"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34"
— Various (Holy Bible: NIV Student Bible)

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates."
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves
without wondering. "
— Augustine of Hippo

"Certainty is missing the point entirely."
— Anne Lamott (Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)

"If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding."
— Dalai Lama XIV

"God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive."
— Fanny J. Crosby

" Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds?"
— Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

"do it or don't do it but get on with it..."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti (Beginnings of Learning)

"You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there."
— Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

"Mempelajari pengetahuan itu adalah sama dengan memuji Allah SWT.
Menuntut pengetahuan adalah sama dengan melakukan perang di jalan Allah SWT.
Mengajarkan pengetahuan adalah sama dengan bersedekah, dan dengan mengajarkan pengetahuan kita akan mendapat pahala."
— Al-Ghazali

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"aku melihat nikmat pada dirimu, maka ikatlah ia dengan syukurmu"
— Aidh bin Abdullah Al-Qarni

"Feed my lambs, shepherd my sheep."
— Various (Holy Bible: King James Version, New Testament, Black Zipper Case, Dramatized)

"With stillness comes the benediction of Peace."
— Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose)

""Abandon hope.""
— Pema Chödrön

"A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…"
— Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

"Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. "
— Philip Pullman

"To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were."
— Neale Donald Walsch

"The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly."
— Krister Stendahl

" When da heart is hard and parched up, come upon me wid a shower of mercy.
When grace is lost from life, come wid a burst of song.
When tumultuous work raises its din on all sides shutting me out from beyond, come to me, my lord of silence, with thy peace and rest.
When my beggarly heart sits crouched, shut up in a corner, break open da door, my King, and come with the ceremony of a king.
When desire blinds my mind with delusion and dust, O thou Holy one, thou Wakeful, come with Thy Light and Thy Thunder. "
— Rabindranath Tagore

"They never opened the door which leads to the soul."
— Henry Miller

"Noi tutti siamo esiliati
entro lo cornici di uno strano quadro.
Chi sa questo, viva da grande,
Gli altri sono insetti."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"A temple, first of all, is a place of
prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man
seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy
sanctuary--a temple."
— B.H. Roberts

"To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God."
— Brian Kolodiejchuk (Mother Teresa, Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta)

"Psalms 16:11

"Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore."

President Harold B. Lee -
"You are equipped with strong bodies and educated minds. Add to these an unshakable faith in a divine providence and you have the tools by which you may build a successful life. Make each day your masterpiece and live so nobly that you may witness honestly each day: Whatever came to your hands this day, you did it to the best of your ability" (The Teachings of Harold B. Lee, p. 615).

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— Harold B. Lee

"Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn."
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"Doa adalah spiritropika yang memberi pengaruh kuat tanpa efek samping, kerusakan, dan kerugian sama sekali."
— Khalil A. Khavari, Ph. D

"Kita berada di jalan satu arah, mengantarkan kita dari kehidupan fisik temporer ke kehidupan roh yang abadi.
"
— Khalil A. Khavari, Ph. D

"Kesabaran adalah penjaga pintu hasrat. Kesabaran menganjurkan kontemplasi ketimbang tindakan reaksioner."
— Khalil A. Khavari, Ph. D

"What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence."
— Brian Kolodiejchuk (Mother Teresa, Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta)

"The smile that covered a "multitude of pains" was no hypocritical mask. She was trying to hide her sufferings - even from God! - so as not to make others, especially the poor, suffer because of them. When she promised to do "a little extra praying & smiling" for one of her friends, she was alluding to an acutely painful and costly sacrifice: to pray when prayer was so difficult and to smile when her interior pain was agonizing."
— Brian Kolodiejchuk (Mother Teresa, Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta)

"There is so much deep contradiction in my soul. Such deep longing for God - so deep that it is painful - a suffering continual - and yet not wanted by God - repulsed - empty - no faith - no love - no zeal. Souls hold no attraction - Heaven means nothing - to me it looks like an empty place - the thought of it means nothing to me and yet this torturing longing for God. Pray for me please that I keep smiling at Him in spite of everything. For I am only His - so He has every right over me. I am perfectly happy to be nobody even to God. . . .

Your devoted child in J.C.
M. Teresa"
— Brian Kolodiejchuk (Mother Teresa, Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta)

"The burning zeal....that had led her to India had apparently vanished. At the same time....she clung steadfastly to the faith she professed, and without a drop of consolation, labored wholeheartedly in her daily service....of the poor."
— Brian Kolodiejchuk (Mother Teresa, Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta)

"If you could know how happy I am, as Jesus' little spouse. No one....could I envy, because I am enjoying my complete happiness, even when I suffer something for my beloved Spouse."
— Brian Kolodiejchuk (Mother Teresa, Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta)