"Your Task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false."-A course in Miracle

“Peace is Letting Go-Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.” -Malidoma Patrice Some

"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."
-Epictetus

"Great things have no fear of time."
-Confucius

"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other."
-Dali Lama

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
-Dalai Lama

"The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already learned?"
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
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"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of you belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."

"In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime."
-Richard Bach from, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... Much of your pain is self chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears."
-Kahlil Gibran

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own.”
-Jubel in Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein

"When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves."
~Albert Einstein~

"What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present."
-N. Sri Ram, Thoughts for Aspirants

"If you hide your ignorance under a basket the only change you have made is to add darkness."
 -unknown

"A lie is a short-term gain with a long-term loss. The truth is a short-term loss with a long-term gain. Therefore, only truth is sustainable."
-Unknown

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
-James A. Baldwin

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For Love is sufficient unto Love.
-Kahlil Gibran 

"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are."
- Anais Nin  

"Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?"
-Sai Baba

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cynicism is knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde 

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
- Kafka 

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing."
-Anais Nin 

"Don't settle for anything but mad, passionate, extraordinary love. There are too many mediocre things in life and love shouldn't be one of them"
"There is life without love. It is not worth a bent penny or a scuffed shoe. It is not worth the body of a dead dog nine days unburied."
-Mary Oliver 

"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."
-Alexander Smith
 
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- Oscar Wilde

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
-Muhammad Ali

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
-Meister Eckhart

"The path of the warrior is a lot more daring: you are cultivating a fearless heart, a heart that doesn't close down in any circumstances; it is always open, so that you could be touched by anything."
-Pema Chodron

"Be kind, my friends, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
-Plato

The man who claims to be the boss in his own home will lie about other things as well.
- Amish saying

"To love someone is to see the face of God."
- Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"