Only Love! There are only 4 questions of value in life, Don Octavio: What is sacred? Of What is the spirit made? What is worth Living for? and What is worth Dying for? The answer to each is the same: only Love!...
Kierkegaard - To Not Dare Is to Lose Oneself To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself....
Robert Grudin - Four-dimensional Chess Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose...
Oscar Wilde - In The Old Days Men Had The Rack In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement, certainly. But still it is very bad and wrong, and demoralising. The tyranny that it proposes to exercise over peoples' private lives seems...
There Are Hundreds Of Paths Up The Mountain There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading in the same direction, so it doesn't matter which path you take. The only one wasting time is the one  who runs around and around the mountain, telling everyone that...
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - If you want to build a ship If you want to build a ship don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the  endless immensity of the sea. Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery...
W.H. Murray - Until One Is Committed Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help...
Arthur Miller - Take One's Life in One's Arms I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. One day the house smells of fresh bread, the next of smoke and blood. One day you faint because the gardener cuts his finger off, within...
Ann Morrow Lindbergh - A Good Relationship Has a Pattern Like a Dance A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift...
Self Mastery is the Quality of a King Self mastery is the quality of a king. Be vigilant in your control over the self. If you cannot respond to your will, how can you expect others to respond?...
T.E. Lawrence - Dreamers of the Day This, therefore, is a faded dream of the time when I went down into the dust and noise of the Eastern market-place, and with my brain and muscles, with sweat and constant thinking, made others see my visions coming true....
George Bernard Shaw - A Splendid Torch This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the...
John Burroughs - Look Under Foot The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "Look under foot." You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The...
Einstein - A Human Being is Part of the Whole A human being is part of the whole, called by us "universe," limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This...
Richard Bach - Your Friends Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years....
Stanford Memorial Church - Thoughts and Words Travel Thoughts and words travel just as God's life travels. They do not travel like an individual, but you breathe your spiritual life into the atmosphere as you do your breath, and someone else breathes it in. Those not present still...
Von Durkheim - The Way of Transformation The man, who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive. Rather, he will...
Don Juan - A Path with Heart Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions.... Does this path have a heart? If it does,...
Teddy Roosevelt - To the Man in the Arena It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;...
Thomas Merton Prayer MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I...
Teilhard de Chardin - We Shall Harness for God the Energies of Love Some day, after we have mastered the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity, We shall harness for God the energies of Love. Then, for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire. Teilhard...
Morihei Ueshiba - The Art of Peace To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source, cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the Universe, your...
Faith Is Not Being Sure Faith is not being sure. It is not being sure, but betting with your last cent... Faith is not a series of gilt-edged propositions that you sit down to figure out, and if you follow all the logic and accept...
Marianne Williamson - Our Deepest Fear is that We Are Powerful Beyond Measure Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,...
I Ching - Hexagram 49 No revolution in outer things is possible without prior revolution in one's inner way of being. Whatever change you aspire to in your affairs must be preceded by a change in heart, an active deepening and strengthening of your resolve...
Henry Miller - Life Moves On Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything...
Rainer Maria Rilke - Live the Questions Now ...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in...