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Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
Teresa of Ávila, The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best way to overcome the habit of Fear is to assume the mental attitude of Courage, just as the best way to get rid of darkness is to let in the light.
William Walker Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or The Law of Attraction in the Thought World
…whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism, do not let yourselves be discouraged by the sadness of certain hours which pass over nations.
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
Just as surely as you do the best you can the best will come to you.
Emma Curtis Hopkins, Mary and Martha
I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dissolution of the Order of the Star
…in the pursuit of science we first start with hopes and expectations; these we realise and establish never again to be lost, and upon them we found new expectations of further discoveries, and so go on pursuing, realising, establishing, and founding new hopes again and again.
Michael Faraday, A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter
You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware of.
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and presence of God.
Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart's Sermons
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always…
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
…Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
Keep your heart in peace; let nothing in this world disturb it: all things have an end.
John of the Cross, The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Vol. II
How beautiful that most of our troubles never happen!
Elbert Hubbard, The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
Every day, in every respect, I am getting better and better.
Émile Coué, Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
Plunge onwards into the void, and you shall find it full! Spring forward into the darkness, and you shall find a rock beneath your feet!
Annie Besant, In the Outer Court
Be not made sad by the adverse events of this life, for you know not the good they bring with them…
John of the Cross, The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Vol. II
Relying on the maxim that Principle is not bound by Precedent we should not limit our expectations of the future…
Thomas Troward, The Creative Process in the Individual
Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then.
Mabel Collins, Light on the Path
To have a restful or peaceful life in God is good; to bear a life of pain in patience is better; but to have peace in the midst of pain is the best of all.
Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart's Sermons