"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

"Trust would settle every problem now." – A Course in Miracles

"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark."
– Rabrindranath Tagore

"Sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."
- Dalai Lama

"Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now." – Sri Yukteswar

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
– Mother Theresa

“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Gandhi

"Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births."
– Ramana Maharshi

"The unreal has no existence; the real never ceases to be. Knowers of truth have realized this." - Bhagavad Gita: ch.2 v.16

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God." - A Course in Miracles: Intro 2:2

"Act as if everything depended on you, but trust as if everything depended on God." - St. Ignatius

"Have faith in the way things are." - Tao Te Ching

"The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love." – A Course in Miracles

"Our enemies are our greatest teachers." - Dalai Lama

"Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship." - Dalai Lama

“Trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths.” – Proverbs 3, 5-6

“Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the Universe who accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done at the proper time. Don’t worry. Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the divine.” - Ramana Maharshi

“All things work together for good. There are no exceptions except in the ego's judgment.” - A Course in Miracles

“Don't be afraid to walk out on a limb, that's where the fruit is”
- Anonymous

"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space."
- Anonymous

"Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny."
- Mahatma Gandhi

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who are we to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others!” - Nelson Mandela

"Gratitude is heaven itself; there could be no heaven without gratitude."
- William Blake, English poet (1757 – 1827)

"Leap and the net will appear." – Julia Cameron

"Enlightenment is the ego's ultimate disappointment."
- Chogyam Trungpa

"Follow the three R's: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions." - Dalai Lama

"The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." - Mark Twain

"If you think you know much, you know little." – Upanishad

"There's only one thing better than making a living, making a life."
– anonymous

"If you only have enough money to buy a loaf of bread, think again. Buy half a loaf and a chrysanthemum. They will both feed you."
– old Chinese saying

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occured. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have dreamed would come his way.”
- W.H. Murray, from The Scottish Himalayan Expedition

"Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." – Mother Theresa

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."
– Mother Theresa

"A beautiful soul always dwells in a beautiful world."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you must, you can." - Jewish proverb

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
- Dr. Napoleon Hill

"When you lose, don't lose the lesson." – Dalai Lama

"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
- Mahatama Gandhi

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain

“Just as, when we touch a live wire, the electric force infuses itself into our body, when we deeply meditate on God the power of the whole universe seeks entry into our personality.”
- Swami Krishnananda, General Secretary, Divine Life Society

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” - Henry David Thoreau

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." – Carl Jung

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." – Oprah Winfrey

"I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself." - Ram Dass

"As the bee takes the essence of a flower and flies away without destroying its beauty and perfume, so let the sage wander in this life."
– Buddha

"Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything."
- Ramakrishna Paramahansa

“Respect is heaven, respect is liberation.” - Ramakrishna Paramahansa

“What you have is His gift to you, and what you do with what you have is your gift to Him.” - Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993)

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." – Albert Einstein

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us '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 to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." – Albert Einstein

" In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher."
- Dalai Lama

Hanuman said, "There is no misfortune other than ceasing to remember and adore you (Sri Rama)."
- Ramacharitamanas, Sundar Kanda verse 31

“Science sometimes runs the risk of not seeing the truth, because it does not want to know about miracles.” - Jacques Cousteau

“A person who studies astrology and divines the course of people’s destiny will never be found in hell. On the other hand, he will attain a permanent status in the world of Brahman.” – Brihat Samhita

"A life dedicated to the service of humanity is true life. "
– Swami Ramdas

“Truth is not afraid of questions.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

“Man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without.”
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

“As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord’s name.”
- Sri Sarada Devi

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
- Albert Einstein

“To enter into the spiritual life is a rare blessedness, it is a great good: to take it seriously and engage in active spiritual Sadhana is a second blessedness and a still greater good: but to persevere in the spiritual life, to be ever progressive and ceaseless in one’s spiritual life, is the greatest good, the crowning blessedness.” - Swami Chidananda

”The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Almost anything that you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Mahatma Gandhi

“Forgiveness is a great power. Forgiveness is a virtue of the weak, and an ornament of the strong. Forgiveness subdues all in this world; what is there that forgiveness cannot achieve?” - The Mahabharata

Serenity prayer: “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

"Let the knocks you get in life turn you more and more towards God"
- Swami Ramdas

“The power of the Spirit is invincible. It can stem the tide of every other power that seeks to generate chaos and confusion in the world."
– Swami Ramdas

"You are a veritable store-house of Divine energy. Open the store and let the eternal splendour that burns within you radiate its light out and dispel the deepening gloom in the world.” – Swami Ramdas

“No action of any planet or any of the phases of the Sun, Moon or any of the heavenly bodies surpass the rule of man's individual will power."
– Edgar Cayce

”We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born.” – Carl Jung

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are two ways to live, one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is.” - Albert Einstein

"The whole world lives within a safeguarding: Fish inside waves, birds held in the sky. All subsist, exist, are held in the Divine. Nothing is alone for a single moment." - Jalaluddin Rumi, mystic poet (1207-1273)

"Astrology is merely reading the karmic pattern which has a link with the past life(s) and also with the future life(s). The karmic pattern is woven skillfully in a horoscope, so as to indicate the balance of karmas that the native is carrying as well as his mission or task in this life."
- K.N. Rao

"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The light of God surrounds you, the love of God enfolds you, the power of God protects you, the presence of God watches over you, wherever you are God is, and all is well." - Unity Prayer

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman

"Let the beauty you love be what you do ... there are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
- Jalaluddin Rumi, mystic poet (1207-1273)

"Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God."
- Tielhard de Chardin

"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing." – Arthur Ashe

“India is the cradle of the human race, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grandmother of tradition. The most valuable and the most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.” - Mark Twain

“When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fail. Think of this always." - Mahatma Gandhi

“In a time of darkness, you don’t curse the darkness, you light a candle.” - Al Gore

“God does not play dice with the universe; there is an order and reason for all of life.”- Albert Einstein

"Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact."
- Norman Vincent Peale

"You suppose you are the trouble but you are the cure. You suppose that you are the lock on the door but you are the key that opens it."
- Jalaluddin Rumi, mystic poet (1207-1273)

"Fate and free will are equally powerful forces. Yet I consider free will more important, because it is our conscious choices that create our fate."
- Veda Vyasa

"The best way to find your self is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi

“One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.” – Ramana Maharshi

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borges

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Walk over the earth for the blessing of many, for the happiness of many, out of compassion for the world, for the welfare and the blessing and the happiness of gods and men.” – Buddha

"Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom."
– Buddha

"Now is the closest approximation of eternity that this world offers. It is in the reality of now, without past or future, that the beginning of the appreciation of eternity lies."
- A Course In Miracles

“Nothing is worth more than this day."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever."
– A Course in Miracles

"You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and others totally without judgment."
– A Course in Miracles

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
– Mother Theresa

"In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience."
– Thomas Merton

"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth." - Mark Twain

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt in the heart."- Helen Keller

"You are what your deep driving desire is. As you desire, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny."
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV:4,5

"In love were you created and in love will you remain forever. What can you fear when you let all things be exactly as they are?"
– A Course in Miracles

"When you must, you can." - Jewish proverb

"Serving hands are dearer to God than praying lips." - Anonymous

"We don't get wounded alone and we don't heal alone." - Carl Jung

"Never explain yourself. It tires your friends, and your enemies won't believe you." – Abe Lincoln