By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
—Sharon Salzberg
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
—André Gide
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.
—John Green
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
—Henry David Thoreau
If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.
—David Shore
We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.
—Lucy Maud Montgomery
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.
—The Book of the Dead
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.
—John Abrams
Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.
—David Russell
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
—Thomas Browne
If you observe a really happy man, you will find… that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.
—W. Beran Wolfe
Just because this isn't in your life plan doesn't mean this isn't exactly where you're supposed to be.
—Nahnatchka Khan
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
—Oprah Winfrey
Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
—Mother Teresa
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.
—J. Arthur Thomson