His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation.

H.G. Wells

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Marcel Proust

We don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Henry Ellis

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Author Unknown

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.

John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.

Seneca

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Tom Robbins

Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mocking birds aren't content to merely play the hand that is dealt them. Like all artists, they are out to rearrange reality. Innovative, willful, daring, not bound by the rules to which others may blindly adhere, the mockingbird collects snatches of birdsong from this tree and that field, appropriates them, places them in new and unexpected contexts, recreates the world from the world. For example, a mockingbird in South Carolina was heard to blend the songs of thirty-two different kinds of birds into a ten-minute performance, a virtuoso display that serve no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

Edward Hopper

More of me comes out when I improvise.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Louis Nizer

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves,and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Hellen Keller

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

Latin Proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Author Unknown

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being.

William Cowper

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Robert Collier

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

James Boswell

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Author Unknown

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

Denis Diderot

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Author Unknown

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The holiest of all holidays are those
kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
the secret anniversaries of the heart.

Author Unknown

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

Thomas Moore, Irish Poet

The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Irish Proverb

May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, and tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all that your heart may desire.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.

Henry David Thoreau

All these expanding leaves and flower buds are much more beautiful in the rain, covered with clear drops. They who do not walk in the rain never behold them in their freshest and most radiant beauty.

Edward Hopper

More of me comes out when I improvise.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Swedish Proverb

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

Vincent van Gogh

The best way to know life is to love many things.

Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life - it is all within yourself and in your way of thinking.

Benjamin Mays

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.

Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.

Carl Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Author Unknown

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.