The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
-Charles Dickens
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Burnt offerings, sacred feasts, intense meditations, puja and taking millions of cleansing baths at sacred shrines of pilgrimage: the merits of all these can be obtained by enshrining Lord within your heart for a fraction of a second.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
-Dalai Lama
Sometimes you believe a thing that isn't true because in the world you wish to live in, it would be true.
-Robert Brault
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth