Blessed is the man who bears with his neighbor according to the frailty of his nature as much as he would wish to be borne with by him if he should be in a like case.
Francis of Assisi, The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
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Just as surely as you do the best you can the best will come to you.
Emma Curtis Hopkins, Mary and Martha
Most people lose sight of the simplicity of happiness. They look for it in big, complicated things. Real happiness is perfectly simple. In fact, it is incompatible with complexity. Simplicity is its very essence.
Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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
…if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week…
Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
Humanity, surely, needs practical men who make the best of their work for the sake of their own interests, without forgetting the general interest. But it also needs dreamers, for whom the unselfish following of a purpose is so imperative that it becomes impossible for them to devote much attention to their own material benefit.
Marie Curie, Pierre Curie
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
Joy is the leviathan power resident in man.
Emma Curtis Hopkins, Résumé: Practice Book for the Twelve Chapters in High Mysticism
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By, and Other Tales
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor worry.
Francis of Assisi, The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi
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
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
Nothing great, said Epictetus, is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
Epictetus, Discourses
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dissolution of the Order of the Star
Without the sense of collaborating with like-minded beings in the pursuit of the ever unattainable in art and scientific research, my life would have been empty.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
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