Anyway

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.
Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.
Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten.
Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.

this version is credited to Mother Teresa

Think like Einstein

The world is a dangerous place to live;
not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

There are two ways to live:
you can live as if nothing is a miracle;
you can live as if everything is a miracle.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

God always takes the simplest way.

God does not play dice.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Information is not knowledge.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Albert Einstein

Beauty

Beauty is itself a cure for psychological malaise.

James Hillman

Conformists and troublemakers

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Nourishment of the soul

When the soul is starved for nourishment,
it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Challenges

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you,
they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Attitude

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

William James

Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Captain of your soul

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not teach people that they are capable of becoming happier and more civilized on this earth, capable of becoming master of his fate and captain of his soul.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Art

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

Intuition

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Infinitely precious things

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

Psychology and spirituality

Psychology helps us understand. Spirituality helps us heal.

Janette Ayd

Timeless dimension

You are not what happens; you are the space in which it happens. You are not your thoughts; they come and go. You are the vastness in which these thoughts appear and disappear because underneath all your thinking there is the stillness of pure being, pure consciousness, the timeless dimension of yourself.

Eckhart Tolle

Troubles

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

Messages of Christ

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

“What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul.”

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Jesus Christ

Conscious presence

What is the now? Not the content that fills this moment with sense perceptions, with experiences, with thoughts and emotions. Not the content that fills this moment. That's not the now. That's what happens in the now, the content. The now is deeper, the now is who you are as the space of conscious presence that makes it all possible, that makes the whole world possible.

Eckhart Tolle

Alive field of aware presence

To be free of thousands of years of conditioning does not require time or future. At this moment you can step out of the movement of thought. And allow quite simply an alert presence to be there. You're not here any longer as the carrier of your personal history, but you're here as an alive field of aware presence.

Eckhart Tolle

No mistakes

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Richard Bach