"There is no meaning in life, except the meaning you put into it"
~ Aasa ;-)
"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
"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle."
-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
-"Sister" Elizabeth Kenny
"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
"What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
-Chief Seattle
"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in life has a purpose."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
"Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them."
-David Hume
"The whole of life, from the moment you are born
to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln
"You are the people who are shaping a better world.
One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion."
-Dalai Lama
"For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God,
not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition?
Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'?
Heaven is neither a place nor a time."
-Florence Nightingale
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it,
no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense."
-Buddha
"If something comes to life in others because of you,
then you have made an approach to immortality."
-Norman Cousins
"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
"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul;
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all."
-Emily Dickinson
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
-Henry Vandyke
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
-Kahlil Gibran
"Time is
Too slow for those who Wait,
Too swift for those who Fear,
Too long for those who Grieve,
Too short for those who Rejoice,
But for those who Love
Time is not."
-Henry Vandyke
"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
"Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein
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