Quote Collection

I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.
-14th Dalai Lama

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
- Adyashanti

The biggest embrace of love you'll ever make is to embrace yourself completely. Then you'll realize you've just embraced the whole universe, and everything and everybody in it.
- Adyashanti

The truest knowing is to be able to perceive without abstraction—purely, simply. This is what the world is crying for.
- Adyashanti

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank

My philosophy is: it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.  I am what I am and I do what I do.  I expect nothing and accept everything.  And it makes life so much easier.  
- Anthony Hopkins

Start where you are.  Use what you have.  Do what you can.
- Arthur Ashe
 
Forgetting oneself, one discovers oneself.
-B.K.S. Iyengar  

The stone that the builder refused will always be the head cornerstone.
- Bob Marley

We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
- Byron Katie


Life without a future is magical.
- Byron Katie

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.
- Charles Simic

Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love.  This is an unalterable law.
-The Compassionate Buddha 

I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much. –Emery Allen, We think. We dream.


As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world . . . as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Gandhi

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Don't ask yourself what the world needs.  Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman


Love is the answer, at least to most of the questions in my heart.
Like, why are we here? and where do we go? and how come it's so hard?
- Jack Johnson


There's only just a fine line
between
alone and all one.
- Joules Graves


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.
- Lao Tzu

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. 
If you are anxious, you are living in the future. 
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
- Lao Tzu

Quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. 
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. 
If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. 
- Lao Tzu


The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin


Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware.
- Martin Buber


Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.  For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.  And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what i ought to be.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.


See where your own energy wants to go, not where you think it should go. Do something because it feels right, not because it makes sense. Follow the spiritual impulse.
- Mary Hayes-Grieco


You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
― Maya Angelou

Wisdom is knowing i am nothing,
love is knowing i am everything,
and between the two my life moves.
- Nisargadatta 

Most of us go through life with blinders on.  Knowing only that little station to which we were born.  But you madam, have had the... rare privilege of escaping your bonds for just a spell. To see life from an entirely new perspective. How you choose to use that information is entirely up to you.
- Overboard '87, Andrew the Butler

The meaning of life is to find your gift.  The purpose of life is to give it away.
-Pablo Picasso

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
- Patanjali

If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it.  We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility.  That’s the true practice of peace.
- Pema Chodron 

The next time you lose heart and you can't bear to experience what you're feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering - yours, mine, and that of all living beings.
- Pema Chodron

Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.  
- Po Bronson


Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field.  I will meet you there.
- Rumi

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
-Rumi 

You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.
- Rumi 

Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers
within yourself that you have built against it.
- Rumi 

Death has nothing to do with going away.
The sun sets
The moon sets
but they are not gone.

- Rumi

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.
- Sigmund Freud

With great power comes great responsibility.
- Spiderman

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire

Do I contradict myself?
Very well, then I contradict myself.
I am large, I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman 


If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
- Wayne Dyer

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Love is my religion
- Ziggy Marley