Quotes

"The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly.
Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.
To put it more accurately,
it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—
you usually don't use it at all.
It uses you."
~Eckhart Tolle


I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain


"He told me that his teachers reported that . . . he was mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in his foolish dreams."
-- Hans Albert Einstein, on his father, Albert Einstein



And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done


Everything has its wonders,
even darkness and silence… and I learn,
whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
~ Helen Keller


Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.



Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting,
The soul that rises with us,
Our life’s star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
~ William Wordsworth


You cannot do a kindness too soon,
For you never know how soon it will be too late.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


The heart’s affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch, it will suffer but it does not die. It will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place. 

 ~ Kahlil Gibran

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”

- Jeremiah 29:11



Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all…
~ Emily Dickinson


“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. “

~ Rabindranath Tagore


In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
-Dalai Lama