‘Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction’
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
‘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.’
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi
‘I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.’
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
‘Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.’
- Ben Okri
‘We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.’
- E. E. Cummings
‘I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.’
- Joseph Campbell
‘I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got, But there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven! No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace! The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.’
- Fra Giovanni Giocondo
‘A man,who realizes the potential of his mind by means of introspection and contemplation, he does not lack self-confidence. He has control over his mind and he is able to realize it’s full potential. ‘
- Sam Veda
‘Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.’
- Emily Dickinson
‘The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one’s own perfection, to make one’s every dream a reality.’
- Oscar Wilde
