How would you live if you felt you could trust life fully? If you believed you were totally protected and secure, that forevermore your life would be filled with love and prosperity? Think of how your fears would dissolve, of how totally accepting of yourself and others you would be–it wouldn’t matter if they met your expectations or not. Think of how you would venture forth knowing you would succeed. Think of how your heart would open, of how free you would feel. How free you would be to love. All of this is the treasure that life offers us. We just lack the consciousness to experience it
- Susan L. Taylor
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart
- St. Jerome
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper
- Aristotle
Honeyed words and flattering looks seldom speak of love
-Confucius
A gentleman who is not a greedy eater, nor a lover of ease at home, who is earnest in deed and careful of speech, who seeks the righteous and profits by them, may be called fond of learning
-Confucius
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string
- Unknown
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances
- Thomas Jefferson
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to
learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous
activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives
more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in
modern lives is simplicity
–Sogyal Rinpoche
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness
- Friedrich Nietzsche