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You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you.
-- Paramahansa Yogananada |
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving...and that's your own self.
-- Aldous Huxley |
When the outlook is poor, try the uplook.
-- Unknown |
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
-- Marcus Aurelius |
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
-- Erich Fromm |
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgement, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
-- Walter Kaufmann |
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
-- Albert Schweitzer |
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde |
We are all one but every individual is unique.
-- Shari Arison, Essence Of Life Heart Value |
The moment one definitely commits oneself, providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would have not otherwise have occurred
-- W. H. Murray |
Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence. Another word for it is Presence: consciousness without thought.
-- Eckhart Tolle |
To feel renewed, take a spiritual holiday. You don't have to go anywhere except inside yourself, away from the obvious.
-- Dadi Janki |
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
-- Josiah Holland |
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford |
I ask not for a lighter burden, but broader shoulders
-- Jewish Proverb |
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
-- Albert Shweitzer |
happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
-- Democritus |
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
-- Anoymous |
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are
-- e.e. cummings |
Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
-- African Proverb |
A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn.
-- Anoymous |
When we come to know our inner God, which is our true Self, we will know that the divine is in everybody.
-- Howard Murphet |
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinion of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
-- A.H. Almaas |
We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
-- J Ramsay MacDonald |
True love can bear separation.
-- Paulo Coelho |
If you're going through hell, keep going!
-- Winston Churchill |
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
-- John Aughey |
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.
-- Anoymous |
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
-- Mary Engelbreit |
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-- Kathleen Casey |
Keep your face to sun and you will never see the shadows.
-- Helen Keller |
There comes a moment in time in everybody's life when they can make everything wrong, right.
-- Dr Phil |
We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time we took risks to secure peace?
-- Dwight Eisenhower |
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self respect springs.
-- Joan Didion |
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without gettting a few drops on yourself.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Ultimately the best use of a physician's knowledge is to teach people how to heal themselves.
-- David Simon, M.D. |
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
-- John Muir |
In every moment of our existence we are in that field of possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
-- Deepak Chopra, M.D. |
Make me One with everything
-- Zenmaster to Hot Dog Vendor |
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
-- Benjamin Franklin |
A person can stand alot as long as he can stand himself.
-- Axel Munthe |
Sometimes a smile can help someone achieve in a second what would otherwise take a great deal of time.
-- Dadi Janki |
What you resist persists; what you feel, you can heal.
-- From Deepak Chopra's Peace Is The Way |
Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners.
-- Laurence Sterne |
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
-- Axel Munthe |
To believe that violence is more powerful than love, this is the same as saying that death is more powerful than life.
-- Deepak Chopra |
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo is not working.
-- Oprah Winfrey |
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-- Marcel Proust |
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
-- Anne Morrow Lindberg |
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear.
-- Simeon Ben Eleazer |
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower |
The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war.
-- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit |
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi |
We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power.
-- William Gladstone |
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
-- Dr Seuss |
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
-- William James |
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
-- Oscar Wilde |
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
-- Richard Bach |
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
-- John Mason |
If God had wanted me otherwise, he would have created me otherwise.
-- Johann Von Goethe |
If you cannot be a poet. be the poem.
-- David Carradine |
True spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
-- M. Scott Peck |
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
-- Lao Tzu |
It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.
-- Oprah |
All art, all education can be merely a supplement to nature.
-- Aristotle |
Peace begins with a smile
-- Mother Teresa |
Make no judgements where you have no compassion
-- Dale Carnegie |
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy...if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive...
-- Eleonora Duse |
The purpose of life is a life of purpose
-- Robert Bryne |
...Love is needed to become a flower. A flower means the tree is opening up its heart, releasing its perfume, giving its soul, pouring its being into existence.
-- From Osho Transformation Tarot |
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
-- Nelson Henderson |
Don't struggle against the current. Find your flow and let the current carry you.
-- Oprah Winfrey |
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
-- Josiah Holland |
People are lonely when they build walls instead of bridges
-- Anoymous |
A rich person is not someone who has alot but someone who needs only a little.
-- Anoymous |
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you.
-- Paramahansa Yogananda |
There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.
-- Inayat Khan |
If you are seeking closeness to the Beloved, love everyone.
-- Sheikh Abu-Said Abil-Khair |
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows.
-- Nisargadatta Maharaj |
He suffers more than is necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
-- Seneca |
Before you ask God for what you want, first thank God for what you have.
-- The Talmud |
Rest and Be Thankful.
-- William Wordsworth |
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
-- Cherokee Expression |
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
-- Thomas A Kempis |
A sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
-- Lawrence Durrell |
Get out of your mind and into your life.
-- Steven Hayes |
The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.
-- Zen Saying |
What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
-- W.H. Davies |
One who is at peace can draw good from everything.
-- Gerhard Groote |
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgivenesse, or else forgiving another.
-- Jean Paul Richter |
All relationships are a reflection of our relationship to ourselves.
-- Deepak Chopra |
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
-- Theodore N Vail |
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
-- Benjamin Disraeli |
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, because there's a million ways to be...
-- Cat Stevens |
Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.
-- Jesse Jackson |
The Wise don't strive To arrive.
-- Anoymous |
The Inner Light is beyond praise and blame. Like space, it knows no boundaries.
-- Zen Saying |
Gaze at the stars but walk on the earth.
-- Zen Quote |
Finding your dharma, or true path, depends on having a feel for your own destiny, so that you know it when you see it.
-- Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D. and Cameron Stauth |
The trick of life is not to be in the know but in the mystery.
-- Quote from 'What The Bleep Do We Know?' |
True spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of love
-- M Scott Peck |
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible
-- Helen Keller |
There is a mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most - happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else.
-- Peyton Conway March |
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
-- Abraham Lincoln |
Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
-- Buddha |
Adventure is not outside a man. It is within.
-- David Grayson |
In our life there is a single color which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
-- Marc Chagall |
Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed were not following anything but the expression of their direct contact with the actuality of life.
-- Steven Harrison |
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
-- Martin Luther King Jr |
Lose yourself...then you will see your own light, as radiant as the full moon.
-- Rumi |
We must be the change we want to create.
-- Mahatma Gandhi |
Who is wise? He who learns from all men.
-- Talmud |
You got to go there to know there.
-- Zora Hurston |
When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
-- Lao Tzu |
Meditation opens your heart.
-- Swami Rama |
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyse you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon |
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach |
Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
-- Anonymous |
A mind without agitation is meditation.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.
-- Buddha |
Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
-- T. S. Eliot |
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
-- James Bryant Conant |
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
-- Thomas A Kempis |
To slight a single human being is to slight those divine powers and thus harm not only that being but with him the whole world.
-- Mahatma Gandhi |
Who is wise? He who learns from all men.
-- Talmud |
within yourself is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
-- Hermann Hesse |
Do not seek the truth. Only cease to cherish opinions.
-- Zen Saying |
Your way is very good for you, but not for me. My way is good for me, but not for you
-- Swami Vivekananda |
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet
-- James Oppenheim |
| Bravery is not a lack of fear. It's proceeding in spite of it. |
Truth has no path, and that is the beauty of truth, it is living
-- Krishnamurti |
When a man possesses in his being the notion of God, that is the miracle of miracles.
-- Rabindranath Tagore |
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is more real.
-- Deepak Chopra |
Whatsoever you do, do it with deep alertness; then even small things become sacred.
-- From Osho Transformation Tarot |
Nothing is worth more than this day.
-- Johann Von Goethe |
Light and darkness create an opposition,yet depend on each other just as the step taken by the right leg depends on the step taken by the left.
-- Sekito |
Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
-- T.S. Eliot |
Vision is the art of seeing something, invisible to others.
-- Johnathan Swift |
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood but of respect and joy in each other's life.
-- Richard Bach |
As human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world...as in being able to remake ourselves.
-- Mahatma Gandhi |
Stillness is the language God speaks and everything else is a bad translation.
-- Eckhart Tolle |
Courage is grace under pressure
-- Ernest Hemingway |
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
-- Johann Von Goethe |
I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure - try to please everybody.
-- Herbert Bayard Swope |
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese |
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
-- Thomas Huxley |
Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.
-- Eckhart Tolle |
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
-- Norman Vincent Peale |
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
-- William Shakespeare |
Know that you are paret of the controlling influence of the universe.
-- Edgar Cayce |
The Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity, From discord find harmony and In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein |
Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
-- Henry David Thoreau |
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that wen you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
-- Cherokee Expression |
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
-- Henry David Thoreau |
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
-- George Santayana |
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
-- Aristotle |
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Teaching others is best done with love. Once the heart has understood, the mind opens.
-- Dadi Janki |
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon |
Never lose the courage to take risks. You are immortal. You can never be hurt.
-- Brian Weiss |
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
-- Benjamin Disraeli |
Self-empowerment is learning to respect other people's music, while dancing to your own tune as you find harmony within yourself.
-- Doc Childre |
We are all in a journey of remembrance whose purpose is to connect us to the essence of our soul and the understanding that all is one.
-- From Essence of Life Heart Values |
Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of love
-- Mother Teresa |
We're all scared. We're all angry. We're all sad. That's a given. The question is, what are we going to do about it?
-- Gabrielle Roth |
Cherish your visions and dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments
-- Napoleon Hill |
| To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you. |
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
-- Jimi Hendrix |
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
-- Father James Keller |
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now and all they expect to have.
-- Edward Everett Hale |
Gaining Enlightenment is like the moon reflecting in the water. The moon does not get wet nor is the water disturbed.
-- Dogen Zenji |
When the human race learns to live as a family, then the world will finally attain the next stage of civilisation and enlightenment.
-- Swami Rami |
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
-- Rumi |
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
-- Michael Korda |
Patience is the mother of all knowledge
-- Indian Folk Saying |
If i fill my life with the right yes's, there's no room for no's.
-- Jane Morrison |
One becomes a buddha the moment one accepts all that life brings, with gratitude.
-- From Osho Transformation Tarot |
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
-- Leo Tolstoy |
Inner happiness is the fuel of success.
-- Joseph Campbell |
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
-- Burton Hills |
Trust your hunches.They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
-- Dr Joyce Brothers |
Whether you think you can or you can't, you are absolutely right.
-- Henry Ford |
That you may see the meaning from within: It is being, it is being.
-- John Lennon |
If peace mattered to you more than anything else...you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations.
-- Eckhart Tolle, from his book A New Earth |
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
-- Lord Bryon |
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
-- William Shakespeare |
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
-- Martin Luther King Jr |
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
-- Mahatma Gandhi |
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
-- Stevie Wonder |
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
-- Dr Joyce Brothers |
| Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly and leave the rest to God. |
Meditation is the flower, love is its fragrance.
-- Osho Zen Transformation Cards |
| Mind over matter...If you don't mind, it don't matter. |
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
-- Thich Naht Hanh |
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
-- Burton Hills |
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished; if you're alive, it isn't.
-- Richard Bach |
Tell me who you love, and I'll tell you who you are.
-- Creole Proverb |
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
-- Vincent Van Gogh |
The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance.
-- Pablo Casals |
War is over, if you want it.
-- Happy Christmas from John and Yoko |
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
-- Mahtma Gandhi |
When I hear somebody sigh that life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what?
-- Sydney J. Harris |
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
-- Dale Carnegie |
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-- Winston Churchill |
Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
-- Willliam Wordsworth |
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
-- Margaret Mead |
Every person's life is a fairytale written by God's fingers
-- Hans Christian Anderson |
Hope never abandons you; you abandon it
-- George Weinberg |
Take rest. A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.
-- Ovid |
Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.
-- The Bible,1 John 3:18 |
It is in the everyday and commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.
-- Richard J. Foster |
Love cures people - both the one who gives it and the one who receives it
-- Karl Menninger |
Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
-- Swedish Proverb |
If we do not learn to live together as friends, we will die apart as fools.
-- Martin Luther King |
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-- Walt Disney |
What ought one to say as each hardship comes? I was practising for this, I was training for this.
-- Epictetus |
God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with.
-- Billy Graham |
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-- Christopher Morley |
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-- Anais Nin |
More than anything, I must have flowers, always, always.
-- Claude Monet |
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-- Bertrand Russell |
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
-- Epictetus |
The greatest joy belongs to the simple heart.
-- Natasha Atlas |
To be wronged or robbed is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
-- Confucius |
It is your mind that creates this world.
-- Siddhartha Buddha |
...If you are all the time aware of what you are doing, you can cultivate awareness...
-- Krishnamurti |
There is no way to peace, peace is the way.
-- Tich Nat Han |
To be at peace with ourselves we need to know ourselves.
-- Caitlin Matthews |
After the game, the king and the pawn go in the same box.
-- Italian Proverb |
To feel renewed, take a spiritual holiday. You don't have to go anywhere except inside yourself, away from the obvious.
-- Dadi Janki |
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
-- Les Brown |
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
-- William Shakespeare |
The best way to feel love is to make someone else feel loved.
-- David Sye |
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.
-- Jawaharal Nehru |
If there is a solution to the problem, there is no need to worry. If there is no solution, there is no sense in worrying either.
-- From The Art of Happiness by HH Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler |
Why is the sea the king of ten thousand streams? Because it lies beneath them. If the great man would rule the people, he must put himself below them...The world will delight in pushing him forward, and will never tire of him.
-- Lao-tse |
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
-- Catherine the Great |
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein |
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories...but to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
-- Lao Tzu |
Solitude is as needfull to the imagination as society is as wholesome for one's character.
-- James Russel Lowell |
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.
-- Horace Bushnell |
The sea is everything...its breath is pure and healthy.
-- Jules Verne |
| Either you run the day or the day runs you. |
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
-- Harrison Ford |
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.
-- Seneca |
problems are challenges waiting for creative solutions to meet them.
-- Dadi Jenki |
The reason dogs have so many friends is because they wag their tails instead of their tongues.
-- Unknown |
Everything is ok in the end. If it's not ok, then it's not the end.
-- Unknown |
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
-- Helen Keller |
To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.
-- Gandhi |
To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master.
-- From Osho Zen Tarot |
Think not that you can direct the course of true love , for if true love finds you worthy, it will direct your course.
-- Kahlil Gibran |
When one will not quarrel, two cannot.
-- Dadi Janki |
It is time for the ideal of success to be replaced by the ideal of service.
-- Albert Einstein |
I've learnt so much from my mistakes...I think I'll make another!
-- Unknown |
All we are saying is give peace a chance...
-- John Lennon |
He who plants a garden plants happiness.
-- Chinese Proverb |
| We cannot direct the wind...but we can adjust the sails. |
We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.
-- Friedrich Nietsche |
When faced with a challenge, look for a way, not a way out.
-- David L. Weatherford |
Love is...to be morons, but together!
-- Paul Valery |
Wherever you go, no matter the weather, always bring you own sunshine.
-- Anthony D'Angelo |
Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it.
-- Irving Berlin |
The Master welcomes the disciples not because he wants to lead them, but because he has so much to share.
-- From Osho Zen Tarot |
