“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

~ Socrates

“Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”

~ Carl Jung

“Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts.”

~ Benjamin Disraeli

“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”

~ Thomas Merton

“Realization is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.”

~ Ramana Maharshi

“I choose gentleness… Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.”

~ Max Lucado

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”

~ Henry Miller

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”

~ Daniel Defoe

“This moment is all there is.”

~ Rumi

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery