Wisdom Quotes, page 114

“People want you to be happy. Don’t keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.”

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”

“When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.”

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”

“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”

“And you. When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

“The cure for pain is in the pain.”

“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”

“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.”

“From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!”

“That name no longer has any meaning for me.”

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

“Hope is a waking dream.”

“Still desiring, we live without hope.”

“If your hope is worth anything, it will purify you from your sins.”

“For a moment hope, bright and cruel as a knife, presented itself to me. It took every ounce of strength I had to turn away.”

“This is what hope does to you when you're not used to it. It is very like being drunk. You don't realize how badly you're impaired until you see the results of your spree.”

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

“Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.”

“It is to hope, though hope were lost.”