Tranquility

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.


- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Difficulties

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.


-William Ellery Channing

Reason

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear.


- Jean Paul Richter

Follow Your Heart

Follow your heart like a flying stallion
Race with the sun to the edge of night
Form your truth like a gold medallion
Dance in the circle of the love and the light.

- Denver, Henry, Sommers, Weisberg

All Good Things

Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;

And all good things are yours.

- Anonymous

Father

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

Beauty

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

- Marie Stopes

Web of Life

The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected, like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

- Chief Seattle, (US) Divamish Indians

Possibilities

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

- Robert Browning

Purpose of Life

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson