The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
The more you love, the more you'll find that life is good and friends are kind, for only what we give away enriches us from day to day.
Helen Steiner Rice
All speech, action, and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
Seneca
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.
Albert Schweitzer
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.
Rachel Naomi Remen
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick
Once gone, a day will never return.
from the Jain scriptures
Therefore, one must strive to do good in every moment.
We reach the goal of the great life by good works.
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience. Taking responsability for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.
Byron Katie
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William James
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
Eric Hoffer
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung
When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.
P.D. Ouspensky
A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words point at the truth, but the truth is not in words. To seek illumination through words is to get lost in the web of words and not see the truth.
Huineng
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Denis Waitley
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.
William James
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony Robbins
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mohandas Gandhi
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
Voltaire
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
Will Rogers
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Eric Hoffer
To be "viable", livable, or merely practical, life must be lived as a game - and the "must" here expresses a condition, not a commandment. It must be lived in the spirit of play rather than work.
Alan Watts
Happy were men if they but understood
John Fountain
There is no safety but in doing good.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John Ruskin
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
Elizabeth Lawrence
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
Ivan Illich
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
J. B. Priestley
The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.
Byron Katie
Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.
Ashleigh BrilliantBe more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
Dom Helder Camara
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.
Calvin & Hobbes
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon
The texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Each person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint. There are no two people alike...no two people who understand the same sentence the same way...So in dealing with people try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.
Milton Erickson
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
Why do you so earnestly seek
Ryokan
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart.
The spiritual aspirant must swim upstream, against the current of habit, familiarity and ease.
Eknath Easwaran
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
I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.
Dale Carnegie
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
John Henry Newman
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
Joseph Roux
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
John Donne
What counts in making a happy relationship is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Daniel Goleman
What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.
Stephen Mitchell
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes
If they give you lined paper, write the other way.
William Carlos Williams
Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Denis Waitley
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.
Byron KatieLove is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
Jackson Browne Jr.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.
Richard Pryor
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
Paul Kurtz
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Hal Borland
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
William Stafford
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down. We don't move, today is today, always is today.
Octavio Paz
When I dare to be powerful--to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde
A false sense of security is the only kind there is.
Michael Meade
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck
You live longer once you realise that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
Ruth E. Renkl
The battle to keep up appearance unnecessarily, the mask--whatever name you give creeping perfectionism--robs us of our energies.
Robin Worthington
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
William James
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
Taisen Deshimaru
The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
J. Harold Wilkins
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
Erastus Wiman
Everything you do in life is worth infinite care and infinite effort.
John D. MacDonald as written for Travis McGee
All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
Sidney Lumet
I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living that one needs.
Lin-yutang
Having failed to distinguish thoughts from things, we then fail to distinguish words from thoughts. We think that if we can label a thing we have understood it.
Maha Sthavira Sangharakshita
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
Wendell Berry
If you don't know the kind of person I am
William Stafford
and I don't know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasureable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
Matthieu Ricard
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Helen Keller
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.
J. Krishnamurti
Joy seems to arise from a sense of being where one belongs. . . All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.
David Grayson
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali
He prayeth best, who loveth best
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All things, both great and small
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
All is beautiful, all is more beautiful, and life is thankfulness.
Iguilik Eskimo song
A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words point at the truth, but the truth is not in words. To seek illumination through words is to get lost in the web of words and not see the truth.
Huineng
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
Benjamin Disraeli
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down. We don't move, today is today, always is today.
Octavio Paz
Only when you awaken do you realize you were dreaming.
John Wareham
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm
The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Stevie Wonder
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it...Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
“Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
Dalai Lama
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
VoltaireNow today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.
Brenda Shoshanna
When one’s thoughts are at peace and have become transparent
Hung Ying-Ming
One sees the true form of the mind.
No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Louis L'Amour
The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
Celia Thaxter
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Bruce Lee
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
Mia Hamm
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
James Barrie
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situation of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
John Adams
The price of freedom is responsibility, but it is a bargain, because freedom is priceless.
Hugh Downs
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Oliver Goldsmith
First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
Thomas à Kempis
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
Celia Thaxter
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
John Lubbock
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
Will Rogers
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
Henry Emerson Fosdick
Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.
Václav Havel
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life.'
Wayne Dyer
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer
When you accept where you are, you can let go of the emotionally charged state of duality that always wants something better. When you truly let go, the next step in your evolution of consciousness is waiting for you.
Richard Bartlett
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
Rene Daumal
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James
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
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee
Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell
Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
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