“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
—Mother Teresa
December 2011
66 posts
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
—Margaret Atwood
November 2011
122 posts
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
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If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you,
I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul.
If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door,
I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more.
If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice,
I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again.
If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you,
and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
“The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes.”
—Pema Chödrön
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.”
—Margaret Atwood
“You know that moment that comes when the last tear falls? The one when you realize that your worst fears have come to light and you’re still breathing? Never forget the moment you look into the mirror and into your red eyes and see that you aren’t broken or weak or lost at all.”
—unknown
“The day will come when,
after harnessing the winds, the tides and graviation,
we shall harness for God the energies of love.
And on that day,
for the second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire.” —Teilhard de Chardin
after harnessing the winds, the tides and graviation,
we shall harness for God the energies of love.
And on that day,
for the second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire.” —Teilhard de Chardin
“Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.”
—Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
“Follow my tracks in the sand that lead
Beyond thought and space.” —Hafiz
Beyond thought and space.” —Hafiz
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
—Dalai Lama
“Show me a day when the world wasn’t new”
—Sister Barbara Hance
“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.” —Nisargadatta Maharaj
love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves.” —Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Pressure is nothing more than the shadow of great opportunity.”
—Michael Johnson
“Entertaining a notion, like entertaining a baby cousin or entertaining a pack of hyenas, is a dangerous thing to refuse to do. If you refuse to entertain a baby cousin, the baby cousin may get bored and entertain itself by wandering off and falling down a well. If you refuse to entertain a pack of hyenas, they may become restless and entertain themselves by devouring you. But if you refuse to entertain a notion - which is just a fancy way of saying that you refuse to think about a certain idea - you have to be much braver than someone who is merely facing some blood-thirsty animals, or some parents who are upset to find their little darling at the bottom of a well, because nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself.”
—Lemony Snicket
“Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
—Lao Tzu
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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
“A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure that I have received and am still receiving.”
—Albert Einstein, What I Believe
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.”
—Sylvia Plath
“There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre
