In Compassion Do everything you have to do, but not with greed, not with ego, not with lust, not with envy; but with love, compassion, humility and devotion. This is the teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita. – Radhanath Swami
In Believe In Yourself Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe. – Oprah Winfrey
In Alive The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget. – Arundhati Roy The End of Imagination, essay from her collection of essays, The Algebra of Infinite Justice.
In Best We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. – John F. Kennedy Final speech to the United Nations, September 20, 1963.
In Live If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. – Winnie the Pooh Disney Pictures, inspired by A. A. Milne books.
In Heart A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart. – Zeus Disney movie, Hercules, voiced by Rip Torn.
In Change God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr
In Depression Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. – @debihope (Twitter)
In Mountains Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. – John Muir
In Flowers Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars…Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. – Osho
In Heart Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. – The Bible Jesus Christ, Mark 12:30
In Flowers What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. – Joseph Addison
In Great Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt
In Cure The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word ‘love.’ It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life. – Lydia M. Child
In God All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. – Leo Tolstoy War and Peace, Book 12, Chapter 16, Prince Andrew’s thoughts.
In Alive Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster’s scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. – Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
In Angel I asked God for a flower, he gave me a banquet. I asked God for a minute, he gave me a day. I asked God for true love, he gave me that too. I asked God for an angel, and he gave me you. – John Raine
In Drown Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. – The Bible Song of Solomon 8:7
In Bless Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. – The Bible Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:44.
He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights, Chapter 9, Catherine Earnshaw to Ellen (Nelly) Dean about Heathcliff.
In Love Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself. – Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy
In Alive Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. – Elbert Hubbard A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
In Darkness Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. – Marianne Williamson Return To Love.
