Compassion Lives In Our Hearts

Spirituality for me is recognising that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it, and it is always a part of me.
( Oprah Winfrey )

Fear grows out of the things we think.
It lives in our minds.
Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.
( Barbara Garrison )

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
( Helen Keller)

When you relinquish the desire to control your future you obtain happiness.
( Nicole Kidman )

Before you speak ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?
( Sai Baba )

Recognise that you have the courage within, and live the life of your dreams.

Neglecting valuable advice or criticism is sometimes the cause of our own misery.

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say, a silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.
( Roy Orbison )

The way to find what is possible is by going beyond possible to the impossible.

We become failures only when we begin to blame someone else.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality.
And then there are those who turn one into the other.
( Douglas Everett )

It’s who you are, and not what you have, that makes others respect you.

Do not wish to be anything other than what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Dreams won’t always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they’re usually related to what your soul wants for you.
( Kelly Cutrone )

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go we take a little of each other everywhere.

It is never too late to become the person you were meant to be.

I think how we live our lives is our own doing, and we cannot fully hope on dreams and stars.
But dreams and stars can guide us, perhaps.
What life are we living, if we don’t live by our hearts?
Not a true one.
And the person living it is not the true you.
( Susan Fletcher )

Those you choose to be in your life influence the direction of your life.

Our behaviour when no one is watching is more important than when others are watching.

By the truth we are undone.
Life is a dream.
It is the waking that kills us.
He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
( Virginia Woolf )

To change our lives, we must first change our minds.

We don’t always know what makes us happy.
We know, instead, what we think should.
We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.
We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents.
The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.
The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.
( Julie Cameron )

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
( Gilbert K. Chesterton )

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
( Soren Kierkegaard )

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.
( George MacDonald )

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one’s level of peace of mind.
( Sydney Madwed )

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
( Sai Baba )

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought.
What is necessary is only to try to think them again.
( Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
( Leonardo da Vinci )

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
( Augustus Hare )

I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right.
That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me.
We all have to take defeats in life.
( Muhammad Ali )

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
( Mahatma Gandhi )

After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’
( Anna Quindlen )

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.
It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
( C. S. Lewis )

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
( John Ruskin )

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
( Og Mandino )

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing.
Guess it.
( Antonio Machado )

There wouldn’t be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.
( Frances Clark )

If you could have one wish, what would it be?
We all have hopes and dreams that we do almost anything to make real.
And if we get lucky, and our wish is granted, maybe that’s what we call happiness.
( Sakura )

Even when I’m alone I have real good company.
Dreams and imaginations and pretendings.
( L.M. Montgomery )

Don’t be pushed by your problems.
Be led by your dreams.
( Ralph Waldo Emerson )

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is.
At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.
They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives.
( Paulo Coelho )

We had so many dreams as children.
Where do they go when we grow?
Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life?
Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?
( Helen Hollick )

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.
( Richelle E. Goodrich )

We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
( Diogenes Laertius )

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
( Joseph Campbell )

Whether you live to be 50 or 100 makes no difference, if you made no difference in the world.
( Jarod Kintz )

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
( Albert Einstein )

There are three things all wise men fear.
The sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
( Patrick Rothfuss )

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
( Charles Dickens )

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
( George R.R. Martin )

Wisdom cannot be imparted.
Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
( Hermann Hesse )

Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles.
Sadness, loss, illness, dying and death.
If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.
( Goldie Hawn )

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
( Milton Berle )

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them..
You’ll definitely be happier.
( Simone Elkeles )

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
( Anthony Robbins )

Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you.
Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.
( Jason Mraz )

We don’t receive wisdom.
We must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
( Marcel Proust )

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
( Galileo Galilei )

Never ignore someone’s problem.
What may be nothing to you, may be everything to them.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
( Diana, Princess of Wales )

Try not to become a man of success.
Rather become a man of value.
( Albert Einstein )