The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
-Clarice Lispector
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.
If your kingdom exists for the doctrine and not for fame or desire, then it will be extremely fruitful. If not, its fruit will be misfortune.
If we only practice compassion at the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.
-Josephine Hart
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
-Robert Brault
Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
-Eddie Cantor
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?
-John Steinbeck