"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
— Richard Bach

"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

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

"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

"There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"In separateness lies the world's greatest misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone."
— Kahlil Gibrán

"Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you."
— Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

"There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met."
— Jim Henson (Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets)

"God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God."
— Albert Einstein

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"We love the things we love for what they are."
— Robert Frost

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself."
— Robert Frost

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
— Robert Frost

"We dance round in a ring and suppose, / But the Secret sits in the middle and knows."
— Robert Frost

"
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who  
think they talk sense.


"
— Robert Frost

"Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world."
— Robert Frost