Quotes

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

~Thomas Merton

 

Being deeply loved gives you strength. Loving someone deeply gives you courage.

~Lao Tzu

 

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.

~Rumi

 

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

~Abraham Maslow

 

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

~Shakespeare, Hamlet

 

Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, nonjudgmentally.

~Jon Kabat-Zinn (on mindfulness)

 

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, not to hate them, but to understand them.

~Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus, 1676

 

The Perfect Way is only difficult
for those who pick and choose;
Do not like, do not dislike;
all will then be clear.
Make a hairbreadth difference,
and Heaven and Earth are set apart;
If you want the truth to stand clear before you,
never be for or against.
The struggle between “for” and “against”
is the mind’s worst disease.

~Sen-ts’an, 8th century Chinese Zen master

 

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

~Winston Churchill

 

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

~Viktor Frankl