Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

- Anne Frank

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

- Emily Dickinson

Religion is not knowledge, not content of feeling ... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"I cry due to laugh , if I stop laughing I will just cry."

"You don't have to pick up
the rose to sense her fragrance."

Within the eternal changeless nature of Truth, we are not our busy, fractured minds. Yet it is crucial to acknowledge that we believe we are indeed fractured. Every day we accept our ego thoughts and feelings as our only thoughts and feelings.

Even though our ego represents the conflicted voices and lessons we stockpiled during our formative years, we react to them as our essence, our individuality, how we "feel" about things. If we are honest, we will admit that this part of us is our primary teacher and guide. We are not on a spiritual path; we are on an ego path.

Obviously, we can have the concept that we are not our ego (our inner demons, shadow self, mortal self, dreaming mind, busy mind), but in a thousand ways each day, we demonstrate that we live through and for our worldly identity.

- Hugh Prather, The Little Book of Letting Go

Nature never repeats itself. Since time began on this planet there have never been two snowflakes alike or two raindrops the same. And every daisy is different from every other daisy. Our fingerprints are different and we are meant to be different. When we can accept this then there is no competition and no comparison. To try to be like another soul is to shrivel our soul. We have come to this planet to express who we are.

- Louise Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

I like too many things and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

- Jack Kerouac, On The Road

The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.

- Ernest Hemingway, Farewell To Arms

And when you look directley at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all. To see him you must see what he saw...

- Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motercycle Maintence

Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

- A. A. Milne, Winne the Pooh

Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent that charming thing we call 'society.' Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare.

- Stephen King,The Stand

Why do we trust one another so little? I know there must be a reason, but still I sometimes think it's horrible that you find you can never really confide in people, even in those who are nearest to you.

- Anne Frank

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.

- Margery Williams,The Velveteen Rabbit

No explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (film)

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

- Plato

Truth said in simplest of words will always be greater than the lies told with all complexity and decoration.
- Rebellion

at times you discover that you dont have good clothes but you still put on the greatest attire'a smile' from; mikky

“...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.”

― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy

“When we dislike someone, or feel threatened by someone, the natural tendency is to focus on something we dislike about the person, something that irritates us. Unfortunately, when we do this-instead of seeing the deeper beauty of the person and giving them energy-we take energy away and actually do them harm. All they know is that they suddenly feel less beautiful and less confident, and it is because we sapped their energy.”

― James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy