– if your voice couldn’t make a difference, they wouldn’t try to silence you. – anonymous
– don’t believe everything you think. – robert fulghum
– do you prefer to be right or be happy? – anonymous
– so long as you resist a situation, you have it with you. if you run away from it, it will run after you. – florence scovel shinn
– the cure for pain is in the pain. – rumi
– how do you follow the course of your life if you do not let it flow? – lao tzu
– don’t wait for other other people to be happy for you. any happiness you get you’ve got to make for yourself. – alice walker
– if you know, as i do, the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing some of it. – the buddha
– your children are not your children. they are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself. they come through you, but not from you. – kahlil gibran
– everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – carl jung
– the sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. – leo tolstoy
– the only difference between a flower and a weed is a judgment. – wayne dyer
– a human does not cease to exist at death. it is change, not destruction, that takes place. – florence nightingale
– part of getting over it is knowing you will never get over it.- anne finger
– i liked human beings, but i did not love human behavior. – ellen glasgow
– if you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. – lin yutang
– stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. – alan watts
– aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been. – david bowie
– it’s not the length of life, but the depth – ralph waldo emerson
– the best one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. – henry wadsworth longfellow
– how old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? – satchel paige
– i can do nothing for you but work on myself. – ram dass
– there is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally. – don miguel ruiz
– people do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. – ralph waldo emerson
– for me, success is not a public thing. it’s when you have fewer and fewer regrets. – toni morrison
– we are all here to help others; what on earth the others are here for i dont know. – w.h. auden
– think of yourself as an ever-changing process than a fixed person… an unfolding narrative. – toni bernhard
– when we learn to rest in our own goodness, we can see the goodness more clearly in others. – jack kornfield
– just look at the flowers and trees. they do not suppress each other. even when crowded, they show themselves and grow in all directions and so make it to the light. – mark nepo
– you make your own hell or heaven by the way you have lived. – elisabeth kubler-ross
– help is always available as long as you don’t demand where it comes from. – anonymous
– it is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. do what you can. – sydney smith
– you become what you think about all day. – ralph waldo emerson
– remember that the clock is a human invention. – barbara ann kipfer
– the simplest acts of kindness are more powerful than 1000 heads bowed in prayer. – mohandas gandhi
– the intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. we have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. – albert einstein
– it is not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. it’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. – l.r. knost
– the spiritual journey is not about heaven and finally getting to a place that’s really swell. in fact, that way of looking at things is what keeps us miserable. – pema chodron
– there is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – william shakespeare
– man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. – george moore
– we are not the survival of the fittest, we are the survival of the nurtured. – louis cozolino
– the two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – mark twain
– i may not have gone where i intended to go, but i think i have ended up where i needed to be. – douglas adams
– enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean. – thich nhat hanh
– rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. healing is an act of communion. – bell hooks
– the more you know, the less you need. – yvon chouinard
– often the moment when we most need to pause is exactly when it feels most intolerable to do so. – tara brach
– we are all just walking each other home. – ram dass
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