Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and give strength to body and soul alike
– John Muir

A small body of determined spirits, fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission, can alter the course of history
– Mahatma Gandhi

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion
– Dalai Lama

Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
– Marcus Aurelius

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

Bling bling with no end and no aim is nothing but a form of idolatry.

Non-marketplace values, like LOVE, struggle against a market-driven culture.

LOVE can change the world.

Freedom fighters keep track of the indescribable scars & bruises but refuse to be victims.

FYI: Black women are going to be the crucial part of the next wave of our collective leadership.
– Cornel West

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are but the instrument of heaven. Our work is not design but destiny.
– Owen Meredith ♡

Peace begins with a smile.
– Mother Theresa

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
– Peter Nivio Zarlenga

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
– Coleman Young

Anything that you can imagine is yours to be or do or have.
– Abraham Hicks

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
– Guy de Maupassant

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.
– Dalai Lama

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
– Clint Eastwood

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
– Paul Celan

Where thou art, that is home.
– Emily Dickinson

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
– Charlie Chaplin

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.
– Rainer Maria Rilke

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one; I hope some day you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.
– John Lennon

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
– James Thurber (born 8 December 1894)

May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
– Delmore Schwartz (Born 8 December 1913)

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing. That’s not saying that people shouldn’t keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.
– Jim Morrison (Born 8 December 1943)

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
– Horace

Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
Better than a hundred hollow lines
Is one line of the law, bringing peace.

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage… If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule.
– Gautama Buddha
in
Dhammapada
(Bodhi Day a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment)

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Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go!
– T.S. Eliot

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, “Truth is the daughter of Time.”
– Abraham Lincoln

When the heart is innocent & the walls have disappeared, you are bridged with infinity
– Osho

As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. JUMP.. It’s not as wide as you think.
– Joseph Campbell

The essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.

Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically.

Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other’s affection.

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others’ suffering.

I think that ethical behavior is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence.

We must insist on the observation that my right to happiness carries no more weight than others’ similar right.

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

All the major religious traditions carry the message of love, compassion and forgiveness.

The ultimate factor determining whether we have a healthy mind and a healthy body lies within.
– Dalai Lama

Give what you want to receive.
– Russell Simmons

All we are saying is give peace a chance.
– John Lennon

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
– Erich Fromm

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
– Chinese Proverb

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt…Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
– César Chávez

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it — for a little while.
– Willa Cather

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence
– Norman Vincent Peale

It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.
– Aristotle

Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.
– Stephen Levine

When the mind has thus vanished, you realize eternal Peace.
– Ramana Maharshi

That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.
– Joan Baez

Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.
– The XIVth Dalai Lama

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
– Desiderius Erasmus

Treasure each empty moment of the experience. Something sacred is about to be born!
– Osho

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
– Albert Einstein