A collection of quotes that have inspired, moved, and stayed with me.

  • Quote – Dalai Lama

    In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision. – Dalai Lama

  • Quote – Winston Churchill

    Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill

  • Quote – Eckhart Tolle

    Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure for fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer. – Eckhart Tolle

  • “Letters to my Son”

    It is a mystery why we fall in love; It is a mystery how it happens It is a mystery when it comes; It is a mystery why some love grows And it is a mystery why some love fails. You can analyze this mystery and look for reasons and causes, But you will never…

  • Quote – Comte Debussy-Rabutin

    Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, It enkindles the great. – Comte Debussy-Rabutin

  • Quote – Salman Rushdie

    We must live, I’m afraid, with the shadows of imperfection. – Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

  • “Wisdom”

    When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened gate, When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange — my youth. – Sara Teasdale, “Wisdom”

  • “Desiderata”

    Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons,…

  • “On Children”

    Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may…

  • Quote – Khalil Gibran

    Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ― Khalil Gibran, The Broken Wings

  • Quote – Albert Schweitzer

    Ethics is nothing other than Reverence for Life. Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil. – Albert Schweitzer

  • “Love Letters in the Sand”

    Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful. ― Khalil Gibran, The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran, “Love Letters in the Sand”

  • Quote – Salman Rushdie

    Who What am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not…

  • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

    And indeed there will be time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, Rubbing its back upon the window-panes; There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and…

  • Quote – Khalil Gibran

    It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. ― Khalil Gibran

  • “On Marriage”

    You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one…

  • Quote – Milan Kundera

    For everyone is pained by the thought disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. One morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension…

  • “Loving and Beloved”

    There never yet was honest man That ever drove the trade of love; It is impossible, nor can Integrity our ends promove: For Kings and Lovers are alike in this That their chief art in reigne dissembling is. Here we are lov’d, and there we love, Good nature now and passion strive Which of the…

  • Quote – T.S.Eliot

    Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. – T.S.Eliot, an excerpt from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

  • Quote – Albert Schweitzer

    The tradegy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. – Albert Schweitzer