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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.
Philo of Alexandria
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
The solution to the problems of the day is awakening the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
May I hold myself in compassion.
May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.
Buddha
Who looks outside, dreams,
Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
Behind everyone’s learned behaviors and odd eccentricities lurks a soul, ready to make contact if only coaxed out through a crack in the ego.
Ram Dass
And the time came when the risk to remain in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.
Hafiz
By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
Third, by experience, which is bitterest.
Confucius
The soul comes to earth to learn lessons, not to get married or stay married, or take this job or that job. Don’t ask the wrong question. The question is: What lesson does my soul want to learn.
Anon.
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
Ranier Maria Rilke
It is easier to tell the truth. You don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved.
The Dalai Lama
The best of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.
Victor Frankl
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung
We die and are reborn every time we confront change.
Anon.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light,
and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.
Mahatma Gandhi
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
Be yourself, no base imitator of another, but your best self.
There is something which you can do better than another.
Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not take lightly small good deeds, believing they can hardly help. For drops of water, one by one, in time can fill a giant pot.
Patrul Rinpoche
We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
Tao Te ching
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become your character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Lao-Tse
What the superior man seeks is in himself;
What the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go.
Abraham Lincoln
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. We think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within.
Albert Schweitzer
If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop—everything.
Pema Chodron
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest fortune one can have is to be able to help his fellow man… and coming close to it is to attain peace and serenity.
C.P. Robertson
A friend is someone to whom one may pour out all the contents of one’s heart—chaff and grain together—knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Persian quote
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
Robert Southey
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
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