim Morrison
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
Andrew Bennett
“The longest journey you will ever take is the 18 inches from your head to your heart.”
Carl Sagan
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only though love.”
Confucius
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot”.
Rainer Maria Rilke
"Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows."
Mahatma Gandhi
“Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.”
Hafiz
“Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut you more deep. Let it ferment and season you as few humans and even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so soft, my voice so tender, my need for God absolutely clear.”
Carl Jung
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
“The first key to creating heaven on earth is to accept yourself just the way you are right now.”
Osho
“The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.”
Charles de Lint
"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic - the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like: the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity: the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.”
Akif Kichloo
“Some days are for falling in love with people, some days for cities and some days for your time in solitude.”
Mark Oliver Everett
“Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.”
Anaïs Nin
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
Maya Angelou
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, But people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Andy Stanley
“Kindness is loaning someone your strength, instead of reminding them of their weakness.”
Christopher Hitchens
“Take the risk of thinking for yourself - much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a special heart that listens.”
Erma Bombeck
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'”
Paulo Coelho
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal.”
Emily McDowell
“Finding yourself is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. “Finding yourself” is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering, who you were before the world got its hands on you.”
Confucius
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Rupi Kaur
“It was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself, I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
Zoe Skylar
“For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse. So collapse. Crumble. This is not your destruction. This is your birth.”
Rumi
“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.”
Carl Jung
“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.”
Eckhart Tolle
“You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.”
C. S. Lewis
“You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
Albert Einstein
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”
Dalai Lama
“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.”
Mary Oliver
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
Charles Bukowski
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
Matt Kahn
“Every time your heart is loved, a part of the world is healed. Every time you honor another - a part of you is set free. This is the way of oneness.”
Swami Premananda
“Practice love until you remember that you are love.”
Carl Jung
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."
Remez Sasson
“Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave.”
Osho
“The way of the heart is the way of courage. It is to live in insecurity; It is to live in love, and trust; It is to move in the unknown.”
Ernest Hemingway
“We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.”
Andy Warhol
“I can never get over when you’re on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”
Brené Brown
“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
Osho
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”
Thích Nhât Hanh
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
James Baldwin
“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“If we are to teach real peace in this world...we shall have to begin with the children.”
Richard Rudd
“Sometimes people mistake poetry for the ability to write poems. Whereas for me poetry is about living poetically. So even if you have never written a poem you might be one of the most poetic people because of the way you are living. It is more of a way of life and a poem is a symbol, it's about distilling beauty and truth into a small space. If you can do that, you have a heart of a poet.”
James McCrae
“The most radical act in a world that is sleeping and numb is to wake up and feel.”
Vincent van Gogh
“The way to know life is to love many things.”
Anaïs Nin
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Osho
“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
Carl Jung
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
Simone Weil
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
James Baldwin
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance - is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.”
Alexander Den Heijer
“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
Eckhart Tolle
“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no long the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
Charles Bukowski
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
Rumi
“Don’t run away from grief, o 'soul. Look for the remedy inside the pain, because the rose came from the thorn and the ruby came from a stone.”
Nisargadatta
“Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.”
Eckhart Tolle
“If you suddenly feel very light, clear, and deeply at peace, that is an unmistakable sign that you have truly surrendered.”
Plato
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
Thích Nhât Hanh
“Time is more than money, time is life.”
Osho
“Life cannot grow without challenges; and pains, miseries, sufferings bring challenges. You cannot become aware without suffering. Suffering evokes awareness in you.”
Mark Twain
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.”
Thích Nhât Hanh
“Don't throw away your suffering. Touch your suffering. Face it directly, and your joy will become deeper.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
“Go inside and listen to your body because your body will never lie to you. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.”
Osho
“Love is the goal, life is the journey.”
Arthur E Smith
“Metamorphosis is the naturally occurring consequence of paying attention.”
Carl Jung
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
Albert Einstein
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
Eckhart Tolle
“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. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.”
Osho
“Live that which is the only possibility: the present. People are wandering everywhere - in the past, in the future, in memories, in dreams - just missing this small point that this present is the only life you have got. You cannot live your past, it is no more. You cannot live your future, it is not yet. In fact, past and future are divisions of the mind. Time only knows one tense and that is the present. It is always present. Time knows only one place, and that is here.”
Eckhart Tolle
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
Émile Zola
“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
Don Miguel Ruiz
“Let everything we do and say be an expression of the beauty in our heart, always based on love.”
Eckhart Tolle
“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.”
Paulo Coelho
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal.”
Paul Sweeney
“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Never force your body or your mind. Be kind to yourself. Live your daily life simply, with awareness. If you are mindful, you have everything; you are everything.”
Osho
“Get out of your head and into your heart. Think less, feel more.”
Rumi
“Don’t move the way fear makes you move, move the way love makes you move.”
Paulo Coelho
“I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.”
Osho
“Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.”
Brianna Wiest
“The light does not choose who to shine upon it beams, it radiates, it spreads to every open space all of the grass on the entire earth does not have to compete for the rays of sun that nourish it there is enough for every blade all the billions of them and that is the lesson.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.”
Jenna Zoë
“Sit with Loneliness: She is here to show you that you long for connection. Sit with Boredom: She is here because you desire a Fuller life. Sit with Anger: She tells you when you feel wronged. If you're ever in a place where you're wanting Divine Guidance and wondering where it is, remember: these are the messengers.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.”
John Greenleaf Whittier
“When things go wrong, as they sometimes will; When the road you're trudging seems all uphill; When the funds are low and the debts are high; And you want to smile but you have to sigh. When all is pressing you down a bit - Rest if you must, but don't you quit Success is failure turned inside out; The silver tint on the clouds of doubt; And you can never tell how close you are; It may be near when it seems far. So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit - It's when things go wrong that you must not quit.”
Mary Oliver