Doubts arise from an absence of surrender.
—Ramana Maharshi
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
—Gandhi
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
—Immanuel Kant
The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.
—Martha Beck
Another thing that people must sacrifice is their suffering. It is also very difficult to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like, but he will not give up his suffering. Man is made in such a way that he is never so much attached to anything as he is to his suffering. And it is necessary to be free from suffering. No one who is not free from suffering, who has not sacrificed his suffering, can work. Later on, a great deal must be said about suffering. Nothing can be attained without suffering, but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering. Now, decipher what this means.
—Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff
Stop Thinking And End Your Problems.
—Lao Tzu
Out of this universe you cannot fall.
—Giordano Bruno
More often than not, you don’t know what you like. You like what you know.
—Wallace Stegner
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall—think of it, always.
—Mahatma Gandhi
We accept the graceful falling of mountain cherry blossoms, but it is much harder for us to fall away from our own attachment to the world.
—Ōtagaki Rengetsu
Two rules we should always have ready: (1) There is nothing good or evil save in the will. (2) We are not to lead events, but to follow them.
—Epictetus
Sell your cleverness, and purchase bewilderment.
—Jelaluddin Rumi
The best way out is always through.
—Robert Frost
If you can’t find the truth where you are, where else do you think you will find it?
—Dögen
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.
—Reinhold Niebuhr
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, just wait. Do not even wait, but be still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
—Franz Kafka
You are neither obligated to complete the work nor free to desist from it.
—Rabbi Tarfon
The basic falsehood—that we have the monopoly of all truth, just as our adversary for the moment has the monopoly of all error—is a lie.
—Thomas Merton
If you dislike someone, the way they hold their spoon will offend you, but if you like them, they could drop a plate of food on your lap and you wouldn’t be offended.
—Irving Becker
We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, and from this the Talmud commands us to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You always find excuses for your own misdeeds, so make excuses also for your neighbor.
—Baal Shem Tov
There is nothing that does not grow lighter through habit and practice.
—Shantideva
