We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it is possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Samuel Johnson

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Each difficult moment has the potential
to open my eyes and open my heart.


Myla Kabat-Zinn

Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows like a song. But the man worthwhile is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune.


Danish proverb

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

Indra Devi

To a mind that is still.
The whole universe surrenders.


Chuang Tzu

Listen in deep silence. Be very still and open your mind ... Sink deep into the peace that waits for you beyond the frantic, riotous thoughts and sights and sounds of this insane world.

A Course in Miracles

We do not need any metaphysics: we need to understand the simple little truth that the still small Voice is the power that destroys the illusions of this world.

Joel S. Goldsmith

Oh God,
make us children of quietness,
and heirs of peace.


St Clement of Alexandria

Solitude has to be a communion in something greater than the world, as great as Being itself, in order that in its deep peace we may find God.

Thomas Merton

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy one of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and in trust shall be your strength.

Isaiah 30:15

Rest in natural great peace This exhausted mind beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves In the infinite ocean of samsara.

Nyoshul Khenpo

O Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong and unyielding; I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

Bhagavad-Gita vi.34

When man closes his lips, it is then that God speaks.


Hazrat Inayat Khan

When love is strong, a man and woman can make their bed on a swords blade. When love grows weak, a bed of 60 cubits is not large enough.

The Talmud

Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing; a confusion of the real thing with the ideal thing never goes unpunished.

Goethe

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

Joseph Campbell

Husbands and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

Hari Dass

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex.

Simone Signoret

The web of marriage is made by propinquity in the day to day living, side by side, looking outward and working in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it; otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

David Reuben

Seldom or never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises. There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

C. G. Jung

Most married people must, to some extent, renounce certain parts of their personalities; they must sacrifice at the altar of marriage.

Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig

Love ceases to be a demon
only when he ceases to be a god.


M. Denis De Rougemont