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MORALITY

“Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi 

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.” ~ Immanuel Kant 

“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Obedience is doing what is told regardless of what is right.” ~  H. L. Mencken

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.” ~ Albert Einstein

“History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.” ~ James Anthony Froude 

“Wisdom is purified by morality, and morality is purified by wisdom: where one is, the other is, the moral man has wisdom and the wise man has morality, and the combination of morality of wisdom is called the highest thing in the world.” ~ Buddha

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” ~ William Faulkner 

“A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher 

“The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer 

“Compassion is the basis of morality.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer 
 
“The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.” ~ Sallust 

“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.” ~ Oscar Wilde 

“What can laws do without morals?” ~ Benjamin Franklin  

“Without freedom there can be no morality.” ~ Carl Jung

“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead 

“Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.” ~ William Hazlit

“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.” ~ Lewis Carroll 

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ~ Albert Camus 

“Ethics is a code of values which guide our choice and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.” ~ Ayn Rand

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.” ~ Confucius

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” ~ Lao Tzu

“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.” ~ Leo Tolstoy 

“We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.” ~ Desmond Tutu

“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.” ~ Albert Einstein

“A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher 

"In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock." ~ President Thomas Jefferson

“A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.” ~ Gandhi

“The moment you accept responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you gain the power to change anything in your life.” ~ Hal Elrod

“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.” ~ C.G. Jung

"Never be so focused on what you are looking for… that you overlook the thing you actually find." ~ Ann Patchett

"A society who rewards those who place more emphasis in their image rather than their moral integrity, will eventually find itself deteriorating from the inside out." ~ Benjamin Greene

“If you leave your children a world where you never stood up, they’ll inherit a world where they can’t.” ~ Unknown Author

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” ~ Frederick Douglass 

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” ~ G. Michael Hopf

“A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that captured your heart.” ~ Native American Proverb

“Charity is the root of all good works.” ~ St. Augustine 

“Modesty is the highest elegance.” ~ Coco Chanel

“A quiet consciousness sleeps in thunder.” ~ English Proverb

“Discipline yourself and others won’t need to.” ~ John Wooden

“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“Politeness is the flower of humanity.” ~ Joseph Joubert

“Kindness and positivity are contagious. Spread them freely.” ~ “Snoopy” George Shultz

“There is a courtesy of the heart. It is akin to love. Out of it arises the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.” ~ Johan Goethe

“Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purity, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.” ~ Edmund Burke

“The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.” ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol 

“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope has everything.” ~ Thomas Carlyle

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.” ~ Khalil Gibran

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” ~ Hearclitus

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~ George Bernard Shaw

“The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as you would like to be treated yourself. It is a fundamental ethical guideline found in many religions and philosophies, often expressed as ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ - Matthew 7:12” ~ Wikipedia

“Since most religions and philosophies have the ‘Golden Rule’ as part of their teachings, it would be great if they would only practice it in a greater way. Because if they did, the world be a Paradise.” ~ Sonam Dorje

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” ~ Plato

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ~ Ernest Hemingway 

“All the glory of greatness has no luster for people who are in search of understanding.” “Understanding begins where explanation ends.” ~ Blaise Pascal 

“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.” ~  Eliezer Yudkowsky

“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 and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.” ~ President John F. Kennedy 

“I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an ‘Honest Man’.” ~ President George Washington

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” ~ Pericles

“Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.” ~ Henry Longfellow

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PROVERBS

“A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Two footprints do not make a path.” ~ African Proverb
“If a blind man leads another, they both fall together.” ~ Swedish Proverb
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” ~ Old Proverb
“When the explorer is ready, the guide will appear.” ~ Nepalese Proverb
“It’s not enough to know how to ride, you must also know how to fall.” ~ Mexican Proverb
“Look before you leap.” ~ English Proverb
“A danger foreseen is half avoided.” ~ English Proverb
"A man’s greatest support is not the gods but his own two arms.” ~ African Proverb
“One finger cannot lift a pebble.” ~ Native American Proverb
“Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.” ~ Proverbs 12:11
“One that has wax as a head must not walk in the sun.” ~ Latin Proverb
“A lazy shepherd is a wolf’s friend.” ~ Welsh Proverb
“Better wear out shoes than sheets.” ~ Scottish Proverb
“The way you make your bed, is the way you shall lie.” ~ Swedish Proverb
“As you sow, so you shall reap.” ~ Galatians 6:7
“Labor is bitter but the bread it buys is sweet.” ~ Indian Proverb
“It’s too late to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.” ~ Norwegian Proverb
“When you’re thirsty it’s too late to think about digging a well.” ~ Japanese Proverb
“The day of the storm is not the time for thatching the roof.” ~ Irish Proverb
“Although it may rain, cast not away the watering pot.” ~ Malaysian Proverb
“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.” ~ Swedish Proverb
“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” ~ Old Proverb
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” ~ American Proverb
“If there is no wind, row.” ~ Latin Proverb
“A boat does not go forward if each man is rowing his own way.” ~ African Proverb
“Don’t change horses in mid-stream.” ~ Dutch Proverb
“When you are in the water you swim.” ~ Native American Proverb
“A drowning man will clutch a straw.” ~ English Proverb
“Do not push the river, it will flow by itself.” ~ Polish Proverb
“Not every spring becomes a stream.” ~ German Proverb
“During calm waters, every ship has a great Captain.” ~ Swedish Proverb
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“It is ill fishing if the hook is bare.” ~ Scottish Proverb
“A happy heart is better than a full purse.”~ English Proverb
“The best things in life are free.” ~ English Proverb
“Once I had strength but no wisdom; now I have wisdom but no strength.” ~ Persian Proverb
“The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one, in turn, looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth.” ~ African Proverb
“Speaking without thought is like shooting without taking aim.” ~ Spanish Proverb
“Surely the worth of a man lies in two of his smallest parts – his heart and his tongue.” ~ Egyptian Proverb
“Those who know do not speak, those who speak do not know.” ~ Japanese Proverb
“Action speaks louder than words.” ~ English Proverb
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” ~ Old Proverb 
“The loftiest towers rise from the ground.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Birds of a feather flock together.” ~ Old Proverb
“A bird never flew with one wing.” ~ Irish Proverb
“Before you start up a ladder, count the rungs.” ~ Jewish Proverb
“When all else fails… read the instructions.” ~ Old Proverb
“Empty sacks will never stand upright.” ~ Italian Proverb
“A leopard doesn’t change its spots.” ~ Jeremiah 13:23 
“Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.” ~ Japanese Proverb
“The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.” ~ Russian Proverb
“Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.” ~ Polish Proverb
"Men say time passes. Time says men pass." ~ Old Proverb
“To the happy no hour strikes.” ~ German Proverb
"Don't put all your eggs in one basket." ~ Old Proverb
“Don’t set the cart before the horse.” ~ English Proverb
"Don't bite the hand that feeds you." ~ Old Proverb
“The same dog that bit you in the morning will bite you in the evening.” ~ Jamaican Proverb
“Wood that grows warped can never be straightened.” ~ Greek Proverb
“The larger a man’s roof, the more snow it collects.” ~ Arabian Proverb
“Knock on the door before entering.” ~ Palestinian Proverb
“Visits always give a pleasure; if not the arriving, so the departing.” ~ Portuguese Proverb
“Woe to the stranger when trouble comes, for there will be no friend to take his part.” ~ Irish Proverb
“One has always strength enough to bear the misfortunes of one’s friends.” ~ French Proverb
“A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” ~ Irish Proverb
"A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue." ~ Russian Proverb
"Love is a two way street." ~ Old Proverb 
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” ~ English Proverb
“It is easy to frighten a bull from the window.” ~ Italian Proverb
“When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.” ~ African Proverb
“Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.” ~ Native American Proverb
“When there are no enemies within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~ African Proverb
“Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.” ~ Proverbs 16:3
“The lion who lives a life of compassion will receive it.” ~ Sumerian Proverb
“Never cut what can be untied.” ~ Portuguese Proverb
“He who ties well unties well.” ~ Spanish Proverb
“Where there is smoke there is fire.” ~ English Proverb
“Add not fire to fire.” ~ Greek Proverb
“A little oil may save a great deal of friction.” ~ English Proverb
“One who recovers from sickness forgets about God.” ~ African Proverb
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” ~ English Proverb
“Eat according to your provisions; walk according to the length of your step.” ~ Tibetan Proverb
“If you go to bed without supper, you will rise without having slept.” ~ Yiddish Proverb
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.” ~ Irish Proverb
"He who laughs last laughs loudest." ~ Old Proverb
“Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the root.” ~ Malaysian Proverb
“A tree is known by its fruit.” ~ Luke 6:43
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” ~ Greek Proverb
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Those who don't respect the past aren't worthy of the future.” ~ Dutch Proverb

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TRUTH

“Adversity is the first path to truth.” ~ Lord Byron

“Have the courage to face the truth” ~ W. Clement Stone

"All great truths begin as blasphemies." ~ George Bernard Shaw

“A radical is one who speaks the truth.” ~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.

“Truth does not change because it is or is not believed by a majority of the people.” ~ Giordano Bruno

“A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.” ~ David Stevens 

"They must find it difficult… those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority." ~ Gerald Massey

“A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of the truth.” ~ Albert Einstein

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.” ~ John F. Kennedy

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." ~ George Washington

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful.” ~ George Orwell

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." ~ Vladimir Lenin

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and it's speaker a raving lunatic." ~ Dresden Jones

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” “In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act. " ~ George Orwell

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." ~ Elvis Presley

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” ~ Buddha

“Truth can not be suppressed and always is the ultimate victor.” ~ Yajur Veda

“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.” ~ President George Washington

“For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light.” ~ Luke 8:17

“The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.” ~ St. Augustin

“The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.” ~ Georges Bataille

“When it is uncomfortable, when it is unpopular, even when it is dangerous to speak the truth… that is precisely the time that truth should be spoken.” ~ Unknown Author 

“In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow, and that is likely to hurt.” ~  Wei Wu Wei

“When the truth hurts, we always hate the messenger.” ~ Neil Shusterman

“The speaker of truth has no friends.” ~ African Proverb

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“People don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“It’s hard to accept the truth when the lies were exactly what you wanted to hear.” ~ Unknown Author

"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." ~ Demosthenes

"People only see what they are prepared to see." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it." ~ Patrick Henry

“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"The majority cannot reason; it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others; it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The masses have always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth." ~ Emma Goldman

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ~ Carl Sagan

“Have you ever noticed when explaining a deep subject, no matter how much evidence you provide to some people they will still fight you on it? Not because it’s wrong, but because it contradicts everything they’ve been taught. This is called ‘Cognitive Dissonance.’” ~ Author Unknown

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” ~ Aristotle 

“But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.” ~ Marilyn Monroe 

“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smooth pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” ~ Sir Isaac Newton

“There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien 

“People will get mad at you for speaking the truth… rather than being mad at the people who lied.” ~ Unknown

"The only people who are mad at you for speaking the truth are those people who are living a lie." ~ Gaskins Jr.

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.” ~ Tacitus

“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.” ~ Thomas Huxley 

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." ~ Leo Tolstoy

“It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Till the false is seen as the false… truth is not.” ~ Krishnamurti

“Moral anger based on truth is a virtue… a very high virtue.” ~ Jon Rappoport

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." ~ Soren Kierkegaard

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ~ Mark Twain

“If you are unwilling to question your own beliefs, you will never know if you are following the truth or lies.” ~ Author Unknown

“Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.” ~ Aristotle

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

“You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.” ~ Richard Feynman

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” ~ Chief Joseph

“A lie has many variations, the truth none.” ~ African Proverb

“Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.” ~ David Icke
 
"If the world is against truth, then I am against the world." ~ St. Athanasius

“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” ~ 1 Corinthians 3:19

“The pursuit of Truth is true devotion. It is the path that leads to God.” ~ Gandhi

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion.” ~ Ayn Rand

“There is no law higher than truth.” ~ Helena Blavatsky

“The truth shall set you free.” ~ John 8:32

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KNOWLEDGE

“Knowledge is power.” ~ Francis Bacon
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“Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.” ~ Panchatantra

“We don't see things the way they are; we see things the way we are.” ~ Anais Nin
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"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." ~ Albert Einstein

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” ~ Pema Chödrön

“Recognize that ‘unlearning’ is the highest form of ‘learning.’” ~ Rumi

“Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul.” ~ Walt Whitman

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ~ Aristotle

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.” ~ Socrates

“The fire of Knowledge burns all Karmas to ashes.” ~ Bhagavad Gita

“Self-knowledge is the basis of true knowledge.” ~ The Egyptian Book of the Dead

“Never utter these words: ‘I do not know this – therefore it is false.’ One must study to know, know to understand, understand to judge.” ~ Narada

"Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.” ~ John F. Kennedy

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” ~ Confucius

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.” ~ Daniel Boorstin

“Not Ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.” ~ Alfred North Whithead

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.” ~ Mark Twain

“The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.” ~ Robert Green Ingersoll 

“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.” ~ Thomas Edison

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.” ~ James Thurber

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“What harm in getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or an old slipper?” ~ Rabelais

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” ~ Samuel Johnson  

“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.” ~ Oscar Wilde 

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” ~ Confucius

“Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.” ~ Plato

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools; even as light, that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.” ~ Panchatantra

“To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Those who cannot understand the significance of symbols are blind to the truths hidden in plain site.” ~ Manly P. Hall

“For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.” ~ Franz Werfel

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” ~ Hosea 4:6

“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.” ~ Gerry Spence

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” ~ Richard Feynman

“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

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WISDOM

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” ~ Norman Cousins

“Wisdom comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.” ~ Mark Twain

“Wisdom rises upon the ruins of folly.” ~ Thomas Fuller

“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.” ~ George Santayana

“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.” ~ Agamemnon

“Wisdom is seeing wounds and obstacles as blessings.” ~ Maxime Lagacé

“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.” ~ Proverbs 4:7

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ~ Socrates

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.” ~ Voltaire

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” ~  Aristotle

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” ~ Socrates

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom.” ~ Augustine of Hippo

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” ~ President Thomas Jefferson

“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.” ~ Michel de Montaigne

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” ~ Lao Tzu

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” ~ Confucius

“If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.” ~ Cyril Connolly

“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.” ~ Leo Tolstoy

“It is said that wisdom lies in not seeing things, but seeing through things.” ~ Manly P. Hall

“The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.” ~ Maurice Maeterlinck

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” ~ Immanuel Kant

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.” ~ Cicero

“None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.” ~ Daniel 12:10

“Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.” ~ Bob Marley

“No man was ever wise by chance.” ~ Seneca

“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” ~ Marcel Proust

“He is not wise that is not wise for himself.” ~ English Proverb

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” ~ William Shakespeare

“A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.” ~ Pythagoras

“The heart of fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.” ~ Sophocles

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.” ~ Francis Bacon

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to conform to the ways of Heaven.” ~ Joseph Joubert

“Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.” ~ Jordan B. Peterson

“Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words.” ~ Smowhala, Wanapum

“Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing.” ~ Thiruvalluvar 

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CHARACTER

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” ~ Henry David Thoreau 

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” ~ John Wooden 

“The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.” ~ Jordan B. Peterson

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

“Only to the extent that we can expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.” ~ Pema Chodron

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln 

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.” ~ Thomas B. Macaulay  

"Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity & popularity." ~ William Arthur Ward 

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising every time we fall. A man is great not because he hasn’t failed. A man is great because failure hasn’t stopped him.” ~ Confucius

“There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.” ~ Joseph Curiale 

“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“Don't be afraid to fail… be afraid to not try.” ~ Michael Jordan

“Trying is failing with honor.” ~ James Arthur Ray 

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” ~ Elbert Hubbard

“The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.” ~ Lloyd Jones

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Sometimes the truest lives of all are lived by those who fail.” ~ Myron Hansford Veon

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude towards it, for that determines our success or failure. In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.” ~ Vincent Norman Peale

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” ~ Dale Carnegie

“Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.” ~ John Wooden 

“Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning.” ~ Paulo Coelho 

“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” ~ Mary Tyler Moore

“What some people label as “failures” in life, other people consider to be “Lessons in Self-Improvement.” ~ Unknown Author

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: The fear of failure.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” ~ Les Brown

“Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.” ~ Sivananda 

“After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.” ~ Benjamin Franklin 

“There is a Tibetan saying, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’” ~ Dalai Lama 

“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” ~ General George S. Patton 

“Do not try to be the best. Just do your best.” ~ Sadhguru

"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." ~ John Wooden

“The virtue lies in the struggle, not the prize.” ~ Richard Monckton Milnes

“There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.” ~ Franz Kafka 

“Don’t feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around.” ~ Edgar Cayce

“No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.” ~ Alexander Pope 

“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” ~ Carl Jung

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

“In the rolls of Heaven, where it will live a theme for angels when they celebrate the high-souled virtues which forgetful earth has witnessed.” ~ William Wordsworth

“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” ~ Nikola Tesla
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“History has shown us that people who end up changing the world are always nuts… until they are right and then they are geniuses.” ~ John Elliot
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“All great acts of genius began with the same consideration: Do not be constrained by your present reality. I awoke only to see that the rest of the world was still asleep.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” ~ President Teddy Roosevelt

“A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.” ~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ~ Napoleon Hill

“Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.” ~ Pio of Pietrelcina  

“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that’s just the place and time when the tide will turn.” ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” ~ Robert Fulghum 

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ~ Victor Hugo

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

“This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.” ~ Abdul Kalam 

“Nor deem the irrevocable past as wholly wasted, wholly vain… if rising on it’s wrecks at last to something nobler we attain.” ~ Henry Longfellow

“Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when the bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, her ashes new-create another heir as great in admiration as herself.” ~ William Shakespeare

“The ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ comes just before revelation. When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“To heal the wound, you have to go into the ‘Dark Night of the Soul.’” ~ Tori Amos

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” ~ Victor Hugo

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus

"Know thyself.” ~ Philosophical Greek Delphic-Maxim 

“Self-respect, that cornerstone of all virtue.” ~ John Herschel

“Above all things, reverence yourself.” ~ Pythagoras
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“To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” ~ William Shakespeare

“Can you remember who you were before the world told you what you should be?” ~ Danielle LaPorte
 
“It’s time to give up the idea of who you think you’re supposed to be… and start loving who you really are.” ~ Unknown Author
 
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
“There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.” ~ William Arthur Ward
 
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde
 
“You owe it to yourself to be yourself.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
 
“What you seek is seeking you.” ~ Rumi

“This Universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.” ~ Rumi

“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda 

“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.” ~  Krishnamurti

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” ~ Lao Tsu

“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.” ~ T. D. Jakes

“When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.” “Your sacred space is where you will find yourself over and over again.”~ Joseph Campbell

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ~ Rumi

"Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments." ~ Confucius 

“Be a friend to yourself and others will.” ~ Scotch Proverb
 
“To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the Stillness underneath the mental noice, the Love and Joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

“The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Who then is free? The wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.” ~ Horace  

“It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.” ~ Hans F. Hansen
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.” ~ Benjamin Spock 

“Dost thou reckon thy self only a puny form… when within thee the universe is folded.” ~ Baha’I Faith

“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!” ~ Eckhart Tolle 

“Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.” ~ Og Mandino 

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn’t.” ~ Richard Bach 

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CHANGE

“Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life.” ~ Alvin Toffler

“Every morning we are born again. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change lies your happiness and freedom.” ~ Buddha

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~ Rumi

“I am not what I once was.” ~ Horace

“Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!?” ~ Owen Meredith

“No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it is not the same river, and it is not the same man. There is nothing permanent except change.” ~ Heraclitus

“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out, and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” ~ Cynthia Occelli

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ~ Albert Einstein

“All things change, nothing perishes. Nothing is permanent in all the world. All things are fluent; every image forms, wandering through change.” ~ Ovid

“Things don't change, only the way you look at them.” ~ Carlos Castaneda 

“Humans are allergic to change.” ~ Grace Hopper

“A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.” ~ Dr. Peter Marshall

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” ~ Harold Wilson

“There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.” ~ Robert Kennedy

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ~ Anatole France 

“Great change begins with small steps taken at home.” ~  Amy Goodman

“A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.” ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.’” ~ Samuel Johnson

“It is best to endure what you cannot change. Whatever happens, assume that it was bound to happen, and do not be willing to rail at Nature. That which you cannot reform, it is best to endure, and to attend uncomplainingly upon the God under whose guidance everything progresses.” ~ Seneca the Younger

“Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” ~ St. Francis "Serenity Prayer"

“Nothing can remain static. Things are either moving forward or moving backward.” ~ Henry Ford

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~ Socrates

“Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.” ~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." ~ Confucius

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. If just blooms.” ~ Zen Shin

“A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” ~ James N. Watkins

"Do not rush anything. When the time is right… it will happen." ~ Buddha

“The Tao is never hurried... and yet nothing is left undone.” ~ Lao Tzu

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails.” ~ William Arthur Ward

“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.” ~ John Wooden

“The sane person constantly analyses the world of reality and then changes what’s inside his or her head to fit the facts. That’s an awful lot of trouble for most people. Besides, how many people want to constantly change their opinions to fit the facts? It’s a whole lot easier to change the facts to fit your opinions. Insane people make up their minds and they find the facts to “verify” their options. Or even more commonly, they accept the option of the nearest “expert” and then they don’t have to bother about the facts at all.” ~ Jack Trout

“A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.” ~ John F. Kennedy

“It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman 

“There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.” ~ Melody Beattie 

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ~ Marilyn Monroe 

“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.” ~ Margaret Wheatley

“No amount of guilt can solve the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.” ~ Unknown Author

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~ James R. Sherman

“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. ~ N. R. Narayana Murthy

“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” ~ John C. Maxwel

“Be the change you wish to see in this world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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NATURE

“Nature is the art of God.” ~ Dante Alighieri

“Going to the woods is going home; for I suppose we came from the woods originally.” ~ John Muir

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Bring out your social remedies! They will fail, they will fail, every one, until each man has his feet somewhere upon the soil.” ~ David Grayson 

“Commonly we stride through the out-of-doors too swiftly to see more than the most obvious and prominent things. For observing nature, the best pace is a snail’s pace.” ~ Edwin Way Teale

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.” ~ John Dewey

“Sail!” quoth the king: “Hold!” saith the wind.” ~ English Proverb

“Man masters nature not by force but by understanding.” ~ Jacob Bronowski

“Accuse not Nature! she hath done her part; Do thou but thine!” ~ John Milton

“You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.” ~ Hal Borland

“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blending and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity… and they will learn that death is stingless indeed and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.” ~ John Muir

“The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements — death.” ~ Andre Gide

“In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.” ~ Edwin Way Teale

“ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their functions and make no claim.” ~ Laozi 

“The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.” ~ George Santayana

“The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, “charm,” “spell,” “enchantment.” They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.” ~ G. K. Chesterton

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods. There is rapture on the lonely shore. There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep Sea, and Music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” ~ Lord Byron

“Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.” ~ Charles A. Lindbergh

“Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.” ~ Henry Beston

“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children.” ~ John Keats

“Earth being so good, would Heaven seem best?” ~ Robert Browning

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” ~ William Shakespeare

“Earth laughs in flowers.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” ~  Khalil Gibran

“Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand, and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.” ~ William Blake

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” ~ John Muir

“I long for scenes, where man hath never trod, a place where woman never smiled or wept — There to abide with my Creator, God, and Sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling, and untroubled where I lie, The grass below — above the vaulted sky.” ~ John Clare

“God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart!” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

“He who understands nature walks close with God.” ~ Edgar Cayce

“To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi 

“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.” ~ Rachel Carson 

“Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.” ~ Satish Kumar 

“For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.” ~ Alan Watts

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi 

“We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.” ~ Dalai Lama 

“Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.” ~ Henry Beston

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” ~ Edward Abbey

“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.” ~ Chief Seattle

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” ~ Native American Proverb

“There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.” ~ Brooke Medicine Eagle

"The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.” ~  Michael Josephson

“We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.” ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh
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“The world doesn’t want to be saved. It wants to be Loved. That’s how we save it.” ~ April Perrless

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth.” ~ Chief Seattle

“May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know it’s beauty all the days of your life.” ~ Apache Native American Blessing

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MYSTERY

“Mystery is not always about traveling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes.”~ Esther Perel

“Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.” ~ Julia Cameron

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” ~ Neil Armstrong

“It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.” ~ Antoine Rivarol

“Look at this life — all mystery and magic.” ~ Harry Houdini

“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the mysteries.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“I am a mystery to myself.” ~ Angelina Grimke

“And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.” ~ E. E. Cummings

“Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?” ~ Thomas Trahern

“Every branch of human knowledge if traced up to its source and final principles vanishes into mystery.” ~ Arthur Machen

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” ~ Nikola Tesla

“Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysterious of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it; both always, as to the measure of their creation, have had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.” ~ Robert Oppenheimer

“The universe is not to be narrowed down to the limits of our own understanding, which has been the practice up to now, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.” ~ Sir Francis Bacon

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” ~ Anais Nin

“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” ~ Henry Miller 

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” ~ William Shakespeare

“The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we can imagine.” ~ J.B.S. Haldane

“Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.” ~ Andre Gide

“Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.” ~ Bertrand Russell

“What is here, is there. What is not here is nowhere.” ~ Vishvasara Tantra

“The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.” ~ William James

“If existence had not been better than non-existence, there would have been no being.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

“Those who are acquainted with the Mysteries insure to themselves very pleasing hopes against the hour of death.” ~ Socrates

“One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The highest happiness of man… is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.” ~ Goethe

“There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries.” ~ Nathan Hill

“He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man’s mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from beginning to the end.” ~ Ecclesiastes 3:11 

“The Great Architect did wisely to conceal and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire.” ~ John Milton

“Great Mystery teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body and the blessings of my spirit. Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my Sacred Space and love beyond my fear and thus walk in balance with the passing of each glorious sun.” ~ Native American Prayer