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SOME OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES

"Read a little.  Meditate more.  Think of God all the time." - Paramahansa Yogananda

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." - Jesus of Nazareth

"We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens." - Epictetus

"The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is.  When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want." - Byron Katie

"Who would you be without your story?" - Byron Katie

"Be the change that you want to see in the world." - Mohandas Gandhi

"A rich person is not someone who has the most but needs the least." - Anonymous

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. - Mother Teresa

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"What you are is what you have been.  What you will be is what you do now." - The Buddha

"That which does not kill me only makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa 

"We can do no great things - only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." - Mother Teresa

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.  Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau

"A Holy Man is seen as a fool by a fool but a fool is seen as a Holy Man by a Holy Man." - Anonymous

“The fruit of self-understanding is self-acceptance.  The fruit of self-acceptance is self-love.  The fruit of self-love is love for the world.  The fruit of love for the world is service to the world.  The fruit of service to the world is peace.” - Russell Rowe

".....grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive;....."  - Saint Francis of Assisi

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This page was last updated on 05/29/05.