“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” – Dalai Lama
“What you are is the Universe’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to the Universe.” – Hans Urs von Balthasar (adapted)
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs, speaking on passion with a spiritual perspective
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.” – Lao Tzu
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.” – Buddha
“The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.” – Swami Sivananda
“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message; that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.” – Dalai Lama
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The Universe does not create a lock without its key, nor does it create problems without their solutions.” – Rumi (adapted)
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama
“Where there is love there is life.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released.” – Marianne Williamson
“When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.” – Bhagavad Gita
“Silence is sometimes the best answer.” – Dalai Lama
“The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.” – Buddha
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” – Confucius
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.” – Buddha
“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” – Dalai Lama
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – Dalai Lama
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama
“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.” – Thomas Merton
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
“The Universe resides in every human being.” – Swami Vivekananda (adapted)
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
“It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” – Dalai Lama
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – Dalai Lama
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix
“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” – Rumi
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.” – Buddha
“The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.” – Native American Proverb
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
