From my obscurity came forth a light and illumined my path
-Kahlil Gibran
If you want to know the past, look at your present
life. If you want to know the future, look at your present. - Buddha
We can easily forgive a child
who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when
men are afraid of the light. – Plato
Gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the
furnace of adversity.
Ecclesiasticus. Chapter 2.
The first and highest law must be the love of man
to man. Homo homini Deus est- this is the supreme maxim, this the turning
point of the world's history. Ludwig
Feuerbach
For it is not all of life to
live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one,
and only those who will consider
the experience as one,
may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means. –Edgar
Cayce reading
If there be righteousness in the heart, there will
be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation.
When there is order in each nation there will be peace in the world.
Old Chinese Proverb
Courage is the ability to keep going, over and over
again when tragedy strikes;
And still help others when you are hurting within. – Anon
We need the tonic of wilderness...we can never have
enough of nature. - Henry David Thoreau
To open the individual path inward is the most exalted
of human endeavors .. - James Perkins
Great souls are they who see
that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts
rule the world. – Emerson
As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease. Gibran
Of life's two chief prizes,
beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the
second in a labourer's hand. – Gibran
As between the soul and the body there is a bond,
so are the body and its environment linked together. Gibran
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion;
and he who embraces one has no religion. Gibran
You yourself, as much as anybody
in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha
That best portion of a good man's life: his little,
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. - William Wordsworth
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute
of the strong. - Gandhi
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their
echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa
Ours souls traverses spaces in Life, which are not
measurable by Time, that invention of man. Gibran
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the
reach of proof. Gibran
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines
a good deed in a weary world. - Shakespeare
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include
all living things, man will not himself find peace. - Schweitzer
The best way to know God is to love many things. -
Vincent Van Gogh
Lift the stone and you will find me, cleave the wood
and I am there. - Jesus
The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes
but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing
I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those
who have sought and found how to
serve. - Schweitzer
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself
in the service of others. - Gandhi
Intense love does not measure; it just gives. - Mother
Teresa
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience
them. - Kahlil Gibran
There are two ways of spreading light - to be the
candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton
The important thing is to be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for what we could be. - Charles DuBois
An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.
- Gandhi
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. - Abraham
Lincoln
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer
him with love. - Gandhi
A pessimist is one who makes
difficulties of his opportunities, and an optimist is one who
makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry Truman
We don't see things as they are. We see them as we
are. - Talmud
Whatever you can do, or dream
you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic
in it." - Goethe
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; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. - Lactantius
When we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from
our own fear, our presence automatically
liberates others. - Marianne Williamson
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Gandhi
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice
to hoard them! - Emily Dickinson
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain
cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair,
against our will, comes wisdom
to us by the awful grace of God. From the Agamemnon of Aeschylus
The long days store up many things nearer to grief
than joy.
Death at the last, the deliverer
Not to be born is past all prizing best.
Next best by far when one has seen the light
Is to go thither swiftly when he came. –Oedipus Tyrannous of
Spools
The hour of departure has arrived
and we go our ways; I to die and you to live. Which is better?
Only God knows. Fear not death,
for it’s our destiny. – Socrates
A friend is a present you give yourself;
Hold a true friend with both hands;
In choosing a friend you go up a step. -Unknown
All that is not given with love is lost- Indian proverb
A man with outward courage dares to die.
A man with inward courage dares to live. Lao- Tzu
Your work is to discover your work and then, with
all you heart, to give yourself to it. -
Lord Buddha
Love truth, but pardon error. - Voltaire
It is perfectly possible to be Godlike, even though
unrecognised as such. Remember that the needs of a happy life are few.
Mastery of dialectics or physics may
elude you. But that is no reason to despair of achieving freedom, self-respect,
unselfishness and obedience to the Will of God. - Marcus Aurelius
Observe constantly that all things take place by nature,
and accustom thyself to consider that
the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change things which
are, and to make new, things like them. For everything that exists is,
in a manner,
the seed of that which will be. - Marcus Aurelius
Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it
is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon that which is unpardonable,
or it is no virtue at all. -G.K.
Chesterton
Men at some time are Masters of their own Fates; the
fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves. That we are
underlings. - From Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare)
Many people are ensnared by what we term ties of relationship.
It is well for us to remember that our true relatives are not necessarily
those who are connected
by ties of blood. Our truest relatives are those who are nearest akin to us
in mind, soul, and spirit. Our nearest relatives may be those we have
not seen,
but to whom we will be drawn, either in this form of life or another, through
that ever working and never failing law of attraction.
Extract from In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine
The deeper we get into reality the more numerous will
be the questions we cannot answer. -
Von Hugel
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin
again today- Lord Buddha.
Live every act fully, as if it were your last. -Lord
Buddha
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.
That word is love. -Sophocles
He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself
is enlightened. -Lao Tzu
So of cheerfulness or a good temper- the more it is
spent, the more it remains. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They can because they think they can. - Virgil
Dost thou love Life? Then do not squander Time.
for that's the stuff Life is made of! - Benjamin Franklin
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. - John Heywood
Let us so live, that when we die, even the undertaker
will be sorry. - Mark Twain
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall be
in doubt, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end
in certainties. - Francis Bacon
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in
the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today
than he was yesterday. -Alexander Pope
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps
it is because he hears a different drummer: Let him step to the music
he hears, however measured or
far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be Wise, Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise.
-Philip Massinger
Personality is the supreme realisation of the innate
idiosyncrasy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in
the face of life, the absolute affirmation
of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the
universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom
for self-determination. - Carl Jung
Death is psychologically as important as birth...Shrinking
away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second
half of life of its purpose. -Carl
Jung
Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.
(Unknown)
There is only one solution if old age is not to be
an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends
that give our existence meaning-devotion
to individuals, to groups, or causes, social, political, intellectual or creative
work. One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others,
by means of friendship, love, indignation and compassion. - Simone de Beauvoir
Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never
be hurt,
Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth. -William
Purkey
People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle
and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their
true beauty is revealed only if there
is light within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
God has placed in each soul
an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek
life from without, unaware that
it is within them. – Kahlil Gibran
Oratory is the cunning of the
tongue over the ear, but eloquence is the joining of the heart with
the soul- Kahlil Gibran
As between the soul and the body there is a bond,
so are the body and its environment linked together- Kahlil Gibran
The tests of life are not to break you, but to
make you.- Author unknown
It isn’t all-important
what the condition of your body is; the important factor is
the condition of your mind and soul. –Author unknown
The attitude
you take toward problems and difficulties is far and away the most
important factor in controlling and mastering
them. – Author unknown
