First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.--Epictetus

Close your eyes and you will see clearly
Cease to listen and you will hear truth
Be silent and your heart will sing
Seek no contact and you will find union
Be still and you will move forward on the tide of the Spirit
Be gentle and you will need no strength
Be patient and you will achieve all things
Be humble and you will remain entire
- Swami Rama

-Marion Anderson
 

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”― Stephen Fry


“Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.” ― Thomas S. Monson

"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure."
~Charlie Chaplin

"One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can." - Frederick Buechner

"Optimist: Someone who figures out that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha."

-Robert Brault

I am still learning.--Michelangelo

I *heart* this poem
 

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond


somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands


e. e. cummings

“If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.”
― Mark Twain


“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” ― Patrick Ness


"I do not know everything; still many things I understand.” ― Madeleine L'Engle

Loved this, repeating...echo echo. :hangloose:

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist