Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-Mahatma Gandhi
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
-Alan Wilson Watts
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
If one speaks or acts with pure mind, because of that happiness follows one, even as one’s shadow that never leaves.
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between permanent and impermanent, pure and impure, bliss and suffering, Self and non-Self.
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
-Marcel Marceau