Who has the time today, really the time, to grow, to unfold, and develop in an activity or even to contemplate properly what others are doing? Life ought to be lived more like harmonious music. The pressure of hastening things, of skimming the superficially, only destroys that sense of music in life.

--Paul Caponigro

The same eye with which God sees me is the eye with which I see God.

--Meister Eckhart

To be idle is the short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

--The Buddha

. . .at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.

--Paulo Coelho from The Alchemist

Remember that wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.

--Paulo Coelho from The Alchemist

One can make a day of any size, and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

--John Muir

Too many people merely do what they are told to do. The greatest satisfaction derives from the realization of your individual potential, perceiving something in your own way and expressing it through adequate understanding of your tools. Take advantage of everything; be dominated by nothing except your own convictions.

--Ansel Adams

Always be able to look back and say, “At least I didn’t lead no humdrum life”.

--Forrest Gump(Winston Groom)

If you don’t know where you are goin’, you will probably not wind up there.

--Forrest Gump

Love is hell.

--Matt Groening

Try to live in the present; don’t carry around unnecessary burdens from a yesterday you will not live again or a tomorrow that is not guaranteed.

--Marian Wright Edelman

Women, can’t live with them. . . pass the beer nuts.

--Norm

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

--The Buddha

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

--Einstein

To be healthy is a great advantage, to be contented with what one has is better than the possession of great wealth; to be considered reliable is the truest mark of friendliness; to attain enlightenment is the highest happiness.

--The Buddha

Paradise is where I am.

--Voltaire

What is life? It is the flash of the firefly in the night. it is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

--Crowfoot’s last words

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect exactly as they are!

--The Buddha

Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation. A smile, a face in the subway, the sight of a small flower growing in the crack of cement pavement, a fall of rich cloth in a shop window, the way the sun lights up flower pots on a windowsill. Be alert for any sign of beauty or grace. Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments to the news that is always arriving out of the silence.

--Sogyal Rinpoche