“You know what love is?It is all kindness, generosity.”

“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”

“This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.”

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!”

“From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.”

“Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.”

“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”

“The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.”

“Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.”

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”

“On this path let the heart be your guide.”

“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”

“You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.”

“Don't regret what's happened.If it's in the past, LET IT GO.Don't even remember it!”

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”

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

“My goodness, there's nothing that feels better than to meditate, than to get quiet, and then to be at peace, and to tell someone you love them.”

“Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.”

“Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.”

“I have been long a sleeper; but I trustMy absence doth neglect no great designWhich by my presence might have been concluded.”

“It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?”

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”