The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should obey it.
-C. S. Lewis
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
-Jay Z
The only person who is educated is the one who has learnt how to learn and change.
-Carl Ransom Rogers
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.
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