"Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all; forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all; faith means believing the unbelievable, or it is no virtue at all; And to hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all." ~ G.K. Chesterton.

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"It is true that overcoming obstacles and difficulties accelerates spiritual progress. The most serious lifetime difficulties, like severe psychiatric illness or physical disability, may be signs of life progress, not regress. In my opinion, it is often the very strongest souls who have chosen to shoulder these burdens because they provide great opportunities for growth." ~ http://www.well.com/user/bobby/SC/cr_quote.html

"Things are not as they seem, nor are they otherwise." ~ Zen proverb

"What is the sound of one hand clapping?" ~ Zen koan

"If I am OK with me, I have no need to make you wrong." ~ source unknown

"You Can Rise No Higher Than Your Lowest Opinion of Another." ~ Chuck Gallozzi

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: "Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time." When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

"When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." ~ Dalai Lama

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." ~ Theodore Rubin

"They called me crazy, I called them crazy, and damn them! They outvoted me!" ~ Nathaniel Lee

Lord help me to be the person my dog thinks I am.

"This inner peace stuff is tough on the ol' coconut." ~ Homer Simpson

"Relate yourself to every man as if you were in his place." ~ The Urantia book

"The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't say much." ~ Germain G. Glidden

"I was taught that when I am racked with a resentment, anger, hate towards another, that is driving me nuts. All I need to do, is pray for that person for two weeks, wishing that they would have the joy, happiness, gifts/wealth that I would want to have given to me. It was hard to try the first few times, but it always works." ~ Richard Nordeen

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us." ~ Saint Augustine

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts" ~ Aurelius

"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." ~ John Stuart Mill

"A real friend is one who takes the hand of his friend in time of distress and helplessness." ~ Afghan proverb

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." ~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

"Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow." ~ Anonymous

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers." ~ Mignon McLaughlin

"Not all those who wander are lost." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." ~ Anatole France

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well." ~ Foe Ancis

"Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else."

"Do unto others ... then run."

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and and still likes you." ~ Elbert Hubbard

"You can observe a lot by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

"The simplest questions are the hardest to answer." ~ Northrop Frye

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination." ~ Roy M. Goodman

"Love is your window to the Infinite. Enjoy the view." ~ author unknown

"Words were invented to describe inner and outer pictures and feelings which go ahead with them. In using words we all become magicians, movie directors or sound artists, creating a powerful kaleidoscope of picturesque landscapes and imaginations. Some find this natural. I find it highly magical and mystical." ~ Hans Taeger

"Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment." ~ Osho

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I need it most. ~ Swedish proverb

"Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." ~ Anonymous

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened." ~ Douglas Adams

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." ~ Thoreau

"The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings." ~ Jim Warner

"You have forgotten what it was like to be loved without condition. You do not remember the experience of the love of God. And so you try to imagine what God's love must be like, based on what you see of love in the world." ~ Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God

"That which you judge, you will one day become." ~ Neale again

"The love you withhold is the pain that you carry." ~ Anon

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Work as if you have no money. Love as if you have never been hurt. Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. And live everyday as if it were your last." ~ Anonymous

"May all beings learn how to nourish themselves with joy each day." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul." ~ Alexandra Stoddard

"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names." ~ Elbert Green Hubbard

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." ~ Galbraith's Law

"There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know." ~Roger H. Lincoln

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite." ~ Sam Levenson

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." ~ C. G. Jung

"Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions." ~ Gandhi

"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. " ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

"Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem." ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right." ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

"My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating." ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

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"When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future." ~ Zig Ziglar

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean." ~ Goethe

"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness." ~ Les Brown

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." ~Thomas Edison

"Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy." ~ Spike Milligan

"Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars." ~ Hobart Brown

"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would take many men many months to equal it." ~ Merle Meacham

"Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life." ~ Andrew Brown

"We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." ~ R. Wilensky

"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor." ~ Wernher von Braun

"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law." ~ Buddha (563-483 B.C.)

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." ~ Robert Muller

"A person's ability to forgive is in proportion to the greatness of his soul." ~ Author Unknown

"Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else." ~ Andre Gide

"When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"Give, and give without any condition - and you will know what love is. I cannot define it. I can show you the path to grow it. I can show you how to put in a rose bush, how to water it, how to give fertilizers to it, how to protect it. Then one day, out of the blue, comes the rose flower, and your home is full of the fragrance. That's how love happens." ~ Osho

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"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in 7 years!" ~ Mark Twain

"Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps." ~ Emo Phillips

�Character is defined by what we are willing to do when the spotlight has been turned off, when the applause has died down, and no one is around to give us credit�

"So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs." ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Teachers, religious leaders - even friends, or so-called friends -- take over where the parents leave off. They demand that we feel the only feelings they want and expect from us. They demand all the time that we preform feelings for them. We're like actors-turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom ... endlessly searching for a half-forgotten shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder ... the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces." ~ Jim Morrison

"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start." ~ Mother Teresa

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell." ~ C.S. Lewis

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you." ~ Mortimer J. Adler

"Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards." ~ R. A. Dickson

"There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish." ~ Alfred Adler

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The Optimist Creed

Promise yourself . . .

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

Symptoms of inner peace -

Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been expose to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to what has, up to now, been a fairly stable condition of conflict in the world.

Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:

A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.

An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.

A loss of interest in judging other people.

A loss of interest in judging self.

A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.

A loss of interest in conflict.

A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom.)

Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.

Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.

Frequent attacks of smiling.

An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen.

An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.

WARNING:

If you have some or all of the above symptoms, please be advised that your condition of inner peace may be so far advanced as to not be curable. If you are exposed to anyone exhibiting any of these symptoms, remain exposed only at your own risk.

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http://www.expressionsofspirit.com/symptoms.htm

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Quote garden has this 2 say about friendship -

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me.

A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

For MUCH more from this site -

http://www.quotegarden.com/

Or google it :)

For even more quotes sites -

http://grjallen.fortunecity.com/may2001.htm

Leads us here -

http://www.consciouslivingfoundation.org/quotationsOnCompassion.htm

From March 20 Journal 2012 -

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9074.Thich_Nhat_Hanh

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