You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring you. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. 

So- I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

~Jalaluddin Rumi

Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,

there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other' doesn't make sense any more.

~Jalaluddin Rumi

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

"When we understand the needs that motivate our own and other's behavior, we have no enemies."

~Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

~Richard Bach

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

~Jean-Paul Sartre

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

~Carl Jung

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you want to see in the world.

~Mahatma Gandhi

I offer you peace. I offer you love.  I offer you friendship.  I see your beauty.  I hear your need.  I feel your feelings.  My wisdom flows from the Highest Source.  I salute that Source in you.  Let us work together for unity and love.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex.  It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction.

~Albert Einstein

New ideas pass through three periods:  "It can't be done."  "It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing."  "I knew it was a good idea all along!"

~Arthur C. Clarke

No problem can be solved with the same consciousness that created it.

~Albert Einstein
 

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

~Buddha

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

~Albert Einstein