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Oh, weep no more! in sorrow's dwelling-place The roses yet shall spring from the bare floor! And heart bowed down beneath a secret pain— Oh stricken heart! joy shall return again, Peace to the love-tossed brain—oh, weep no more!
Hafiz, Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
Knowest thou why thy mirror reflects not? Because the rust has not been scoured from its face.
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dissolution of the Order of the Star
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Secreted and hidden in the heart of the world and in the heart of man is the light which can illumine all life, the future and the past.
Mabel Collins, Through the Gates of Gold
As the same sugar is made into various figures of birds and beasts, so one sweet Mother Divine is worshipped in various climes and ages under various names and forms. Different creeds are but different paths to reach the Almighty.
Sri Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.
Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay
…that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.
Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle
From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
Michael Faraday, The Life and Letters of Faraday, Vol. II
Everything can always be done better than it is being done.
Henry Ford, My Life and Work
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
…the sufficiency of contentment is an enduring and unchanging sufficiency.
Lao Tzu, The Tao Teh King
In its highest form, politeness almost approaches love.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.
Epictetus, Enchiridion
Lord, he who remembers Thee as the Sole Giver will never lack the sweetness of friendship among mortals.
Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
…all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
…who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic
When the year becomes cold, then we know how the pine and the cypress are the last to lose their leaves.
Confucius, The Analects