“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.” 

-Mary Theresa Schmich

"Those who wish to sing, always find a song."
-Swedish Proverb

"Look at everything as if you were seeing it either for the first or last time." 
-Betty Smith

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of the virtues but the parent of all others.” 

-Cicero

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
-George Eliot

"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless." 

-Pema Chödrön

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." 

-Dalai Lama XIV

"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

"I realized that maybe you can't change the world by your actions alone, but you can change yourself. And when you did, the world around you might also change in the very act of attempting to understand you, just as we all try to understand each other." 
-Dr. John Francis

"If we read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts." 

-Rajiv Mehrotra

"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

"Wisdom and compassion flow from simplicity and clarity; from having nothing to prove and nothing to defend."
-Barry Magid

“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.” 

-Pema Chödrön

"Meditation on the majestic energy of the universe should increase our love for humanity, should widen, not narrow, our hearts." 
-Richard Holloway

"In the face of beauty, we are silenced, because beauty expresses silence." 

-Ian Roberts

"The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom." 
-Edgar Lee Masters