Quotes

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.” – William James

“There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” – Morpheus, The Matrix

“From joy springs all creation, By joy it is sustained, Toward joy it proceeds, And to joy it returns.” – Mundaka Upanishad

“Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

“Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character: and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.” – John Stuart Mill

“For now, she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself; a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others…Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience, but as a wedge of darkness. Losing personality, losing the fret, the hurry, the stir; and there rose to her lips always some exclamation of triumph over life when things came together in this peace, this rest, this eternity.” – Virginia Woolf