Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

-- Marion Wright Edelman

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

-- Albert Einstein

MISTAKES

There are no mistakes
The events we bring upon ourselves,
no matter how unpleasant,
are necessary in order to learn
what we need to learn;
whatever steps we take,
they're necessary to reach the places
we've chosen to go.

-- John Dewey

I have four things to learn in life:
To think clearly without hurry or confusion;
To love everybody sincerely;
To act in everything with the highest motives;
To trust in God unhesitatingly.

-- Helen Keller

It is always a danger
to aspirants on the path
when they begin to believe
and act as if the ten thousand
idiots who so long ruled
and lived inside
have all packed their bags
and skipped town
or died.

-- Hafiz

Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God.

-- Leo Buscaglia

It is hard to be born as a human being, and hard to live the life of
one. It is even harder to hear of the path; and harder still to awake,
to rise and to follow. Yet the teaching of the Buddha is simple:
"Cease to do evil, learn to do good. And purify your mind."