BUDDHA

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

St PAUL

I know what it is to be in need. I know what it is to have plenty.
I have learned the secret of being content in every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

Rabbi HAROLD KUSHNER

You don't have to be religious to have a soul - everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul - I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

MARIE CURIE

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

DAWNA MARKOVA

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

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.

FRANK CRANE

The golden rule is of no use to you whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

The DALAI LAMA

Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries.
Without them humanity cannot survive.

PEMA CHODRON

The Three Noble Principles -
Good in the Beginning
Good in the Middle
Good at the End

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which would be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They gave him those words - And this, too, shall pass away.

ANON

Where there is great doubt there will be great awakening, small doubt small awakening, no doubt no awakening.

JOHANN WOLFGANG von GOETHE

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

MERLE SHAIN

It is better to light candles than to curse the darkness.
It is better to plant seeds than to accuse the earth.
The world needs all of our power and love and energy, and each of us has something that we can give. The trick is to find it and use it, to find it and give it away.
So there will always be more. We can be lights for each other, and through each other’s illumination we will see the way.
Each of us is a seed, a silent promise, and it is always spring.

BUDDHA

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love, and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

HARVEY FIERSTEIN

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself.

RUDYARD KIPLING

I keep six honest serving men, They taught me all I knew,
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.

THICH NHAT HANH

When you grow a tree, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the tree.
You look into the reasons it is not doing well.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

OSHO

Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are not serious, these birds are not serious.
The rivers and the oceans are wild.
Everywhere there is fun.
Everywhere there is joy and delight.
Watch existence.
Listen to the existence and become part of it.

MUSO KOKUSHI

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

EMILY DICKINSON

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

JOHN RUSKIN

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. There is really no such thing as bad weather - only different kinds of good weather.

ANON

When you reach the top of the mountain, keep climbing.

J.B. PRIESTLEY

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own - this is happiness.

BUDDHA

Teach this triple truth to all -
a generous heart, kind speech and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

A human being is a part of the whole that we call the 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 illusion of his consciousness. This illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature.

Nicaraguan Proverb

Eyes that see don't grow old.

PIET HEIN

If you knew what you will know when your candle has burnt low, it would greatly ease your plight while your candle still burns bright.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.