Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

Meher Baba

The future is always beginning now.

Mark Strand

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Hans Christian Andersen

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Joseph Campbell

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."

Ancient Native American Proverb

 

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

Jane Goodall

It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.

Paul Brunton

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. 

Desmond Tutu

This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.

Meher Baba

 

 

You are not your body. You are the sum of all your actions, and they live on after your body dies. You may be mortal, but your brand is eternal.

Jarod Kintz

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. 

Mahatma Gandhi

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. 

William Arthur Ward

Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird,

That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. 

Omar Khayyam

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. 

William Shakespeare

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino

 

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. 

William James

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Buddha

 

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.

Author Unknown

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Dr. Seuss

Humanity is the earth’s nerve-endings through which planetary vibrations are received for transmission.

Gurdjieff

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

 

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Joseph Campbell

 

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.

Amit Ray

 

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
How are you?

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
What is God?

If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,

O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!

Hafez

Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

Living is a horizontal fall.

Jean Cocteau

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

 

 

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. 

William Shakespeare

 

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

Man Ray

 

O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

Walt Whitman

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilder

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go. . .

Dr. Seuss

Oh, The Places You'll Go

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Albert Einstein

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. 

Omar Khayyam

 

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Albert Einstein

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

 

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

 

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Aaron Rose

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

 

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Virginia Woolf

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

 

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,

Sing like there's nobody listening,

And live like it's heaven on earth.” 

William Purkey

 

 

 

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds.

Ojibway proverb

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost in it. One is aware also of the suffering which exists around him or her and the world at large.

Paul Brunton

 

Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear on how do we get together now around the world and get out of the mess that we've made. That's the key thing now. Never mind how we got to be who we are.

Jane Goodall

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! Forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! Control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise . . .

Paramahansa Yogananda

What we think, we become.

Buddha

 

 

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Almost all sadness comes from thinking about the past, and all worry from thinking about the future — present-mindedness is your only safe haven.

Bryant McGill

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each moment anew.

Paul Brunton

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

The water colored twilight, 
with pelicans and Alcatraz on San Francisco Bay, 
as seen from Treasure Island. 
In the chilly air, 
I catch through my lens, 
the sense of an infinite profoundness, 
like a falling star. 
Go figure.

Ron Henggeler  

Your future depends on what you do today.

Mahatma Gandhi

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Chief Seattle 

Duwamish

Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.

Jane Goodall

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. 

Arthur Rubinstein

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

 

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

Jane Goodall

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

Walt Whitman

The future is always beginning now.

Mark Strand

 

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

Lao Tzu

 

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

 

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Ernest Holmes

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”

Oprah Winfrey

For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

T.S. Eliot

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Jack Kerouac

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Hermann Hesse

 

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. 

Joseph Campbell

Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

Walt Whitman

What is past is prologue. 

William Shakespeare

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

Jack Kerouac