What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach

I would rather live in a world
where my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
Buddha

Not everyday you get a view like this! Life is a journey, not a destination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings,
society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered.
Dalai Lama

The most beautifully infused peace,
sacred wisdom and harmony
is within’ all our hearts ♥
Take time to listen and feel ~
Victoria Peαce

Do not try to give either/or answers in a multiple-choice universe.
Robert Anton Wilson

When we see the Beloved in each person, it’s like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.
Ram Dass

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines.
Walt Whitman

Don’t limit your challenges – challenge your limits!

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus (4th century B.C.)

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours!
Richard Bach, Illusions

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William M. Thackeray

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

True love does not come by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
Jason Jordan

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert H. Humphrey

We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
Sandra Day O’Connor

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson

For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people’s love and concern for each other.
Millard Fuller

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.

“Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.
Wendell Berry

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London

To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem. Douglas P. Wheeler

When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin Franklin

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln, 1864

A society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.
John Sawhill, former president/CEO of The Nature Conservancy

We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth’s functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.
Father Thomas Berry

Use what talent you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Cicero

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God’s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.
George Washington Carver

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
Rachel Carson, (1907-1964) The Sea Around Us, 1951

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
Jesus, the Christ

As a human, the only weapon you have is kindness. Sacrifice, patience and forgiveness are the tripod on which kindness rests.
Yogi Bhajan

Try in thine own experience, each; that ye speak not for one whole day unkindly of any; that ye say not a harsh word to any, about any; and see what such a day would bring to you . . .
Edgar Cayce

Not knowing means to be open to all eventualities, to not prejudge a person or situation. If your mind is full of preconceived notions, there is no room for an unbiased view. It is like when your hands are full of objects – you cannot pick up anything new. A closed mind causes separation and suspicion. Like an umbrella, a mind is only useful when it is open.
From “Zen in the Workplace: Approach to Mindful Management”

Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. 
Helen Keller