Nature does nothing uselessly.
-Aristotle
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
-Krista Tippett
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-Søren Kierkegaard
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Mankind is a great, immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
All ups and downs help you to find a balance in your being. No more ups and downs, but bliss, joy, silence and gratitude.
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
-Mark Twain