Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
-Alice Hoffman
Guide your child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas Jefferson
The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
-William James
A person once asked me in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: “Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?” We must always consider the person.
Everything is the Supreme Being, which is Existence – consciousness - bliss, and ‘I am That’. By constantly cultivating this pure thought, get rid of impure thoughts. Then discarding even that thought and always inhering in the state of fullness, you will become the non-dual and undifferentiated Supreme Being and attain liberation.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
A youngster makes friends with an old man, and he gets a better view of life.
-Frank M. Robinson