I always give much away, and so gather happiness instead of pleasure.
-Rahel Levin Varnhagen
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
-Baruch Spinoza
Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water.
-Milarepa
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact.
-Ayya Khema
Birth is an expression complete this moment. Death is an expression complete this moment. They are like winter and spring. You do not call winter the beginning of spring, nor summer the end of spring.
-Genjo Koan
Kindness makes a fellow feel good, whether it's being done to him or by him.
-Frank A. Clark
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-Anais Nin
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
-May Sarton