Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even. – Horace |
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 |
In order to keep a true perspective of one’s importance, everyone should have a dog |
Go with the flow! – Hippie saying |
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. – Alexander Pope |
In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. – Khalil Gibran |
The earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (image: Theophilos Papadopoulos (Creative Commons BY-NC-ND—no changes) |
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. – James M. Barrie |
A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and become swallowed up by the world of illusion. – Sai Baba |
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. – Dr. Wayne Dyer |
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. – Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality… the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. – Jose Ortega y Gasset |
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. – Timothy Leary |
Smile, it’s free therapy. – Douglas Horton |
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. – William Lyon Phelps |
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. – Jeff Billings |
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. – Alphonse de Lamartine |
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese. – Luis Bunuel |
I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that’s 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says “go outside.” – Demetri Martin |
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. – Rupert Brooke |
Love is a friendship set to music. – Joseph Campbell |
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. – Victor Hugo |
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. – Leo Buscaglia |
Love is the river of life in the world. – Henry Ward Beecher |
To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is. – Albert Einstein |
If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind. – Lao Tzu |
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. – Rumi |
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. – Maya Angelou
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The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Mahatma Gandhi
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As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think. – Joseph Campbell |
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington |
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. – Octavia Butler |
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. – Abraham Lincoln |
Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain. |
Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them. – Sharon Salzberg |
When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation. – Osho |
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius |
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. – William Shakespeare |
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it—always. – Mahatma Gandhi (Read more on our Facebook page) |
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. – Confucius |
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 |
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. – Carl Jung |
We make good use of this life for the time that we have left, this brief flash of light, like the sun appearing through the clouds. – Kalu Rinpoche |
Joseph Campbell was fond of asking Schopenhauer’s question, found in his essay On the Foundations of Morality: “How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that it moves me to action?. . .This is something really mysterious, something for which Reason can provide no explanation, and for which no basis can be found in practical experience. It is not unknown even to the most hard-hearted and self-interested. Examples appear every day before our eyes of instant responses of the kind, without reflection, one person helping another, coming to his aid, even setting his own life in clear danger for someone whom he has seen for the first time, having nothing more in mind than that the other is in need and in peril of his life. . . . ” (from Thou Art That by Joseph Campbell)(image: 500px.com/DenisSavoie) |
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The highest form of human intelligence is the ability to distinguish observation from evaluation. – J Krishnamurti |
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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. – Jiddu Krishnamurti (image: carasdesign.ro) |
A wise man can choose a lifestyle but there’s no lifestyle of the wise. Be wise and choose your lifestyle. (image: 500px.com/carasionut) |
Last updated: January 27th, 2019