Favorite saying

• ""If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you." -Henry Rollins "Reason is powerless in the expression of Love." -Rumi "The only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." -Socrates "When I saw you I fell in love and you smiled because you knew." -Arrigo Boito "A great man is always willing to be little." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception." -Soren Kierkegaard "There is no remedy for love but to love more." -Henry David Thoreau "There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise." -Jack London "What labels me, negates me." -Søren Kierkegaard "It is never too late to give up your prejudices." -Thoreau "The greatest greatness and the greatest humility go hand in hand, naturally and without effort." -Meher Baba "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light." -St. John of the Cross "What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." -Crowfoot "Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." -Einstein "Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others." -Meher Baba "The most common form of despair is not being who you are." -Søren Kierkegaard "Service is the solution of the entire vexatious problem of man." -Jack London "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "A man only becomes wise when he tries to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance." -Gian Carlo Menotti "To be able to say how much you love, is to love but little." -Petrarch "All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self." -Edgar Cayce "People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me." -Søren Kierkegaard "The Earth laughs in flowers." -Emerson "Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism." -Freud "Only he who is truly great can be really humble." -Meher Baba “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” -Rumi "In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true." -Buddha "Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer, do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see." -Søren Kierkegaard "Life is continuous, and is infinite." -Edgar Cayce "love needs no propaganda." -love "If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know." -Edgar Cayce "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe "Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." -Rumi "People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value." -Einstein "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them." -St. John of the Cross "Let your life itself be my message of love and truth to others." -Meher Baba "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." -Vincent van Gogh "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel." -Socrates "The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference toward one's neighbor who lives at the roadside assaulted by exploitation, corruption, poverty and disease.” -Mother Theresa "For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them." -Thích Nhất Hạnh "Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation." -Rumi "No one has ever become poor by giving." -Anne Frank "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." -Vicki Corona "Things that are real are given and received in silence." -Meher Baba "In the evening of life we will be judged by love alone." -St. John of the Cross "It is not the length of life, but the depth." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -Carl Sagen "If you can't explain it simply, then you don't understand it well enough." -Einstein "You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free." -Thích Nhất Hạnh "Architecture begins where engineering ends." -Walter Gropius "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." -Winston Churchill "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks inside awakens." -Carl Jung "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." -Dalai Lama "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." -Albert Einstein "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." -Thoreau "If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to help others, we are loving God." -Meher Baba "When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money." -Cree prophecy "If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change." -Buddha "If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere." -Vincent van Gogh "The warrior, for us, is the one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity." -Sitting Bull "There are only two ways to live your life, one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle." -Einstein "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "He, who by understanding becomes converted to the gospel of service, will serve truth to confute liars and make of them truth-tellers; will serve kindness so that brutality will perish; will serve beauty to the erasement of all that is not beautiful. And he who is strong will serve the weak that they may become strong. He will devote his strength, not to the debasement and defilement of his weaker fellows, but to the making of opportunity for them to make themselves into men rather than into slaves and beasts." -Jack London "There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." -Pablo Picasso "God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence." -Meher Baba "The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart." -Buddha "What do I think of western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea." -Gandhi "The time is always right to do what is right" -MLK Jr. "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." -Jack London "I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things." -Vincent van Gogh "Love is the absence of judgment." -Tenzin Gyatso "If suffering and chaos are to disappear and real happiness and peace are to come in their place, there has to be selfless love and universal brotherhood." -Meher Baba "Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics." -Albert Einstein "For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body." -Edgar Cayce "Follow any religion you like, but follow its innermost nucleus" -Meher Baba "When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending." -Thích Nhất Hạnh "Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it." -Vincent van Gogh "It is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die. For life and death are one, and only those who will consider the experience as one may come to understand or comprehend what peace indeed means." -Edgar Cayce "The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God." -Kierkegaard "Upon suffering beyond suffering; the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things, and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be as one." -Chief Crazy Horse "Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." -Rumi "I would rather die of passion than of boredom." -Vincent van Gogh "Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people." -Socrates “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” -Buddha "The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." -Søren Kierkegaard "The spirit is life. The mind is the builder. The physical is the result." -Edgar Cayce "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies." -MLK JR. "The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, speaks to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars." -Chief Dan George "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." -Søren Kierkegaard "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -Socrates "It is so simple a remedy, merely service. Not one ignoble thought or act is demanded of any one of all men and women in the world to make fair the world. The call is for nobility of thinking, nobility of doing. The call is for service, and, such is the wholesomeness of it, he who serves all, best serves himself." -Jack London "People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." -Søren Kierkegaard "Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness." -Meher Baba "He who understands nature walks close with God." -Edgar Cayce "Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo." -Soren Kierkegaard "Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better." -Henry Rollins "Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are." -Søren Kierkegaard "You only lose what you cling to." -Buddha "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates "When the first self submits to the deeper self, they are reconciled and walk on together." -Kierkegaard "Invariably muffled in the cloak of the infinitely true humility of the Ancient One, the Divine Call is at first little heeded, until, in its infinite strength, it spreads in volume to reverberate and keep on reverberating in countless hearts as the Voice of Reality." -Meher Baba "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." -Buddhist Proverb "Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them." -Edgar Cayce "What the age needs is not a genius, it has had geniuses enough, but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death. What the age needs is awakening. And therefore someday, not only my writings but my whole life, all the intriguing mystery of the machine will be studied and studied. I never forget how God helps me and it is therefore my last wish that everything may be to His honor." -The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard "You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped." -Edgar Cayce "I entered into unknowing Yet when I saw myself there Without knowing where I was I understood great things; I shall not say what I felt For I remained in unknowing Transcending all knowledge. That perfect knowledge Was of peace and holiness Held at no remove In profound solitude; It was something so secret That I was left stammering, Transcending all knowledge. I was so whelmed, So absorbed and withdrawn, That my senses were left Deprived of all their sensing, And my spirit was given An understanding while not understanding, Transcending all knowledge. He who truly arrives there Cuts free from himself; All that he knew before Now seems worthless, And his knowledge so soars That he is left in unknowing Transcending all knowledge. This knowledge in unknowing Is so overwhelming That wise men disputing Can never overthrow it, For their knowledge does not reach To the understanding of not understanding, Transcending all knowledge. And this supreme knowledge Is so exalted That no power of man or learning Can grasp it; He who masters himself Will, with knowledge in unknowing, Always be transcending. And if you should want to hear: This highest knowledge lies In the loftiest sense Of the essence of God; This is a work of His mercy, To leave one without understanding, Transcending all knowledge." -St. John of the Cross"