Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.
Kamala HarrisTo attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
AristotleLove has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise PascalTrue happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLove is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne DyerFor a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.
John LennonPrejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
Eckhart TolleAll human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalDie to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiYou pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Khalil GibranYou have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo CoelhoThe capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine AlbrightMany people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
Thich Nhat HanhI spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
Wayne DyerYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. RowlingI restore myself when I’m alone.
Marilyn MonroeBe careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark TwainPeace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.
Thich Nhat HanhA friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
Friedrich NietzscheRemind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.
Robert GreeneSeek first to understand, then to be understood.
Stephen CoveyMeditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiPeace begins with a smile.
Mother TeresaEvery day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!
Joyce MeyerEvery day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
Joel OsteenMuch learning does not teach understanding.
HeraclitusForget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil GibranExpecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMeditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
Wayne DyerEverything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Wayne DyerWe must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George EliotWe can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya AngelouThere is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
Lady GagaThe truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
VoltaireThou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
AristotleWe run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise PascalTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily DickinsonA child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho MarxPeople talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.
Leonardo da VinciWhen people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayMost people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Eckhart TolleDon’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.
Joyce MeyerMindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
Thich Nhat HanhDo the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.
Will RogersYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil GibranReligion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.
Eckhart TolleTrue prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that – it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
Charles SpurgeonThe time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EpicurusAn idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles DickensYou can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.
Eckhart TollePoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PlatoI thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E. E. CummingsLife is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI don’t try to control my days.
Paulo CoelhoThe endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch SpinozaA person hears only what they understand.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.
Thich Nhat HanhIt is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer