“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.”
Emily Dickinson
“I am the fool whose life’s been spent between what’s said and what is meant.”
Carrie Newcomer
“All the suffering in the world comes from wanting happiness for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from wanting happiness for others.”
Shantideva
“Harmful beings are everywhere like space itself. Impossible it is that all should be suppressed. But let this angry mind alone be overthrown, And it’s as though all foes had been subdued.
To cover all the earth with sheets of leather—Where could such amounts of skin be found? But with the leather soles of just my shoes It is as though I cover all the earth!”
Shantideva
“We behave spiritually as I sometimes do in the gym: taking the elevator to the third floor in order to use the stair-climbing machine.”
Mary Rose O’Reilley
“Let your life speak.”
George Fox
