"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think"
— Socrates

"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. "
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be."
— Neale Donald Walsch

"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death."
— Eckhart Tolle

" There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
— Indira Gandhi

"Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now."
— Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God : An Uncommon Dialogue)

"The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of the mountain, or in the petals of a flower."
— Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values)

"To find yourself, think for yourself."
— Socrates

"Trust in Allah...but tie your camel"
— The Prophet

"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
— Socrates

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
— Socrates

"In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
— Abraham Lincoln

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

"I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right."
— Albert Einstein

"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
— Albert Einstein

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."
— Muhammad Ali

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self Reliance)

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson