“When a person has found something that he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.”
- G. K. Chesterton“All things share the same breath: the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.”
- Chief Seattle"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery“May what I do flow through me like a river… no forcing, and no holding back.”
- Rilke“You need Power, only when you want to do something Harmful, Otherwise, Love is Enough to get everything done.”
- Charlie Chaplin“The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks, and observes.”
- Bruce Lee"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."
- Gautama Buddha“To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the cafe of the unknown.”
- Robert Bly“You were made and set here to give voice to this… your own astonishment.”
- Annie Dillard"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
- Alice Walker"Unable to discern the form of You, I see Your presence all around. Filling my eyes with the love of You, my heart is humbled, for You are everywhere.”
- Hakim Sanai“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.”
- St. Francis of Assisi.“It is our choices… that show us who we are, far more than our abilities.”
- J.K. Rowling“Life… isn’t everything. Isn’t everything. Isn’t everything… Life?”
- Elton John“From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.”
- Pope Francis“Humility is joy, not in thinking less of yourself, but think of yourself less.”
- C. S. Lewis“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are Anger and Courage; Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.”
- St. Augustine“When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.”
- Dalai Lama“The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.”
- St. Augustine“I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am. ”
― Thomas Cooley"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
- Helen Keller"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."
- Teilhard de Chardin"Into this happy night. In secret, seen by none, nor saw I aught. Without other light or guide, save that which in my heart did burn."
- St. John of the Cross"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
- Lao Tzu"The real question is weather the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it had been here for a long time already, and only our blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it."
- Vaclav Havel"Just be what you are, and speak from your heart and guts - it's all a man really ever has."
- Hubert Humphrey"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
- Soren Kierkegaard"We are puppets with perception, with awareness. Sometimes we can see the strings. And perhaps our awareness is the first step in our liberation."
- Stanley Milgram"Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
- Jesus of Nazareth“A ‘no’ uttered from deepest conviction is better than a ‘yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
- Mahatma Gandhi“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
- Confucius“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
- John Stuart Mill"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
- Bertrand Russell“The great discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
- William James”Keep your face always towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."
- Walt Whitman“These same questions that disturb and puzzle us have in turn occurred to all wise men, not one has been omitted and each has to answer them according to his ability, by his words and life."
- Henry David Thoreau"If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world."
- Noam Chomsky"We are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance - and changes us, even if we do not reach it..."
- Rainer Maria RilkeThe prince asks, “To tame something: what does that mean?” The fox teaches him, “It means to form bonds. If you tame me, we’ll need each other. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci“Every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.”
― Gregory David Roberts (Shantaram)“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
- Ambrose Redmoon“The tragedy of life is not in failing to reach your goal, but in having no goal to reach.”
- Anonymous“Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.”
- Elbert Hubbard"Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers."
~ Bernard Haisch"All Mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
- Benjamin Franklin"Although we often have little choice as to what happens to us - we surely have some choice as to what happens in us."
- Evelyn Underhill“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
- Nelson Mandela“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.”
– John C. Lilly"To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion."
- Richard Rohr"The poorest of these are those who are ignored, unloved, and uncared for."
- Mother Theresa"Revolution can not be defeated... it always reappears."
- Victor Hugo / Les Miserables"I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view."
- Madeleine L'Engle / A Wrinkle in Time"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."
- Viktor Frankl"All men have stars. For some, the stars are guides. For others, they are not more than lights in the sky."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry“The highest goal would be to view science from the viewpoint of the artist and art from the viewpoint of life.”
- Scharmer / Nietzsche"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."
- Henry David Thoreau“Your worth consists in what you are… and not in what you have.”
- Thomas Edison“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke"In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.”
- BuddhaINSPIRATION: "Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life."
- Rachel CarsonINSPIRATION: "Great ideas come in to the world as gently as doves... if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope."
- Albert CamusINSPIRATION: "There is a tide in the affairs of men... which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."
- William Shakespheare (Julius Caeser)INSPIRATION: "Love is not a victory march, its a cold and its a broken hallelujah..."
- Lenard Cohen
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