quotes I enjoy

why reinvent the wheel?

... someone else has already said it bettter than I ever could ...

ON LIFE

This too shall pass.

Tension is who you think you should be.
Relaxation is who you are.

Stand in your own space, and know you are there.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in
seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not
what they get for it, but what they become by it.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have. For example, the freedom of thought. Instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

If you are going through hell, keep going!

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater
than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels.
The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself.

The inferior teacher tells you that something is wrong with you and offers to fix it. The superior teacher tells you that something is right with you and helps you bring it forth.

ON LOVE

You must love yourself before you love another.
By accepting yourself and fully being what you are,
your simple presence can make others happy.

You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself,
and you will not find that person anywhere.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

Love isn't finding a perfect person.
It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Never let a problem to be solved become
more important than the person to be loved.

The price of hating other human beings is loving one's self less.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without
and know we cannot live within.

A mother is a person who seeing that there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that
you care for to be what they choose for themselves
without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Love contracts or expands around us with every choice we make.

The problem is not with your heart. If you completely open your mind, you will discover your heart has always been open. It only appears to be hesitant, confused, or closed when you mistake what you think about love for love itself.