“ Every other thing has been tried and failed. Brute force has had the fullest chance and no one is happier or more moral or more courageous for it. ”

Mahatma Ghandi

“ Love's greatest gift is its ability to make sacred everything it touches. ”

Rumi

“ Respond to every call that excites your spirit. ”

Rumi

“ Protect yourself from your own thoughts. ”

Rumi

“ Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. ”

Albert Schweitzer

“ There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love. ”

Rumi

“ What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs. ”

Rumi

“ Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same. ”

Marshall B Rosenberg

“ If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek. ”

Rumi

“ Do not pay attention to your weakness, but to the intensity of your longing. ”

Rumi

“ This path of gratitude is not for children; it is the path of tender heroes, of the heroes of tenderness who, whatever happens, keep burning on the altar of their hearts the flame of adoration. ”

Rumi

“ If you treat a man as he appears to be you make him worse. But if you treat a man as if he already were what he potentially could be, you make him what he can be. ”

Goethe

“ You have never done anything wrong. You never have. You never will. You’ve done some things, that if you knew then what you are learning now, you would do it differently. And (the fun part is), it will always be this way. ”

Marshall B Rosenberg

“ The greatest protection in all the world is loving kindness ”

Buddha

“ Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. ”

Rumi

“ Faith is, above all, open-ness — an act of trust in the unknown ”

Alan Wilson Watts

“ What one heart can do for another heart, is there any beauty in the world that can match this? ”

Hafiz

“ To speak your truth is to praise God ”

Hildegard of Bingen

“ Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ”

Rumi

“ The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant “to speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” Courage is a heart word. Be brave. Love hard. ”

Brene Brown

“ Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair. ”

Rumi

“ If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another. ”

Gautama Buddha

“ Be the one who, when you walk in, Blessing shifts to the one who needs it most. Even if you've not been fed, Be bread. ”

Jelaladdin Rumi

“ Understanding someone’s suffering is the best gift you can give another person. Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love. ”

Thich Nat Hahan

“ This turning deeply towards what you love, saves you ”

Rumi

“ Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ”

Rilke

“ Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. ”

Mahatma Ghandi

“ Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ”

Rumi

“ To be still is love. To be in movement is life. To be still and in movement is a miracle. ”

Anonymous

“ Whatever purifies you is the right path. ”

Rumi

“ The most powerful way to change the world is to live in front of our children the way we would like the world to be. ”

Graham White

“ The things we desire are sacred. Who put them in our hearts if not God? ”

Talmud

“ The words you speak become the house you live in. ”

Hafiz

“ Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. ”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

“ When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. ”

Madeleine L'Engle

“ Let the beauty we love be what we do... There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ”

Rumi

“ A prayer is a request made from a small part of god to a large part of god ”

Deepak Chopra

“ When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge ”

Rumi

“ Let your own presence be something that convinces the world. ”

Ken Wilber

“ I nourish a seed named Love. ”

Rumi

“ So quickly, increase your need, needy one, that the sea of abundance may surge up in loving-kindness. ”

Rumi

“ Your work is to discover your work and than with whole your heart give yourself to it ”

Buddha

“ Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. ”

Hafiz

“ Wherever you may be, in whatever situation or circumstances, strive to be a lover, and a passionate lover. ”

Rumi

“ Be with those who help your being. ”

Rumi

“ Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul ”

Mahatma Ghandi

“ There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, Seek that mine. O traveler, if you are in search of that, Don't look outside... Look inside yourself and seek that. ”

Rumi

“ May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these opening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has, streaming through widening channels into the open sea ”

Rilke

“ He said, "How do you benefit from this life?" I said, "By keeping true to myself. ”

Rumi

“ Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. ”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

“ Insight is an impulse of love dissolving some old imprint. ”

Deepak Chopra

“ As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ The inspiration you seek is already within you, Be quiet and listen ”

Rumi

“ What one heart can do for another heart, is there any beauty in the world that can match this? ”

Hafiz

“ Love is the bridge between you and everything. ”

Rumi

“ To give is domination if not also to receive. ”

Marshall Rosenberg