“What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.”

– Boris Pasternak

“Keep your eyes on the stars,
and your feet on the ground.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power
the world will know peace.”

~ Jimi Hendrix

“True romance lies not in roses and candlelight, but in developing the patience, selflessness, and strength we need for rich relationships and for making a wiser, more meaningful contribution to all around us.”

~ Eknath Easwaran

“Accept-then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.”

-Eckhart Tolle
Power of Now

A man asked Buddha “I want happiness.”
Buddha said “first remove ‘I’ that’s ego. Then remove ‘Want’ that’s desire See now you are left with only ‘Happiness’.”

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”

- Peter T. Mcintyre

“All that appears is a blessing, a greater opportunity to define who you are and to know yourself as that.”

-Walsch

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands all alone.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.”

William Alexander

“We must not judge others. People are like flowers in the garden of God. Many are tightly closed buds, not giving of their beauty and fragrance; others are already full blown roses, souls open to the sun, receiving and giving light to all who pass by.”

—Elsie Sechrist

“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

– Robert Fulghum

“Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution. The Easiest way to escape from a problem is to solve it.”

~Rishika Jain

‎”Love does not consist of gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

- Antoine Saint-Exupery

“Speak when you are angry — and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”

Laurence J. Peter

“We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.”

~Taoist Proverb

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.”

–Henry David Thoreau

“life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass,
it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”

“Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.”

–Josie Bisset

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

Henry David Thoreau

“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”

Horace Walpole

“When we can treat all existing persons as human, it will be time enough to think about having more.”

― Athelstan Spilhaus

“Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn’t matter if someone dies. The more people there are, the less one individual matters.”

-Isaac Asimov

View a video on Overpopulation:
www.quotelotus.com/notes/616/7-billion-how-did-we-get-so-big-so-fast

“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”

- Peter T. Mcintyre

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”

Mark Twain

“Look not from the mind, but from the soul. For the Life that is coming is already before us, waiting to open up the world. Just look more closely. Find the eyes to see.”

- Celestine Prophecy

“Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.”

― Asha Tyson

‎”the whole purpose of every experience is to turn the human being inward and lead each of us back to our divine source.”

~ Eknath Easwaran

“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”

- Denis Waitley

Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty. For in traveling to a truly foreign place, we inevitably travel to moods and states of mind and hidden inward passages that we’d otherwise seldom have cause to visit.

PICO IYER

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

Albert Einstein

“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.”

– Gilda Radner