"Vulnerability is the doorway to joy."
~ Rick Britt
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particulary duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful."
~ Marie Curie
"Conincidences are spiritual puns."
~ G. K. Chesterson
"The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why."
~ Albert Einstein
"Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world."
~ Carl Gustav Jung
"God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is."
~ Marianne Williamson
"I couldn't live where there were no trees -- something vital in me would starve."
~ L.M. Montgomery, from Anne's House of Dreams
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."
~ Dr. Seuss
"A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities."
~ the Dalai Lama
"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
~ Mother Teresa
"There is no judging or possessiveness in Love. Love is learning to love the universal. Being the self inside of you."
~ Deepak Chopra
"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether hot or cold, and even from sleep itself."
~ C. S. Lewis
"Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit."
~ David Mamet, Writing in Restaurants
"Thinking is a strenuous art. Few practice it, and then only at rare times."
~ David Ben Gurion
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.”
~ Victor Hugo
“Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.”
~ Paul Simon
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.”
~ Shneur Zalman
“All our souls are written in our eyes.”
~ Edmond Rostard, Cyrano de Bergerac
“’But it isn’t easy,’ said Pooh. ‘Because Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.’”
~ A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
“Wit is just educated insolence.”
~ Aristotle
“Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you.”
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1790
“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.”
~ Socrates, 425 B.C.
“Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation.”
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
~ Ingrid Bergman
“Preach the word of God wherever you go, even use words, if necessary.”
~ St. Francis of Assisi
“A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.”
~ Friedrich von Schiller
“When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar.”
~ William Faulkner
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
~ Thomas Mann
“When there is no wind, row.”
~ Latin proverb
“Knowledge is one. Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness.”
~ Sir Halford John MacKinder, 1887
“I could not think without writing.”
~ Jean Piaget, 1952
“There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.”
~ Thomas Aquinas
“One is always nearer by not keeping still.”
~ Thomas Gunn
“Whatever you choose as your life’s work, do it well. Don’t be content with sheer mediocrity. Do your job so well that all the hosts of Heaven and Earth will have to say, ‘Here lived a man who did his job as if God Almighty called him at this particular moment in history to do it.’”
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It is great to grasp hold of the eternal but greater to stick to the temporal after having given it up.”
~ Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling
“In the world of spirit the only people who are tricked are those who trick themselves.”
~ S. K., F&T
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
~ Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.”
~ R.P., Z&tAoMM
“The silence allows you to do each thing right.”
~ R.P., Z&tAoMM
“The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.”
~ Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist
“All things are the manifestation of one thing only.” ~ P.C., TA
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
~ Albert Camus
“Don’t forget to love yourself.”
~ Sören Kierkegaard
“One’s mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though that communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.”
~ Thomas Moore
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”
~ Meister Eckhart