Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty: the joy of not knowing what comes next.

Ursula Leguin

When you are pushed - pull. When you are pulled - push. Find the natural course and bend with it, then you join with the power of nature.

Dan Millman

To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.

Leo Buscaglia

Life is a pretty precious and wonderful thing. You can not sit down and let it lap around you - you have to plunge into it, you have to dive through it.

Kyle Crichton

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. But do not be daunted. Do whatever it is because you know within it is right for you.

Eileen Caddy

Conformity leads to mediocrity. If the individual is to grapple with life, its intricacies, its miseries and sudden demands, he must be infinitely pliable, and therefore free of theories and particular patterns of thought.

Krishnamurti

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.

Gellert

The goal is to be an instrument of God. The more confident we are, the more intuition works through us.

Paul Neary

Allow life to be the theatre of God, in which what seems appropriate and necessary in your case will be accomplished spontaneously. You must trust the process of your own life.

Heart-Master Da love-Ananda

Find inner peace and you will have endless energy - the more you give, the more you receive. After you have found your calling, you work easily and joyously. You never get tired.

Peace Pilgrim

Nothing on earth can overcome
an absolutely non-resistant person.


Florence Scovel Shinn

In all activities of life from trivial to important the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states - a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

Aldous Huxley

There is no point in work unless it absorbs you like an absorbing game. If it does not absorb you, if it is never any fun, do not do it.

D. H. Lawrence

Simplicity is the highest quality of expression. It is that quality to which art comes in its supreme moments. It makes the final stage of growth. It is the rarest, as it is the most precious result which men secure in their self-training.

Lao Tzu

In the beginners mind there are many possibilities. But in the experts there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

In alchemy it is stated that whenever we define the space for which we are responsible, everything is given us within that space. It is as if the whole Universe comes down and sits at our feet ... ready to be used for Gods Plan on Earth.

Reshad Feild

How soon will you realise that the only thing you do not have is the direct experience that there is nothing you need that you do not have?

Ken Keyes

Do not exclude yourself from precious moments, warm encounters, beautiful attitudes, majestic discoveries, flowing intimacies and sensory development, for these are the jewels placed in the crown of your destiny.

Walter Rinder

Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet.


Roger Miller

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Silence is the language of God.
It is also the language of the heart.


Swami Sivananda

It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the Great Man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All mens miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

In solitude alone can be known true freedom.


Michael De Montaigne