Here are a few of my favourite quotes. Sometimes reading them through every so often just puts things in perspective again! I've tried to edit a few out, as the list is long, but I just couldn't bear to part with any. Some will speak to you, some won't, and then some will REALLY speak to you.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. - William Blake
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or coerce people along a particular path. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. - Jiddu Krishnamurti
The only way to a successful practice is to practice - Unknown
Once you label me, you negate me – Soren Kierkegaard
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. – Soren Kierkegaard
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. – Anais Nin
No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. - Albert Einstein
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. - Victor Frankl
Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. - Rumi
The secret in life is enjoying the passage of time. - Richie Havens
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung
To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful. - Carl Jung
Asanas must have the dual qualities of alertness and relaxation. - Patanjali
Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it’s the only thing. – Albert Schweitzer
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, but it is not possible to find it elsewhere. – Agnes Repplier
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. – George Bernard Shaw
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. - Gandhi
Nobody can hurt me without my permission. - Gandhi
There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Being at peace and being who you are, that is, being yourself, are one. – Eckhart Tolle
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. – Mark Twain
Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and whatever you resist, persists. – Eckhart Tolle
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. – Eckhart Tolle
To love is to recognize yourself in another. – Eckhart Tolle
Resentment is like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. – Anne Lamott
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Buddha
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha
What we think, we become. - Buddha
To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. - Buddha
The highest revelation is that God is in every man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing external to you has any power over you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. – Byron Katie
It is not our thoughts, but the attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. – Byron Katie
When you argue with reality, you lose—but only 100% of the time. – Byron Katie
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Gandhi
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not
transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.” – Richard Rohr
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung
whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. - Carl Jung
It is a mistake to identify yourself with this life span, to imagine that
you are separated from anything else in space or time. – Thich Nhat Hanh
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it,
because the answer is not separate from the problem. - Krishnamurti
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which
unites your body to your thoughts. – Thich Nhat Hanh
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle;
you can live as if everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein
You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that
is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. – Eckhart Tolle
The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive
as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable
or unwilling to detect within yourself. – Eckhart Tolle
In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention
toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever. – Eckhart Tolle
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way,
and the only way, it does not exist. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand
what little chance you have in trying to change others. - Anonymous
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
The mind is everything. What we think we become. - Buddha
It takes time to take care of yourself, but it takes more time if you don’t take care of yourself.
Take the time to be healthy or take the time to be sick. – Suza Francina
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. - Buddha
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in
comparison to what lies inside of you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
