The more we listen carefully to one another, the closer we come to an intimate connection with the greater whole.

We are challenged to become beacons for change in the world and to have the courage to ‘hope beyond imagination’.

Quaker Epistle

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?

Helen Keller

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

Henry David Thoreau

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Albert Camus

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his about and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.

François-René de Chateaubriand

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn to change

Carl Rogers

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel Boorstin

The thought once occurred to me that if one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, one at which the most fearsome murdered would tremble, shrinking from it in advance, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation

Aristotle

The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

John McGahern

To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offence or the disadvantage of anyone

Buckminster Fuller

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

What is done to children they will do to society.

Karl Menninger

Make me a clean heart O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 51

Days of darkness still may meet me,Sorrow's path I oft may tread;But his presence still is with me,By his guiding hand I'm led

Anon

I am who I am because of who we all are

Luther King

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but your are worthy of love and belonging.

Brown

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

Virginia Woolf

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

Do not come to the end of your life journey to find you have not lived. For many come to the point of leaving the earth and when they gaze back, they see the joy and the beauty that could not be theirs because of the fears they lived.

American Indian Clearwater

To understand others is to have knowledge.
To understand oneself is to be illuminated.
To conquer others needs strength.
To conquer oneself is harder still.

Tao Te Ching

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of values.

Albert Einstein

He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.

Nietzsche

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha

The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment.

Arlene Blum

Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and endless plans. That the moment one definitely commits oneself then providence moves too.  All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issue from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

Goethe

You must act only for this day and this hour,
Because tomorrow is unfixed and difficult to know.
You must meditate without wasting time,
thinking that there is only this day and this hour.
After that it becomes truly easy.

Dogen

Nothing in the world is single
All things by a law divine
In one another’s essence mingle.

Shelley

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anaпs Nïn

A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.

Marcus Aurelius

Every day you have to do something to make your heart dance. It could just be looking at the sky. And on the days when you can’t even let your heart dance, because you are in a heavy situation or too depressed, you have to do something to let other people’s hearts dance.

Yoko Ono

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no such thing as chance;
and that which seems to us blind accident
actually stems from the
deepest source of all.

Friedrich von Schiller

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Carl Jung

Wisdom is gained through pain and reflection.

Aeschylus

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

Montaigne

Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow.

T S Eliot

One of the things I learnt when I was negotiating was that until I changed in myself I could not change others.

Nelson Mandela

If a man will begin in certainties, he shall end in doubts;
but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections.

Joseph Addison

The ideal is in thyself; the impediment, too, is in thyself.

Thomas Carlyle

John Donne remained steadfast in his belief that we, humans, are at once a catastrophe and a miracle

John Donne by Katherine Rundell