Every beauty which is seen here below by persons
of perception resemble more than anything else that celestial
source from which we all are come...
-Michelangelo
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
-Walt Whitman
Heaven will be inherited by every man
who has heaven in his soul.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-Albert Einstein
My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.
-William Wordsworth
What else is nature but God?
-Seneca
The superior reasoning power...revealed in the
incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
-Albert Einstein
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine
In my Father's house are many mansions.
-The Bible, John 14:2
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves
that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only
if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
-Grandma Moses
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart.
-Helen Keller
You are the people who are shaping a better world.
One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.
-Dalai Lama
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn
again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties
to know of wonder and humility.
-Rachel Carson
Those things that nature denied to human sight,
she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
-Ovid
Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
-Norman Vincent Peale
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
-Walt Whitman
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more:
women, their rights and nothing less.
-Susan B. Anthony
The soul should always stand ajar.
Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
-Emily Dickinson
Where'er a noble deed is wrought,
Where'er is spoken a noble thought,
Our hearts in glad surprise
To higher levels rise.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
-Jonas Salk
Live Large!
-Don Pendleton
You cannot play the game of life with sweaty palms.
-"Dr. Phil," Phillip C. McGraw
If something comes to life in others because of you,
then you have made an approach to immortality.
-Norman Cousins
Follow your bliss.
-Joseph Campbell
I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut
they will give up their secrets...
-George Washington Carver
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
-Oprah Winfrey
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
-Mother Teresa
When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we do
not see the one which has been opened for us.
-Helen Keller
Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul;
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all.
-Emily Dickinson
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place
by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.
Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.
-Abraham Lincoln
Faith furnishes prayer with wings,
without which it cannot soar to Heaven.
-St. John Climacus
It is my conviction that it is the intuitive, spiritual aspects
of us humans-the inner voice-that gives us the 'knowing,'
the peace, and the direction to go through the windstorms of life,
not shattered but whole, joining in love and understanding.
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-Kahlil Gibran
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe,
so no thought or action is without its effects,
present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
-Norman Cousins
It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
-"Sister" Elizabeth Kenny
Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God
speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.
-George Washington Carver
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But railing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
-William Wordsworth
When you see your brother, you see God.
- St. Clement of Alexandria
As a tale, so is life; not how long
it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
-Seneca
The soul is not where it lives but where it loves.
-Thomas Fuller
There is another reality enfolding ours-as close as our breath!
-Don Pendleton
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
-Helen Keller
Conscience is God's presence in man.
-Emanuel Swedenborg
The veil that clouds your eyes shall
be lifted by the hands that wove it.
-Kahlil Gibran
The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
-Thomas Carlyle
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
- Japanese Proverb
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Han