"Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea." –Chögyam Trungpa

"Drinking a cup tea, I stop the war." –Paul Reps

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” –Blaise Pascal

“Everyone is an expert in something. There is something that every person knows better than anyone else. So, if you make it your mission to learn something from everyone you talk to and you talk to a lot of people, you’ll be very smart indeed.” – Celeste Headlee

“My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.” –Mahatma Gandhi

“Love is just accepting someone how they are right now, and how they aren‘t right now. Thats what love is.“ –Mike Posner

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." –Ernest Hemingway

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” -Pablo Picasso

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings." –Henry David Thoreau

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." –Soren Kierkegaard

"Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do." –C. J. Jung

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”  –Howard Thurman

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good." –Thomas Paine

“What you resist, persists.”–C. G. Jung

“Be careful how you are talking to yourself because you are listening.”–Lisa M. Hayes

"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge is an exception to this rule. If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed." –Victor Frankenstein

"No institution should be held in higher regard than the people it serves."

"The scariest nightmares stem from the sweetest dreams."

"Its always easier looking in and giving advice than looking out and taking advice."

"He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. But he did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night." –Nick Carraway

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had." –Mr. Carraway

"True achievement lies on the border between success and failure."

"Learn to live with your decisions. Ground yourself in the present. Only then can you be truly happy."

"Follow your passions. Then everything you've dreamed of will follow you."

"Life is like a compound interest savings account. The more you put in early the more you have later on."

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." –E. B. White

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” –John Steinbeck 

"I expect to pass through this life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now, as I shall not pass this way again." –William Penn

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember those who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." –Viktor Frankl

"To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform." –Theodore H. White

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." –Albert Einstein

"All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence." –The Buddha's last words