‘If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.’

- Thich Nhat Hanh

‘When I’m not thanked at all I’m thanked enough’

- Henry Fielding

‘A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access’

- Friedrich Nietzsche

‘We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.’

- Elbert Hubbard

‘There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.’

- Chogyam Trungpa

‘If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.’

- Hazel Henderson

‘Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.’

- Orison Swett Marden

‘Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.’

- Vaclav Havel

‘If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.’

- Albert Einstein

‘Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.’

- Howard Thurman