309 quotes
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
— Plato
“The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered calm and moving through life with poise.”
— Deepak Chopra
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”
— Sextus Empiricus
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“When you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
— Epictetus
“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.”
— Seneca
“How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours”
— Wayne Dyer
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
— Aristotle
“When I let go of what I am I become what I might be.”
— Laozi
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
— Gautama Buddha
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
— Helen Keller
“If you think you are too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito”
— Dalai Lama
“In a day when you do not come across any problems you can be sure you are traveling in a wrong path.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray
“He who digs a pit for others falls in himself.”
— Unknown
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment.”
— Vera Nazarian
“Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.”
— Osho
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.”
— Pythagoras
“The measure you give will be the measure you get back.”
— Jesus of Nazareth
“The universe conspires in favor of those who follow their personal legend.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
— William Shakespeare
“Rest satisfied with doing well and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You do not need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Life is a song sing it. Life is a game play it. Life is a challenge meet it.”
— Sai Baba
“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past but you will find yourself.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
— Rumi
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
— Buddha
“No mud no lotus.”
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside us while we live.”
— Norman Cousins
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
“Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value.”
— Albert Einstein
“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life. Think of it dream of it live on that idea.”
“Wherever you go go with all your heart.”
— Confucius
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good and it will ever bubble up if you will ever dig.”
“The world is changed by your example not by your opinion”
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
“Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Character is destiny.”
— Heraclitus
“Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation.”
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“If you do not like something change it. If you cannot change it change your attitude.”
— Maya Angelou
“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
— Vivekananda
“Put your heart mind and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
— Swami Sivananda
“Even as the holy ones of old were not combated by good and evil, so he who has reached perfection is not troubled by them.”
— Patanjali
“There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions it is when you give of yourself that you truly give”
— Khalil Gibran
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.”
“All life is yoga and the meeting of the human and the divine is its ultimate purpose.”
— Sri Aurobindo
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
— Lao Tzu
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
“Silence is a source of great strength.”
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else.”
“Every thought you produce anything you say any action you do it bears your signature.”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“As she has done, do unto her; for she hath been proud against the Lord.”
— Jeremiah
“Every thought you produce anything you say any action you do it bears your signature”
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you cannot help them at least do not hurt them.”
“Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.”
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
— Mother Teresa
“The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.”
“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.”
— John Lennon
“Life is a journey not a destination.”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do”
— Voltaire
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“If you plant goodness, you will reap goodness; if you plant evil, you will reap evil.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“Experience life in all possible ways. Good and bad bitter and sweet dark and light summer and winter.”
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
“He who digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him.”
— King Solomon
“For with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
— Hafiz
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”
— Sophocles
“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not even in the clefts of the mountains is there a spot where a man may be freed from an evil deed.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Not in the sky, nor in mid-ocean, nor in a mountain cave, is found that place on earth where abiding one may escape from the consequences of one's evil deed.”
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son.”
— Ezekiel
“Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
— Pema Chodron
“What you are is what you have been what you will be is what you do now”
“Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
“The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.”
— Hesiod
“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
“The only thing that is constant is change.”
“If thou wouldst be borne with, then bear with others.”
— Thomas Fuller
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”
“He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.”
“Before you speak ask yourself is it kind is it necessary is it true does it improve upon the silence.”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance.”
— Alan Watts
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see”
— Mark Twain
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless”
“Watch your thoughts they become your words watch your words they become your actions”
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive you will see it.”
“If you judge people you have no time to love them.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl
“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Do not be deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
“Where there is love there is life.”
“Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo
“The best fighter is never angry.”
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
“Adapt adjust accommodate. Bear insult bear injury. This is the highest spiritual practice.”
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”
“We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“The man who does ill must suffer ill.”
— Aeschylus
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“As she has planted, so does she harvest; such is the field of karma.”
— Guru Nanak
“Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not thunder.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you that will be enough.”
— Meister Eckhart
“My actions are my only true belongings I cannot escape the consequences of my actions”
“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.”
“Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later.”
— Og Mandino
“Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.”
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.”
“Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind what we sow is what we reap”
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”
“The faults of others we write upon sand, our own virtues we write in marble.”
— Thomas More
“The more I read the more I acquire the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves”
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts”
“It always seems impossible until it is done.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“You have power over your mind not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.”
“The arrow that has left the bow never returns.”
— Omar Khayyam
“The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”
“He who feels no compassion will receive none.”
— Sa'di Shirazi
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
“First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the others.”
— Cicero
“The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.”
“Whatever affliction may visit you is for what your own hands have earned; and for many He grants forgiveness.”
“No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted.”
— Aesop
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.”
“We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
“The moment you accept yourself you become beautiful.”
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.”
“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
— Richard Brooks
“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Do not dwell in the past do not dream of the future concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
“The act itself is its own reward, and the punishment of the act is the act itself.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
“How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours and your healing lies in that reaction”
“When anger rises think of the consequences.”
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
“Well done is better than well said”
— Benjamin Franklin
“When you practice gratefulness there is a sense of respect toward others.”
“If you love a flower do not pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies. Let it be. Love is not about possession.”
“Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.”
— Solomon
“Smile breathe and go slowly.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.”
“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not by entering the clefts of mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where one may be free from the consequences of an evil deed.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference because it does.”
— William James
“Whether you think you can or you think you cannot you are right.”
— Henry Ford
“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas Edison
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.”
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves.”
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
“Do not be deceived; character is fate.”
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
“To find yourself think for yourself.”
“To those who by persistence in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, he will give eternal life.”
— Paul the Apostle
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
“Strong minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events weak minds discuss people”
“Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.”
“Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
“Even as the holy ones of old were arranged in their due order, and the stars fight from their courses, so is the deed its own judge, the deed its own reward.”
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
“An evil deed does not turn to cream right away, but like fire covered with ashes, it follows the fool, smoldering.”
“The deed cannot be undone; what is done is never lost, but comes back to find the doer.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun the moon and the truth.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
“Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.”
— James Allen
“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
“Arise awake and do not stop until the goal is reached.”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
“Not in the sky, nor in mid-ocean, nor in a mountain cave, is there a spot in the whole world where one may escape from the fruit of an evil action.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves and to others is to remain ignorant by not having the courage to look at ourselves honestly.”
“Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
“The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.”
— Yajnavalkya
“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”
“Every act of kindness is a piece of love we leave behind.”
“In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?”
“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.”
“Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“Action is the foundational key to all success, but every action has a consequence that must be reconciled.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer
“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms. You will be able to use them better when you are older.”
“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
— Plutarch
“Be realistic. Plan for a miracle.”
“If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; if well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.”
“There is no success without hardship.”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“He who digs a pit shall fall into it, and he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.”
“Do not explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Watch your thoughts they become your words. Watch your words they become your actions.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of our ignorance.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth you owe me. Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”
“As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is that matters.”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together.”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.”
“The mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.”
— Friedrich von Logau
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“Heaven's net is wide; coarse are the meshes, yet nothing slips through.”
“To lead people walk behind them.”
“Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other.”
“The arrow once loosed from the bow does not return; so a word, once spoken, does not come back.”
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
“Peace begins with a smile.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“The planet does not need more successful people. It desperately needs more peacemakers healers and restorers.”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“Be as simple as you can be and you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
“All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.”
“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls.”
“Harm watch, harm catch.”
“To see what is right and not do it is a lack of courage.”
“Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.”
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I will meet you there.”
“Because you are alive everything is possible.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
“Whatever you are be a good one”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
“For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
— Matthew the Evangelist
“Those who act kindly in this world will have kindness.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.”
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
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