Quotes

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
~ Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes



Compassion is not religious business, it is human business; it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability; it is essential for human survival.
~ The Dalai Lama



To be able to see right turns, we have to be able to see the wrong ones.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes


Tears are a river that takes you somewhere. Tears make us conscious. There is no chance to go back to sleep when one is weeping. Whatever sleep comes then is only rest for the physical body.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes


What Jung called 'the moral obligation' to live out and to express what one has learned in the descent or ascent to the wild Self. This moral obligation he speaks of means to live what we perceive, be it found in the psychic Elysian fields, the isles of the dead, the bone deserts of the psyche, the face of the mountain, the rock of the sea, the lush underworld - anyplace where La Que Sabe breathes upon us, changing us. Our work is to show we have been breathed upon - to show it, give it out, sing it out, to live out in the topside world what we have received through our sudden knowings, from body, from dreams and journeys of all sorts.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
~ Carl Jung


Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
~ Carl Jung


When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
~ Kahlil Gibran


Your neighbor is your other self dwelling behind a wall. In understanding all walls shall fall down.
~ Kahlil Gibran


Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
~ Anais Nin


Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
~ Anais Nin


Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
~ Joseph Campbell


Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~ Helen Keller


You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt


Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once your have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt


The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
~ Buddha


The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh


Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
~ William James


Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
~ Einstein

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.
~ Zen saying





A priest, a minister and a rabbi walk into a bar. The bartender says...What is this, a joke?
~ Unknown


Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
~ Groucho Marx


I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
~ Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes Comics