"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams "He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot." - Douglas Adams "To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity." - Douglas Adams "You live and learn. At any rate, you live." - Douglas Adams "He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which." - Douglas Adams "A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." - Aesop "The wise man will love; all others will desire." - Lucius Afranius "A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." - Muhammad Ali "It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali "Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it lives in them; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know. Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish." - James Allen "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." - James Allen "The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot." - James Allen "I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." - Woody Allen "What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?" - Woody Allen "You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." - Woody Allen "A student asked the Master during a meditation retreat, 'I am very discouraged. What should I do?' The Master replied, 'Encourage others.' " - Anonymous "Unless we can hear each other singing and crying, unless we can comfort each other's failures and cheer each other's victories, we are missing out on the best that life has to offer. The only real action takes place on the bridge between people." - Anonymous "It will cost you nothing to dream - and everything not to." - Anonymous "No written word, no spoken plea can teach our youths what they should be, nor all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are themselves." - Anonymous "The four hardest tasks on earth are neither physical nor intellectual feats, but spiritual ones: To return love for hate; to include the excluded; to forgive without apology, and to be able to say 'I was wrong.'" - Anonymous "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and just listen." - Anonymous "Deep down inside we know that the best gifts don't come from catalogs or shopping malls. They don't come in brightly-colored packages or fancy envelopes and they're not sitting under a tree somewhere... The best gifts come from the heart. They come when we look at each other, REALLY look at each other and say 'You mean a lot to me' or 'I'm so glad you're a part of my life.' A gift like that will never go out of style or be forgotten or be returned for a different size. A gift like that can change the world." - Ron Atchison "People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering." - Saint Augustine "You never see fault in anybody. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in you life...to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad, belongs to you alone." - Jane Austen "All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love." Sri da Avabhas "We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters, triumphs, challenges, impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!" - Richard Bach "I wasn't looking, but somehow you found me." - Carole Bayer Sager (via Carly Simon) "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie "If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both." - Bodhidharma "Freeing oneself from words is liberation." - Bodhidharma "People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking." - Bodhidharma "Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us." - Bodhidharma "To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding." - Bodhidharma "Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist." - Bodhidharma "Words are illusions." - Bodhidharma "When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge it by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman." Jean de La Gruyere "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." - Buddha "Be a light unto yourself." - Buddha "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." - Buddha "In an argument the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." - Buddha "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 "How can one ever know anything if they are too busy thinking?" - Buddha "The way is not in the sky, the way is in the heart." - Buddha "When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known." - Buddha "You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha "If you fucking cunts don't stop fucking misquoting me, I'm going to twat the fucking lot of you." - Buddha "I know of only one duty, and that is to love." - Albert Camus "In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus "When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil." - Dale Carnegie "Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses." - Dale Carnegie "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie "People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." - Dale Carnegie "You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged."- Dale Carnegie "The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?" - Pablo Casals "It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life." - Julius Caesar "The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin "Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." Chinese Proverb "The possibility of stepping onto a higher plane is there for everyone. It requires no force, effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal." - Deepak Chopra "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognise it." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of Thomas) "I am he who exists from the undivided .... if he is destroyed he will be filled with light, but if he is divided he will be filled with darkness." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "I am not a divider, am I?" - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "You do not know how to read this moment." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "When you make the two one then you will become the sons of Man." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying 'here it is' or 'there it is'. Rather, the kingdom is spread out upon the Earth and men do not see it." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "I will give you what no eye has seen, and what no ear has heard, and what no hand has touched, and what has not occurred to the human mind." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "Have you already discovered the beginning that you are now asking about the end? For where the beginning is, there the end will be too. Blessed is he who will stand at the beginning, and he will know the end and he will not taste death." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, to make the male into the female so that the male will not be male and the female will not be female - then you will enter." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "The person old in his days will not hesitate to ask a child about the place of life .. and he will live." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "No prophet is accepted in his own village. A physician does not heal those who know him." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "Do not worry from morning to evening and from evening to morning about what you will wear." - Jesus Christ (Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas) "To be honest, when I told them they were bunch of sheep, I wasn't expecting them to take it quite so well." - Jesus Christ (The Missing Years) "I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires." - John Cleese "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. " - Dalai Lama "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." - Dalai Lama "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama "I don't do drugs. I am drugs." - Salvador Dali "Calm in quietude is not real calm. When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature. Happiness in comfort is not real happiness. When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind." - Huanchu Daoren "The most exquisite paradox - as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible." - Ram Dass "It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed." - Ram Dass "Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness." - Ram Dass "The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody." - Ram Dass "When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there." - Ram Dass "As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is." - Ram Dass "In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight." - Ram Dass "Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it." - Ram Dass "All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion." - Ram Dass "My life is a creative act - like a painting, or a concerto." - Ram Dass "It is here we must begin<br />To seek the wisdom of the children<br />And the graceful way of flowers in the wind." - John Denver "For the children and the flowers<br />Are my sisters and my brothers<br />Their laughter and their loveliness<br />Could clear a cloudy day<br />In their innocence and trusting<br />They will teach us to be free." - John Denver "If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." - Descartes "You will die in the middle of your journey - everybody dies in the middle of the journey." - Diogenes "If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results!" - Jack Dixon "It is always better to give too much, pay too much, and love too much, than not enough." - Mike Dooley "The soul is healed by being with children." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky "There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way." - Wayne Dyer "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer "You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason." - Wayne Dyer "When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." - Wayne Dyer "The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about." - Wayne Dyer "When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Wayne Dyer "Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you." - Wayne Dyer "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Wayne Dyer "Everything comes in dichotomies except for silence." - Wayne Dyer "When you complain, you become a living, breathing crap magnet." - T Harv Ecker "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." - Einstein "Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." - Einstein "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Einstein "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." - Einstein "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." - Einstein "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." - Einstein "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Einstein "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Einstein "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." - Einstein "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." - Einstein "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." - Einstein "The only real valuable thing is intuition." - Einstein "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Einstein "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Einstein "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." - Einstein "When the solution is simple, God is answering." - Einstein "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Einstein "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Einstein "It is the theory that decides what can be observed." - Einstein "None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen." - Epictetus "If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it." - Epictetus "How wonderful to be able to live without control and without fear, taking absolutely everything that happens as the medicine we need right now. That's the way to stay healthy!" - Norman Fischer "You ain't nobody until you do what you want!" - The Fonz "Live fast, love hard, and don't let anybody else use your comb!" - The Fonz "Hey I'm not the dreamer! I'm the dreamee!" - The Fonz "Cool is knowing the difference between right and wrong and doing what is right with guts." - The Fonz "A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time." - Thomas Fuller "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself." - Galileo "Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Khalil Gibran "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror." - Khalil Gibran "But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." - Khalil Gibran "And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Khalil Gibran "Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love." - Khalil Gibran "Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self." - Khalil Gibran "Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighbouring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?" - Khalil Gibran "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you." - Khalil Gibran "Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all." - Khalil Gibran "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." - Khalil Gibran "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were." - Khalil Gibran "Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love." - Khalil Gibran "The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply." - Khalil Gibran "Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents." - Khalil Gibran "Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking." - Khalil Gibran "The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream." - Khalil Gibran "We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." - William Gladstone "I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself." - Goethe "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." - Greek proverb "It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. " - G. I. Gurdjieff "[A human's] 'I' changes as quickly as his thoughts, feelings and moods, and he makes a profound mistake in considering himself always one and the same person; in reality he is always a different person, not the one he was a moment ago." - G. I. Gurdjieff "Man has no individual I. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "I"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible." - G. I. Gurdjieff "A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. " - G. I. Gurdjieff "People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle." Thich Nhat Hanh "Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now! With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful." - Mark Victor Hansen "Even if there is only one possible Unified Theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" - Stephen Hawking "Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorn "You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven." - Jimi Hendrix "Old age is fifteen years older than I am." - Oliver Wendell Holmes "He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words." - Elbert Hubbard "If I am strong it is because I have been tested against her strength. If I am loving it is because I have had the priceless privilege of receiving her love." - Pete Hughes "To belittle is to be little." - Pete Hughes "Great is he who has power over others and decides not to use it." - Pete Hughes "'You do not respect me as a person,' they said. 'Of course not! How can I respect you as something which you are not?'" - Pete Hughes "When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes ." - Victor Hugo "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." - Thomas Huxley "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed." - Storm Jameson "I was sad one day and went for a walk; I sat in a field. A rabbit noticed my condition and came near. It often does not take more than that to help at times - to just be close to creatures who are so full of knowing, so full of love that they don't - chat, they just gaze with their marvelous understanding." - St. John of the Cross "He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible." - James Joyce "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce "The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown." - Carl Jung "Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves." - Carl Jung "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul." - Carl Jung "The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung "It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet." - Franz Kafka "Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen "Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost." - Helen Keller "Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame." - Thomas a Kempis "Each time we stand up for an ideal, or act to improve the lot of others, or strike out against injustice, we send forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert Kennedy "We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. ...And the great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. It is a good instinct if you don't distort it and pervert it. Don't give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity." - Martin Luther King "Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem." - J Krishnamurti "Whatever thought does it breeds misery, sorrow, conflict, and when thought realizes that, it will come to an end by itself, the vicious circle is broken; thought, which means time, has come to an end." - J Krishnamurti "The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear." - J Krishnamurti "Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom." - J Krishnamurti "Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms." - J Krishnamurti "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - J Krishnamurti "The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain" - J Krishnamurti "Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay." - J Krishnamurti "We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free." - J Krishnamurti "All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man." - J Krishnamurti "Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?" - J Krishnamurti "If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation."- J Krishnamurti "A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove." - J Krishnamurti "I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect." - J Krishnamurti "There are no problems apart from the mind." - J Krishnamurti "When once you have understood that there is nothing to understand, what is there to communicate? Communication is just not necessary." - U. G. Krishnamurti "Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it." - U. G. Krishnamurti "A happy man wouldn't be interested in seeking happiness. A well-fed man is not in search of food." - U. G. Krishnamurti "You are a pleasure seeker at all times, and therefore your idea of the greatest happiness is simply one of endless pleasure without pain. It is all romantic hogwash, sheer unadulterated fantasy and nothing more." - U. G. Krishnamurti "All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy." - U. G. Krishnamurti "All your relationships, knowledge and experiences, all your emotions and feelings, all that romantic stuff, belongs entirely to society, not to you. You are not an individual at all; you are secondhand people. Only when you are free from what every man and woman has thought and felt before you will you become an individual." - U. G. Krishnamurti "Society, of which you are a part, cannot be other than it is. Stop trying to save it or change it. You cannot even change your mother-in-law." - U. G. Krishnamurti "You want a different world so you can be happy in it. That is your only interest. You can talk of mankind, concern for mankind, compassion for mankind, but it is all bullshit, horseshit." - U. G. Krishnamurti "Unless you are at peace with yourself, there cannot be peace around the world. When you are at peace with yourself, that is the end of the story." - U. G. Krishnamurti "There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict." - U. G. Krishnamurti "Understanding yourself is one of the greatest jokes, perpetuated on the gullible and credulous people everywhere, not only by the purveyors of ancient wisdom - the holy men - but also by the modern scientists." - U. G. Krishnamurti "It is very difficult to be like the other fellow, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing. No effort is necessary." - U. G. Krishnamurti "The boredom and restlessness you feel inside you is there only because you think you must be doing something more interesting, more meaningful and more valuable than what you are already doing." - U. G. Krishnamurti "The more you know about yourself, the more it becomes impossible to be humble and sensitive. How can there be humility as long as you know something?" - U. G. Krishnamurti "Don't bother about others. The whole world is an extension of you." - U. G. Krishnamurti "Where is this mind you talk of? Can you show it to me? There is no such thing as your mind and my mind. Mind is everywhere, sort of like the air we breathe. There is a thought sphere. It is not ours and not mine. It is always there. Your brain acts like an antenna, picking and choosing what signals it wants to use. That is all. You use the signals for purposes of communication." - U. G. Krishnamurti "The problem, or pathology if you will, arises when you constantly communicate with yourself, irrespective of any outside demand for thought. You are all the time communicating with yourself: 'I am happy .... I am not happy .... What is the meaning of life?' and so on. If that incessant communication with yourself is not there, YOU are not there as you now know and experience yourself. When that inner monologue is no longer there, the need to communicate with others is absent." - U. G. Krishnamurti "Unconditioning yourself has no meaning. What you have to be free from is the very desire to be free from conditioning. Conditioning is intelligence, the ability to respond adequately to the environment. This is entirely unrelated to your fantasies, ideations, and mentations - what you take to be the heights of intelligence." - U. G. Krishnamurti "Everything you stand for, believe in, experience and aspire to is the result of thought. And thought is destructive because it is nothing more than a protective mechanism, programmed to protect its own interests at all costs." - U. G. Krishnamurti "Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque." - U. G. Krishnamurti "They would make of me a model and attempt to live a certain way, creating a disaster for mankind." - U. G. Krishnamurti "I am just singing my song, then I go. If someone listens to me or not, it is not my concern." - U.G. Krishnamurti "You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind." - Timothy Leary "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." - Timothy Leary "Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity." - Gottfried Leibniz "It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, It matters only THAT you love." - John Lennon "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it." - John Lennon "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." - John Lennon "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." - John Lennon "Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me. " - John Lennon "People ask me questions, lost in confusion. Well, I tell them there's no problem, only solutions. Then they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind. I tell them there's no hurry, I'm just sitting here doing time." - John Lennon "There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy." - Lennon/McCartney "There's nothing you can DO but you can learn how to PLAY the GAME. It's easy. All you need is LOVE." - Lennon/McCartney "Thoughts change rapidly in the mind at the time they feel right till the next one comes in! What's wrong? "What's right? Does it matter? Hold on tight!" - Claire Longden "A person who makes no mistake does not usually make anything." - William Connor Magee "Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true Self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes." - Sri Ramana Maharshi "Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world." - Sri Ramana Maharshi "If you wait for happiness to catch up with you, or 'just happen', or be brought to you by others, you are likely to have a long wait." - Maxwell Maltz "Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." - Og Mandino "Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools." - Og Mandino "There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life - happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else." - Peyton Conway March "He drew a circle that shut me out. Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win. We drew a circle that let him in." - Edwin Markham "There is a destiny that makes us brothers; None goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own." - Edwin Markham "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind." - Bob Marley "In love all problems disappear." - Paul McCartney "I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird." - Paul McCartney "You can easily judge the character of a person by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." -James D. Miles "Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. " ~ Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne "Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them." - A.A. Milne "The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts: and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible." - Montaigne "The moment I let go of it was<br />The moment I got more than I could handle<br />The moment I jumped off of it was<br />The moment I touched down"<br />Alanis Morrissette "Thank you India<br />Thank you providence<br />Thank you disillusionment<br />Thank you nothingness<br />Thank you clarity<br />Thank you thank you silence"<br />Alanis Morrissette "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." - Mozart "We can only learn to love by loving." - Iris Murdoch "What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil." - Frederick Nietsche "We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are." - Anais Nin "We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them." - Anais Nin "Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way." - Douglas Pagels "All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. " - Picasso "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato "Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further and further away from it. Just discard all you have acquired as being no better than a bed spread for you when you were sick." - Huang Po "We must use things and love people, not love things and use people" - John Powell "Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away." Elvis Presley "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." - Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949 "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That is why they call it the present." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. " - Eleanor Roosevelt "No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent. " - Eleanor Roosevelt "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." - Bertrand Russell "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." - Bertrand Russell "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." - Bertrand Russell "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." - Bertrand Russell "In view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." - Bertrand Russell "It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young." - Bertrand Russell "The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good." - Bertrand Russell "There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action." - Bertrand Russell "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell "One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways." - Bertrand Russell "It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. " - Bertrand Russell "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. " - Bertrand Russell "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. " - Bertrand Russell "Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopaedias. " - Bertrand Russell "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." - Carl Sagan "Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense." - Carl Sagan "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." - Carl Sagan "The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." - Carl Sagan "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." - Carl Sagan "Most people who are standing still in life aren't going any place for a very simple reason. They haven't selected a place to go." - David J Schwartz Ph.D "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer "The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires." - Seneca "If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor; if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich." - Seneca "There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind." - Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944 "The Great Way is not difficult<br /> for those not attached to preferences.<br /> When neither love nor hate arises,<br /> all is clear and undisguised.<br /> Separate by the smallest amount, however,<br /> and you are as far from it as heaven is from earth."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "If you wish to know the truth,<br /> then hold to no opinions for or against anything.<br /> To set up what you like against what you dislike<br /> is the disease of the mind."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "When you try to stop activity to achieve quietude,<br /> your very effort fills you with activity."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "The more you talk and think about it<br /> the further you wander from the truth."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "Do not seek the truth;<br /> Only cease to cherish opinions."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "If you attach even to a trace<br /> of this and that, of right and wrong,<br /> the Mind-essence will be lost in confusion.<br /> Although all dualities arise from the One,<br /> do not be attached even to ideas of this One."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "Those who rely on limited views are fearful and irresolute:<br /> The faster they hurry, the slower they go.<br /> To have a narrow mind,<br /> and to be attached to getting enlightenment<br /> is to lose one's center and go astray.<br /> When one is free from attachment,<br /> all things are as they are,<br /> and there is neither coming nor going."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "When mind is in bondage, the truth is hidden,<br /> and everything is murky and unclear,<br /> and the burdensome practice of judging<br /> brings annoyance and weariness.<br /> What benefit can be derived<br /> from attachment to distinctions and separations?"<br /> - Seng Ts'an "Gain and loss, right and wrong; finally abandon all such thoughts at once."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "When all things are seen without differentiation,<br /> the One Self-essence is everywhere revealed.<br /> No comparisons or analogies are possible<br /> in this causeless, relationless state."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "When movement stops, there is no movement -<br /> and when no movement, there is no stopping.<br /> When such dualities cease to exist<br /> Oneness itself cannot exist.<br /> To this ultimate state<br /> no law or description applies."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "With a single stroke you are freed from bondage;<br /> nothing clings to you and you hold to nothing.<br /> All is empty, clear, self-illuminating,<br /> with no need to exert the mind.<br /> Here, thinking, feeling, understanding, and imagination<br /> are of no value.<br /> In this world 'as it really is'<br /> there is neither self nor other-than-self."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "This Dharma-truth has nothing to do with big or small, with time and space.<br /> Here a single thought is as ten thousand years.<br /> Not here, not there -<br /> but everywhere always right before your eyes.<br /> Infinitely large and infinitely small: no difference,<br /> for definitions are irrelevant<br /> and no boundaries can be discerned.<br /> So likewise with 'existence' and 'non-existence.'"<br /> - Seng Ts'an "Don't waste your time in arguments and discussion<br /> attempting to grasp the ungraspable."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "Words! Words!<br /> The Way is beyond language,<br /> for in it there is no yesterday,<br /> no tomorrow,<br /> no today."<br /> - Seng Ts'an "The mind of absolute trust is beyond all thought, all striving, is perfectly at peace, for in it there is no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow." - Seng-ts'an "How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven." - Ravi Shankar "Some feeling came into you, unpleasant feeling, and you said, Should not come, it should not come! Doing that, you are resisting it. When you resist, it persists. Just observe. See, Oh! Go deep into it. Dance; stand up on your feet and dance. Be intoxicated; move intoxicated." - Ravi Shankar "Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want." - Ravi Shankar "Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don't hold on to the ball. " - Ravi Shankar "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." - George Bernard Shaw "Bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them and however life looks, you'll be happy!" Marci Shimoff "Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods." - Socrates "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." - Socrates "An honest man is always a child." - Socrates "Beware the barrenness of a busy life." - Socrates "Let him that would move the world first move himself." - Socrates "True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." - Socrates "Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates "I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." - Socrates "I would rather have a mind opened by wonder, than one closed by beliefs." - Gerry Spence "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." - Howard Thurman "Strenuously seeking truth<br />by investigation and concentration,<br /> one will never appreciate<br />the unthinkable simplicity and bliss<br />that abide at the core."<br />Tilopa "The illumination from an oil lamp<br />lights the room instantly,<br />even if it has been dark for aeons."<br />Tilopa "If you are beyond all grasping at an object and at a subject,<br />that is the monarch of all views.<br />If there is no distraction,<br />it is the monarch of all meditations.<br />If there is no effort,<br />it is the monarch among all conducts.<br />When there is no hope and no fear,<br />that is the final result,<br />and the fruition has been attained or revealed."<br />Tilopa "We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them." - Josei Toda "All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." Leo Tolstoy "Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us." - Leo Tolstoy "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." - Leo Tolstoy "There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers." - H. M. Tomlinson "Listen to her voice, hear it echo through creation. Without fail, she reveals her presence. Without fail, she brings us to our own perfection." - Lao Tzu "If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man." - Lao Tzu "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. " - Lao Tzu "Ambition has one heel nailed in a well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. " - Lao Tzu "Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. " - Lao Tzu "By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. " - Lao Tzu "He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. " - Lao Tzu "The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. " - Lao Tzu "The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. " - Lao Tzu "The words of truth are always paradoxical. " - Lao Tzu "To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. " - Lao Tzu "Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good. " - Lao Tzu "Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows. " - Lao Tzu "The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false. " - Lao Tzu "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. " - Lao Tzu "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Van Gogh "We discover in others what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves." - Vauvenargues "Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo da Vinci "Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous." - Leonardo da Vinci "Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel." - Leonardo da Vinci "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." - Leonardo da Vinci "Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." - Alan Watts "The trouble is that we have one-sided minds, and we notice the wave of life when it is at its peak or crest." - Alan Watts "So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level." - Alan Watts "You are the eternal thing that comes and goes, that appears - now as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown - and so it goes, forever and ever and ever." - Alan Watts "The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile." - Alan Watts "We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin." - Alan Watts "Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot." - Alan Watts "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden "Isness is my business." - Yakusan "Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi "On the platform of reality, on the platform of oneness of life, all differences dissolve." - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." - Lin Yutang "Humility is not thinking less about yourself, but rather thinking about yourself less." - Michael Z