Quotes
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
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. -Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.)
There are no wrong notes when sung from the heart. -Glen Hansard
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
For the first time in human history, most of the stories about people, life, and values are told not by parents, schools, churches, or others in the community who have something to tell, but by a group of distant conglomerates that have something to sell. -George Gerbner, media researcher
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -Martin Luther King