Emerging from Suffering

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;

the most massive characters are seared with scars.

- Kahlil Gibran

Throw Open the Windows

The windows of my soul I throw

Wide open to the sun.

~John Greenleaf Whittier

Contemplate

All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand,

and you will see in it all the marvels of creation.

Listen to your heart.

It knows all things,

because it came from the Soul of the World,

and it will one day return there.

- Paulo Coelho

Beauty of the Soul

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul.

- Saint Augustine

Voyage Through Life

One ship sails east and another sails west

With the self-same winds that blow.

Tis the set of the sail and not the gale

Which determines the way they go.

As the winds of the sea are the ways of fate

As we voyage along through life,

Tis the act of the soul that determines the goal,

And not the calm or the strife.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox