Go with joy

"We're here to learn to go with joy among the sorrows of the world."

Joseph Campbell

Perseverance

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but through perseverance."

H. Jackson Brown

Flow

“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”

Epictetus

The negative

"Life is much like photography: You use the negative to develop."

Lama Surya Das

Stop

"Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing

you will not understand.

Return to the Root and you will find the Meaning;

Pursue the Light, and you will lose its source....

There is no need to seek Truth; only stop having views."

Sengstan

Learning

"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

Lloyd Alexander

Uncertainty

"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."

R.I. Fitzhenry

Peace

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."

Mahatma Gandhi

Destiny

"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in it's own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Home

"There is nothing half as pleasant as coming home again."

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Gratitude

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today,

at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little,

at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick,

at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.”

Buddha

Freedom

"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom."

Marilyn Ferguson

Talent

"Happiness is a how, not a what.

A talent, not an object."

Hermann Hesse

Be

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

Lao Tzu

Ourselves

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always ourselves that we find in the sea."

E.E. Cummings

Protection

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you.

So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs,

and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."

Leonardo da Vinci

Shadows

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The game

"The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody."

Ram Dass

Peace

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Sri Chinmoy Ghose

Society

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

J. Krishnamurti

Joy

"He who binds to himself a joy

does the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity's sunrise."

William Blake

Dharma

"Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to

Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions;

they have not yet discovered that there are no

everyday actions outside of Dharma."

Zen Master Dogen

From Blossoms

"From blossoms comes

this brown paper bag of peaches

we bought from the boy

at the bend in the road where we turned toward

signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,

from sweet fellowship in the bins,

comes nectar at the roadside, succulent

peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,

comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,

to carry within us an orchard, to eat

not only the skin, but the shade,

not only the sugar, but the days, to hold

the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into

the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live

as if death were nowhere

in the background; from joy

to joy to joy, from wing to wing,

from blossom to blossom to

impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom."

Li-Young Lee

Warriors

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Patience

"Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.

Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Renunciation

"Leaving one's homeland is accomplishing half the Dharma."

Milapera

The Heart Sutra

"Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, practicing deep prajna

paramita

Clearly saw that all five skandhas are empty, transforming all

suffering and distress.

Form is no other than emptiness, emptiness no other than form;

Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness exactly form;

sensation, thought, impulse, consciousness are also like this.

All things are marked by emptiness - not born,

not destroyed;

not stained, not pure; without gain, without loss.

Therefore, in emptiness, there is no form, no sensation,

thought, impulse, consciousness;

no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind;

no color, sound, smell, taste, touch, object of thought;

no realm of sight to no realm of thought;

no ignorance and also no end ending of ignorance

to no old age and death and also no ending of old age and death;

no suffering, also no source of suffering, no annihilation, no path;

no wisdom, also no attainment. Having nothing to attain,

Bodhisattvas live prajna paramita

with no hindrance in the mind. No hindrance, thus no fear.

Far beyond delusive thinking, they attain complete Nirvana.

All Buddhas past, present, and future live prajna paramita

and thus attain perfect awakened enlightenment.

Therefore, know that prajna paramita is

the great mantra, the wisdom mantra,

the unsurpassed mantra, the supreme mantra,

whcih completely removes all suffering.

This is the truth, not deception.

Therefore, set forth the prajna paramita mantra,

set forth this mantra and say:

Gaté, gaté, paragaté, parasamgaté, Bodhi Svaha."

Mind

"If you don't get what you want, you suffer, if you get what you don't want, you suffer, even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."

Dan Millman

Experience

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you."

Aldous Huxley

Work

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. To love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret. All work is empty save when there is love, for work is love made visible."

Kahlil Gibran

Faith

"Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith."

Margaret Shepherd

Universe

"We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive - it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this."

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness

"Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it."

J. Petit Senn

Future

"Always remember that the future comes one day at a time."

Dean Acheson

Boldness

¨Whatever you can do or imagine, begin it; boldness has beauty, magic, and power in it."

Johann Wolfang von Goethe

Suceeded

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only

"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be."

Karen Ravn

Question

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

Albert Einstein

Becoming

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

E.E. Cummings

Accomplir

"La seule façon d'accomplir est d'être."

Lao Tzu

Go confidently

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."

Henry David Thoreau

Dare

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Seneca

Invictus

"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."

William Ernest Henley

Découverte

"Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux."

Marcel Proust

Preguntas

"Cuando creíamos que teníamos todas las respuestas, de pronto, cambiaron todas las preguntas."

Mario Benedetti

Be kind

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Plato

More

"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Mahatma Gandhi

Wünsche

"Unsere Wünsche sind die Vorboten der Fähigkeiten, die in uns liegen."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Être heureux

"J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé."

Voltaire

Sonho

"É justamente a possibilidade de realizar um sonho que torna a vida interessante."

Paulo Coelho