Inspiration
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate your mind on the present moment.
-Buddha
Fools wait for a lucky day but every day is a lucky day for an industrious man [or woman!].
-Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.
-Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
-Buddha
We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. Howe can we bargain with it?
-Buddha
The greatest prayer is patience.
-Buddha
The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
-Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
-Buddha
What we think, we become.
-Buddha
Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
-Buddha
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
-Buddha
Love
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.
-St. Augustine
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs
-William Shakespeare
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
-Alexander Smith
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
-Plato
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-Henry Louis Mencken
When you are in love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.
-Dr. Seuss
