My Favorite Quotes

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

"Love everyone, and tell the truth." - Maharaji

"There is no past, there is no future, there is only the now." - Buddhist saying

"I am what I am." - P. T. Sailorman

"My religion is to live--and die--without regret." - Milarepa, Tibetan poet

"There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings." - Dostoevski

"When you forget all your dualistic ideas, everything becomes your teacher, and everything can be the object of worship." - Shunryu Suzuki

"We need to ask ourselves not what do we expect from life, but rather, what does life expect from us". - Viktor E. Frankl

"Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you." - Unknown

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood." - Stephen Covey

"Become the change you seek." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Judge not, that ye be not judged." - Matthew 7:1

"Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself." - Shunryu Suzuki

"Whiskey River don't run dry..." - Willie Nelson

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Viktor E. Frankl

"But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you," - Matthew 5:44

"Our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well." - Stephen Covey

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson