Thich Nhat Hanh

 "Do not accumulate wealth whilst millions are hungry. Do not take as the aim of your life, fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure. Live simply and share time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need."

victor frankl

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."

"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for."

Edgar Allan Poe

“I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.”

Lao Tzu

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”

George Harrison

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”

Andy Warhol

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

Soren Kierkegaard

"The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased.  If I were a doctor and were asked my advice I should reply: Create Silence."

T. Brown Jr

"Man living in the island of self is living but a small part of what life is all about.  Man must transcend the barriers, the prisons of ego and thought, and reach the Creator.  All islands, all circles, must be bridged.  Each world must be understood, then finally fused into an absolute and pure oneness.  Then there can be no inner or outer dimension, no separation of self, just a pure oneness where man is at once all things.  It is in this fusion of worlds that man will know all things and live the deeper meanings of life... Then and only then can man ever hope to touch God."

Dyer

"We all share the same oxygen, drink from the same water, walk and reside on the same soil.  And whether we like to admit it or not, we are all intimately sharing each other's continually changing atoms and molecules.  Everything that is manifested in a material form is changing at all moments.  The continuous shift of atoms means that there is no separateness in the quantum scientific sense or in  any other sense.  Your sacred self is waiting for you to make the choice to let your ego know the truth."

Gary McKay

"You have the capacity to choose what you think about.  If you choose to think about past hurts, you will continue to feel bad.  While it's true you cannot change the effect past influences had on you once,  you can change the effect they have on you now."

Job 12:8

"Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee."

Nathan Kollar

"Suffering breaks our world.  Like a tree struck by lightening -- splintered, shaken, denuded -- our world is broken by suffering, and we will never be the same again. What will become of us is a mystery."

J.K. Rowling

“Those we love never truly leave us… There are things that death cannot touch.”

george herbert

"was ever grief like mine?"

Martha Hickman

"It's probably unavoidable, after the first rush of grief and crisis, that from time to time we hold the world, the seasons, the days and nights, at arm's length -- a kind of general anesthesia against life, because it is so painful to allow ourselves to feel."

John Ruskin

"The deadliest of all things to me is the loss of faith in nature.  No spring-- no summer.  Fog always, and the snow faded from the alps."

Eckhart Tolle

“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.”

Abraham Lincoln

"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves."

Isak Dinesen

"Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest."

Sizo

"If we could untangle the mysteries of life and unravel the energies which run through the world; if we could evaluate correctly the significance of passing events; if we could measure the struggles, dilemmas, and aspirations of mankind, we could find that nothing is born out of time. Everything comes at it's appointed moment."

Hickman

"That's how important we are to each other - as essential as food and water. And especially now, when we are suffering from loss."

Kahlil Gibran

"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

75th Verse

"When taxes are too high,

people go hungry.

When the government is too intrusive,

people lose their spirit.

Act for the people's benefit;

trust them, by leaving them alone."

Tao Te Ching

Mary Oliver

"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.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you about mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things."

Success

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."
~Swami Vivekananda~

Neal Donald Walsch

"Which snowflake is the most magnificent? Is it possible that they are all magnificent - and that, celebrating their magnificence together they create an awesome display? Then they melt into each other, and into the Oneness.  Yet they never go away.  They never disappear.  They never cease to be. Simply, they change form.  And not just once, but several times: from solid to liquid, from liquid to vapor, from the seen to the unseen, to rise again, and then again to return in new displays of breathtaking beauty and wonder.  This is Life, nourishing Life."

anton chekhov

"should his heart break and the grief pour out, it would flow over the whole earth, it seems, and yet, no one sees it."

Amish

"We have no enemies; we are all God's children, and forgiveness is at the very core of our christian faith.  If we can't forgive those who are lost and would do harm to us, then our faith in meaningless."

Anne Frank

"in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart... I can feel the suffering of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that all will all come right."

Peace

"Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!"
- Swami Vivekananda