"World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not the absence of violence; peace is the manifestation of human compassion." 

-Dalai Lama XIV

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” 

-Rainer Maria Rilke

“Nourish your eye and spirit with inspiring things. They will bloom with your tending.”
-Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.” 

-Mary Oliver

"If you want to be happy, be." 
-Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

"Nothing, physical or mental, can give you freedom. You are free once you understand that your bondage is of your own making and you cease forging the chains that bind you."
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The Great Way has no gate; there are a thousand paths to it.” 
-Wumen Huikai

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
-Etty Hillesum

"All the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind." 
-Eckhart Tolle

"Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest." 

-Sri Chinmoy

"Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances." 

-Wayne W. Dyer

“Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.” 
-Morgan Scott Peck

“If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''” 

-Wayne W. Dyer

“There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.” 

-Thich Nhat Hanh

“Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.” 

-Carl Gustav Jung

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect." 

-Bruce Lee

"The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see." 

-Huang Po

"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

"Through meditation we can learn simple exercises to help us understand and control our thinking. We can learn to gain access to powers of spirit that connect us to realms of higher thinking and knowledge. Most importantly, we can learn the balance of mind and spirit that is so necessary to make life enjoyable and fruitful." 

-Randolph Winters

"Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out." 

-Eknath Easwaran