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Give up revenge! I see any desire to “prove myself” as a sort of revenge, an angry rebuttal to someone else’s expectations. Only act out of joy.

Elizabeth Rose Campbell

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, 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, man will have discovered fire.

Teilhard de Chardin

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

Joanna Rogers Macy

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.

Ramakrishna

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It’s just the universe breathing.

Scoop Nisker

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

“Maybe you’re right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. . . . Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandad!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned round and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?”

Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

The most exhausting thing in my life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Paint the soul. Never mind the legs and arms.

Ralph McTell