Quotations

"A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty  - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude;
in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man."

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

"Only a life lived for others is worth living."

"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player."

- Albert Einstein

"A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science,
might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.
Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge."

"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

- Carl Sagan

"Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resemble more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come...."

-Michelangelo

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it"

"The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true."

- Marcus Aurelius

"At the center of the universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service."

- Fred Rogers

"The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

-Jiddu Krishnamurti

"The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness."

-John Muir

"You are the people who are shaping a better world. One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion."

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

- the 14th Dalai Lama

"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle."

-Walt Whitman

"So many gods, so many creeds;

So many paths that wind and wind,

While just the art of being kind

Is all the sad world needs."

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."

-Chief Seattle

"All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind."

-Albert Schweitzer

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

 -Norman Cousins

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for.'

 - John Lubbock

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility."

-Rachel Carson