Creating without claiming,
Doing without taking credit,
Guiding without interfering,
This is primal virtue.
The Tao te Ching
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief Seattle
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
A traveler am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.
Kahlil Gibran
I am still learning.
Michelangelo
Great sages have childlike natures. Before God they are always like children. They have no pride. Their strength is the strength of God, the strength of their Father. They have nothing to call their own. They are firmly convinced of that.
Ramakrishna
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
Italian proverb
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego.'
Friedrich Nietzsche
It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know'.
Somerset Maughm
One must be as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
I will study and get ready and someday my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
To myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac Newton
The farther a man knows himself to be from perfection, the nearer he is to it.
Gerard Groote
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Saint Augustine
Go sweep out the chamber of your heart.
Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved.
When you depart out, He will enter it.
In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.
Mahmud Shabistari
O thou dweller in my heart,
open it, purify it,
make it bright and beautiful,
awaken it, prepare it, make it fearless,
make it a blessing to others,
rid it of laziness, free it from doubt,
unite it with all, destroy its bondage,
let thy peaceful music pervade all its works.
Make my heart fixed on thy holy lotus feet
and make it full of joy, full of joy, full of joy.
prayer sung in
Mahatma Gandhi’s
Satyagraha Ashram
