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‘You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the think you think you cannot do.’
Eleanor Roosevelt
“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
e.e. cummings
‘As far as the inner voice is concerned, it is different for every single person, and there are no outward securities to guarantee it, such as reason, science, the church, or any teachings. But anyone whose eyes have been opened has no more need of these securities, than a man with a compass need laboriously to figure out where North or South will be from any future position.’
Mihajlo Mihajlov – ‘The mystical experiences of loss of freedom’
The person who walks alone is likely to find him/herself in places no-one has ever seen before.’
Albert Einstein
Truly yours, Albert Camus
‘Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.’
Albert Schweizer
Ecce Homo
Yes! I know from whence I came!
Ever hungry like the flame,
Glowing, I consume myself.
Light shines forth from all I seize.
Coal remains of all I leave.
Flame, I am indeed!
– Friedrich Nietzsche
‘Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.’
Albert Einstein
I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die.
by Juan Ramon Jimenez
“…When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them.
Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness,
without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces,
or to intrude into each other’s hearts.”
Albert Schweitzer
Until this ‘die and be born again’ is yours, you are but a sorry tenant in a gloomy world.
Goethe
You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a religious feeling of his own… His religious feeling takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.
Albert Einstein
“Life is not waiting for the storms to pass; it is to learn to dance in the rain.”
Seneca
“Raise your children in beauty and they’ll find their way in life.”
A nature spirit – from the book, Nature Spirits and What they Say
Eckhart Tolle
we call them ordinary things.
Hans Christian Andersen
Rudolf Steiner
And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.
I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self,
and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help
and patience, and a certain difficult repentance
long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself
from the endless repetition of the mistake
which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.”
DH Lawrence
“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind.
To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.”
Buddha
…When people have light in themselves, it will shine out from them.
Then we get to know each other as we walk together in the darkness,
without needing to pass our hands over each other’s faces,
or to intrude into each other’s hearts.
Albert Schweitzer
Yes! I know from whence I came!
Ever hungry like the flame,
Glowing I consume myself.
Light shines forth from all I seize.
Coal remains of all I leave.
Flame, I am indeed!
Ecce Homo – Friedrich Nietzsche
Man has his being in truth — if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying, but of acting against one’s conviction.
Novalis
And the reason why all men honor love, is because it looks up and not down; aspires and not despairs.
Emerson
I know now that the world is not filled with strangers.
It is full of other people – waiting only to be spoken to.
Beth Day
“The meaning of human life is the establishment
of the kingdom of God on earth. And that means
the replacement of the egoistical, hating, dictatorial
and irrational things with a life of
brotherhood, freedom and reason.“
Leo Tolstoy
“We do not become free by refusing to
acknowledge something above us, but by
respecting something above us.”
Goethe
I know now that the world is not filled with strangers.
It is full of other people – waiting only to be spoken to.
Beth Day
I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die.
by Juan Ramon Jimenez