Life
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. -Ahjan Chah
To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation. And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. -Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret B. Runbeck
That's where happiness lies; in the details. Happiness lies in small, particular things. Gloom and depression are general. But happiness is always specific. -Garrison Keillor
The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. -Joseph Campbell
If I could do everything, then there's no reason for hope. -Michael J. Fox, on the importance of hope, and his experience of Parkinson's Disease
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
Illness of the mind is real illness....As organs go, the brain is quite an important one, and its malfunctions should be addressed accordingly. -Andrew Solomon The Noonday Demon
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not
Speak
Whispers the o'er fraught heart and bids it
Break.
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth