Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

—Helen Keller

You want to know how to overcome despair. I will tell you. By helping others, overcome despair.

 —Elie Wiesel

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.

—T.S. Eliot

More wisdom is latent in things-as-they-are than in all the words men use.

 —Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

 —Alfred North Whitehead

The aspect of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.                                                                   —Thich Nhat Hanh

Evil is any abstraction that allows you to look at someone and not see the person.

—Lee Thorn

The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths, the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity.

—Henry David Thoreau

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s light somewhere near.

—Ruth Renkle

We think that we are making a voyage, but it is the journey that makes us.

—Nicolas Bouvier

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all thoughts are drained.

—Arthur Somers Roche

The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

—Henry Miller

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

—Eudora Welty

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead.

—James Baldwin

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is “look under foot.” Your are always nearer the divine and true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars. Every place is the center of the world.

—John Burroughs