Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal.
Mabel Collins, Light on the Path
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The universe and I came into being together; and I, and everything therein, are ONE.
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer
Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Look for the flower to bloom in the silence that follows the storm: not till then.
Mabel Collins, Light on the Path
…we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
True love accepts prosperity and adversity with an equal spirit, that of joy and delight.
John of the Cross, The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Vol. II
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
Friends, we are all on the journey; life itself is a journey.
Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Inner Life
…all things respond to the call of rejoicing; all things gather where life is a song.
Christian D. Larson, Just Be Glad
…that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life
He said not: Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be afflicted; but He said: Thou shalt not be overcome.
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
Love depends not on outward form or face.
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
What is wanted for growth is not a change without us, but a change within us.
Annie Besant, Thought Power: Its Control and Culture
Remember then: there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By, and Other Tales
We are what we make ourselves and not what circumstances make us.
Émile Coué, Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
…stick to it steadily; and you will see great Effects, for Constant Dropping wears away Stones, and by Diligence and Patience the Mouse ate in two the Cable; and Little Strokes fell great Oaks…
Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth
Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
The Buddha, The Dhammapada
It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
The true felicity of life is to be free from perturbations, to understand our duties towards God and man: to enjoy the present without any anxious dependence upon the future.
Seneca, Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.
P. T. Barnum, Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
Compassion is no attribute. It is the LAW of LAWS—eternal Harmony, Alaya’s SELF; a shoreless universal essence, the light of everlasting Right, and fitness of all things, the law of love eternal.
H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence
Praised be my Lord for our sister, mother earth, The which sustains and keeps us And brings forth diverse fruits with grass and flowers bright.
Francis of Assisi, The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
Organizations cannot make you free. No man from outside can make you free;
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dissolution of the Order of the Star