Stillness

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

- Lao Tzu

Peace

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

- Lester B. Pearson (14th Prime Minister of Canada)

This Generation

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.


- Jimmy Carter

Becoming More

What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization…It refers to the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for him to become actualized in what he is potentially. This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.
- Maslow

Blessings

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.


- Richard Bach

Joy

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

- Rumi

Family

In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.

- Alex Haley

Writing

If you would not be forgotten,
as soon as you are dead and rotten,
either write things worth reading,
or do things worth the writing.

- Benjamin Franklin

Educate Girls

Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in cities. But the girls stay home, become leaders in the community and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.


- Greg Mortenson (co-author, Three Cups of Tea)

Fear

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

- Christian Nevell Bovee

Lessons

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Love yourself, trust your choices,
and everything is possible.

- Cherie-Carter Scotts

Growing Up

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about.
The trick is to grow up without getting old.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Opportunities

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

- Sun Tzu

Hunger

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.


- Mahatma Gandhi

Perspective

One sees great things from the valley,

only small things from the peak.

- G. K. Chesterton

New Beginnings

We must be willing to get rid
of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed
before the new one can come.


- Joseph Campbell