If we read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~ Longfellow

My sun sets to rise again.
~Robert Browning

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."
~ Krishnamurti

Here I sit between my brother, the mountain, and my sister, the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
~ Kahil Gibran

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.
~ Ajahn Chah

Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
~ Rumi

When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.
~Hazrat Inayat Khan

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
~George Santayana

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
~Louis L'Amour

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
~Sir Thomas Browne

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
~Richard Bach

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
~The 14th Dalai Lama

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day in rhythmic measure.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flowers.
~Rabindranath Tagore

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.
~Max Ehrmann

Life is a promise; fulfill it.
~Mother Theresa

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
~Alexander Graham Bell

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
~Albert Einstein

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~Carl Jung