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Various Quotes I've Collected

We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. --Thich Nhat Hanh.

Where there is injustice I always believe in fighting. The question is, do you fight to change things, or do you fight to punish? For myself, I've found we're all such sinners that we should leave punishment to God. --Gandhi

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. --Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our Lord is not demanding that we discard our estate and get rid of our money. What he does ask is that we banish from our souls the primacy of riches, of unfettered greed and feverish desire for them, the thorns of this life, which suffocate the seed of true life. [In reference to the biblical story of Jesus telling the rich man to sell all he had and give it to the poor] --St Clement of Alexandria

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts and that is where all our battles ought to be fought. --Gandhi

Everywhere, by all means imaginable, people are striving to improve their lives. Yet strangely, my impression is that those living in materially developed countries, for all their industry, are in some ways less satisfied, are less happy, and to some extent suffer more than those in the least developed countries. Indeed, if we compare the rich with the poor, it often seems that those with nothing are, in fact, the least anxious, although they are plagued with physical pain and suffering. [The rich] are so caught up in the idea of acquiring still more that they make no room for anything else in their lives [so] they actually lose the dream of happiness. --The Dalai Lama

Those who are motivated only by desire for the fruits of action are miserable, for they are constantly anxious about the results of what they do. - -Bhagavad Gita 2:49

I hold that to need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach divinity. -- Socrates

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. -- Aldo Leopold

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. -- Martin Luther King

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. -- Martin Luther King

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. -- Blaise Pascal

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -- Plato

There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi

A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW ...it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... ...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child. -- Kathy Davis

From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax, to be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth. -- Thich Nhat Hanh

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children, to earn the approbation of honest critics; to appreciate beauty; to give of one's self, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--that is to have succeeded. -- (attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson or Bessie Stanley)

What's the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? --Henry David Thoreau

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created -- created first in mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place that we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination. -- John Schaar

We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman happens to the human. What happens to the outer world happens to the inner world. If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of the clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human. --Thomas Berry

The Earth says: rejoice! You have been born into a world of self-maintaining abundance and incredible beauty. Feel it, taste it, be amazed by it. --Donella Meadows

It is inevitable I will have repeat quotes on various pages. I sure hope there aren't oo many on here.

I plan on moving these around and into their own categories on different pages, but for now they are all here.

"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad..." ~Herodotus, Greek author

"To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment." ~Jane Austen

"If you can attain repose adn calm, beleive that you have seized happiness." ~Julie-Jeanne-Eleonaore de Lespinasse, French author

"I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace." ~Joseph Conrad, novelist

"There is no condition of Life without its Cares, and it is the Perfection of a Man to wear 'em as easy as he can." ~Susanna Cantilvre, playwright and actress

"Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you." ~Catherine de Hueck Doherty, writer

"What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile." ~George Asaf, British songwriter

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone...The wisdom of life consists in elimination of nonessentials." ~Lin Yutang, Chinese writer and educator

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist

"Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important." ~Natalie Goldberg, author and writing instructor

"When we are unablt to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." ~La Rochefoucauld, French writer

"We spend most of our time and energy thinking in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things..[but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper." ~James Carroll, novelist

"We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies." ~Etty Hillesum, author

"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing." - Publilius Syrus

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - author unknown

"The Self is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere." - C.G. Jung

"The whole problem is to establish communication with one's self." - E.B. White

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley

"The all knowing Self was never born, nor will it die. Beyond cause and effect, this self is eternal and immutable. When the body dies, the Self does not die. If the slayer believes that he can kill, And the slain believes that he can be killed, Neither knows the truth. The eternal Self slays not, nor is ever slain." - The Upanishads

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. - Lao Tzu

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." - C. G. Jung

"Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth." - The Buddha

"Our Own Heart, And Not Other Men's Opinion, Form Our True Honor." - Samuel Coleridge

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is." - Isaac Asimov

"You, yourself, must make the effort. The Buddhas are only teachers." - Buddhist proverb

"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes & cry that it is dark." - Swami Vivekananda

"Most of the shadows of life come from your own self blocking the sun." - James Pickett

"Many of us spend our whole lives trying to find ourselves, forgetting the fact that we ARE ourselves." - Joe Viscomi

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." - C. G. Jung

"The universe didn't give us five precious senses to waste them for tv or the internet." - Hans Taeger

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Simplicity of all things, is the hardest to be copied." - Sir Richard Steele

"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge." - Winston Churchill

"Anyone who remembers the 60's wasn't there!" - Stephen Stills, of Crosby Stills Nash & Young

"The nature of mind is like empty space, like the sky, which at present is filled with clouds and fog and mist and periodically has all kinds of activity such as hailstorms, snowstorms, rainstorms and thunder and lightning." - Kalu Rinpoche

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword." - Charles Reade

"If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook." - Les Giblin

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside." - Denis Wait

"Those secret smiles with the heart can be much more enjoyable than those which show in the face." Hans Taeger

"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular." - Adlai Stevenson

"The grass must bend when the wind blows across it." - Confucius

"Solitude is the beginning of all freedom." - William O. Douglas

"Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems." - Lama Thubten Yeshe

"We are spirits with clothes on!" - Amber Jayanti

"We are not Human Beings seeking a Spiritual Experience... We are Spiritual Beings involved in a Human Experience." - author unknown

"There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same." - Chinese Proverb

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." - Edith Wharton

"A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But IN you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead." - R. M. Rilke

"Gray skies are just clouds passing over." - Duke Ellington

"The universe is made of stories, not atoms.". - Muriel Rukeyser

"Think of strangers as friends you not met yet." - Abraham Lincoln

"It is better to be a small stream, than a deep ditch." - Chinese Saying

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - A. Einstein

"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood." - Elbert Hubbard

"Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying (one might say 'supernatural') plan." - Arno Penzias

"When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half." - Gracie Allen

"When the student is ready... the lesson appears." - Gene Oliver

"Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself." - Galileo

"A great teacher never strives to explain his vision - he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself." - R. Inman

"One good teacher outweights a ton of books." - Chinese proverb

"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number." - Edith Armstrong

"Act like a man of thought - Think like a man of action." - Thomas Mann

"A moment's thinking is an hour in words." - author unknown

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." - The Buddha

"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself." - Plato

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

"If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist." - Julian Barbour

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." - author unknown

"Time is not a line, but a series of now-points." - Taisen Deshimaru

"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away." - Ben Hecht

"The best way to save some time is to use it." - Carl Hammar�n

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz

"Time is not money, but a free gift to brighten up one's karmic career." Hans Taeger

"....the unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all." - C. G. Jung

"The past, the present and the future are one; they are your today." - author unknown

"Yesterday is experience, tomorrow is hope, today is getting from one to the other as best we can." - author unknown

"If you think to long on your next step, you will end up in life standing on one leg." - Chinese Proverb

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." - H. Jackson Brown

"When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed." - Indra Devi

"True Understanding is Transcendence." - author unknown

"Spiritualty is often connected with a special sense and attraction for beauty, arts or an aesthetic environment. But on a higher level the mind in unity with the heart can develop the potential to transform even the most ugly and dirty looking thing into a firework of beauty and perfection." Hans Taeger

"The mind can travel everywhere. Why use the body to travel somewhere?" - Hans Taeger

"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously." - Thomas Sowell

"Truth has no special time of it's own. It's hour is now ... always." - Albert Schweitzer

"Love truth but pardon error." - Voltaire

"Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times." - C.G. Jung

"What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing." - Louis L'Amour

"To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is formidable." - Chinese Saying

"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." - R. I. Fitzhenry

"The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge." - C. G. Jung

"The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases." - C. G. Jung

"The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded." - C. G. Jung

"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy." - Carl Sagan

"Much learning does not teach understanding." - Heraclitus

"Therefore it is said that the whole universe is just an illusion unless you immediately... attain the mystic path... seeing through wordly troubles, forgetting all about subject and object... If you effectively understand thus, it will make you happy for life." - Hui-Lin

"He, knowing all, becomes the All." - The Upanishads

"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are there." - Yasutani Roshi

"There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all.... It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature's numbers to make the Universe... The impression of design is overwhelming". - Paul Davies

"The laws of physics... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose". - Paul Davies

"Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory." - Arthur Eddington

"Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe." - Socrates

"An infinite universe is at each moment opened to our view. And this universe is the sign and symbol of Infinite Power, Intelligence, Purity, Bliss, and Love." - William Ellery

"The universe was born restless and has never since been still." - Rousseau

"If you seek to understand the whole universe you will understand nothing at all but seek to understand yourself and you will understand the the whole universe." - Druidic Axiom

"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the combination is locked up in the safe." - Peter DeVries

"If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll believe you. But if you tell him a parkbench has just been painted, he has to touch it to be sure." - Lynn

"The mind of man is capable of anything -- because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future." - Joseph Conrad

"My belief is that to have no wants is divine." - Socrates

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves." - Carl G. Jung

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value." - Albert Einstein

"We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view." - Mao Tse-Tung

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it." - David Starr Jordan

"Visa-cards can't buy wisdom!" Hans Taeger

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare." - Japanese proverb

"As soon as one's mind is known to be of the Wisdom of the Voidness, concepts like good and evil karma cease to exist. Seek, therefore, thine own Wisdom within thee. It is the Vast Deep." - Guru Padmasambhava

"Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply have to acknowledge or recognize what is." - Tsoknyi Rinpoche

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' " - George Bernard Shaw

"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world." - G. B. Shaw

"Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body." - La Rochefoucauld

"Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot." - Balthasar Gracian

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information." - T. S. Eliot

"It needs an extreme life or a very still one to develop heart-generated wisdom." - Hans Taeger

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." - Sophocles

"Wisdom is one of the few things one can't buy. Must be a thorn in the flesh of industry!" - Hans Taeger

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." - Andrew Carnegie

"The journey is the reward." - Chinese Proverb

"I give myself very good advice But I very seldom follow it." - Alice, Alice in Wonderland

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." - Walter Lippmann

"As the light of a torch illumines the objects in a dark room, even so the light of wisdom illumines all men, whosoever they may be; if they turn towards it." - Fo shu-hing-tsan-king

"Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy." - Aquinas

"The wise man knows without traveling." - Lao-Tsze

"A wise man hears one word and understands two." - author unknown

"A wise mind is a loving mind." - author unknown

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions." - author unknown

"We get old too soon and wise too late." - author unknown

"If you find you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today." - author unknown

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James

"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely." - Sir William Osler

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To wonder is to begin to understand." - Jose Ortega y Gasset

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."- Gerry Spence

"Words without action are the assasins of idealism." - Herbert Hoover

"Words were invented to describe inner and outer pictures and feelings which go ahead with them. In using words we all become magicians, movie directors or sound artists, creating a powerful caleidoscope of picturesque landscapes and imaginations. Some find this natural. I find it highly magical and mystical." Hans Taeger

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."- Cyril Connolly

"Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip." - Lama Thubten Yeshe