I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.
-Lloyd Dobler
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves, but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
-Pema Chodron
Even after all this time the sun never say to the earth “you owe me.” Look what happens with a love like that, it lights up the whole sky.
-Hafiz
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls off the rails…If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains. If the bell rings, why should we run?
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
-Henry David Thoreau (Walden Pond)
You think you’re thinking your thoughts. You are not. You are thinking your cultures thoughts.
-Krishnamurti
How you do anything is how you do everything.
Zen proverb
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
That’s what alchemists do. They show that, when we strive to become better than what we are, everything around us becomes better too.
-Paulo Coehlo
How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours.
-Wayne Dyer
Don’t wait for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make for yourself.
-Alice Walker
I want to help people be less afraid.
-Robin Williams
Those who know don’t talk; those who talk don’t know.
-Lao-tzu
Know what you really know, feel what you really feel, say what you really mean, and do what you really want.
-Unknown
True happiness cannot be found in some thing or some person, because as everything changes, that level of happiness is bound to be temporary. More enduring is the possibility of experiencing a loving heart in any circumstance.
-Sharon Salzberg
When we expose our own hurt or fear, we actually give others permission to be more authentic.
-Tara Brach
All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.
-from the book the Tao te Ching
By attending our own inner growth, we uncannily become exactly who we are, and like the tulip whose blossomed petal is the exact shape of the bee, our self-actualization attracts a host of loving others more real than all our fantasies. In this way, the Universe continues through the unexpected coming together of blossomed souls.
-Mark Nepo
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am larger and better than I thought. I did not think I held so much goodness.
-Walt Whitman
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
-Francois de la Rochefoucald
When we offer ourselves the same quality of unconditional friendliness that we would offer to a friend, we stop denying our suffering.
-Tara Brach
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
-John Steinbeck
If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.
-Deepak Chopra
How do you follow the course of your life if you do not let it flow?
-Lao-tzu
The mind, once enlightened, cannot become dark.
-Thomas Paine
The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
I want to be like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
-Rumi
The child is in me still…and sometimes not so still.
-Fred Rogers
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
-Nietsche
What we lived through is living in us.
-Rupi Kaur
Here’s a test to find out if your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
-Lauren Bacall
The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.
-Jessica Hische
It’s never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot
When you can write your autobiography on the back of a stamp and still have room to spare, I wish to meet you.
-Mooji
Hell is other people.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am, I am what I think you think I am.
-Charles Horton Cooley
Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
-The Buddha
For no matter how unfinished we seem, the letting go into sleep is nothing short of a miracle. This letting go…is an innate, reflexive form of meditation.
-Mark Nepo
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
-Paul Hawken
Your art is not about how many people like your work. Your art is about if your heart likes your work. If your soul likes your work. It’s about how honest you are about yourself and you never trade honesty for relatability.
-Rupi Kaur
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves…
-Mary Oliver
Pure light is all colors. Therefore, it has no hue. Only when singleness is scattered does color appear.
-Deng Ming-Dao
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
-George Washington Carver
I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.
-Cheryl Strayed
A Grace Full Life 