Quote-of-the-day

[Geoff-Allen]

"Contrary creatures that we are, we want to believe that our innermost thoughts are unique to us, and yet we desperately seek communion and confirmation, too."

Beyond Belief - John Horgan

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“We should have much peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.“

~ Thomas à Kempis

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“Happiness comes from counting our blessings, appreciating little things – a flower by a stream, seagulls circling over the ocean, laughter of little children, a call from a friend, a challenge met. Happiness comes from celebrating the moment - not waiting for all our problems to be solved. Happiness comes from cultivating a thankful heart."

~ Author Unknown

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you."

~ Eileen Caddy

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Just because someone doesn't love you the way that you want, doesn't mean that they don't love you the best way they know how."

~ Source unknown

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”

~ Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott Quotes (Author of Bird by Bird)

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy."

~ Napoleon Hill

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"To train in compassion, then, is to know all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone."

~ Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel."

~ Harold Kushner

Our people page on Harold Kushner

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion. This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque or synagogue, no need for complicated philosophy, doctrine, or dogma. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compassion. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need."

~ 14th Dalai Lama

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought."

~ Matthieu Ricard

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. People are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present."

~ John Lubbock

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"Be around the person whose opinions make you want to tear out your hair. Practice opening your heart to them and finding compassion for them instead."

Why Your Ego Doesn’t Want You To Play Outside | Inspiration and Encouragement for Mindful Living

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness."

~ Deepak Chopra

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice."

~ W. Somerset Maugham

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."

~ Bertrand Russell

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

~ Erich Fromm

 

[Geoff-Allen]

“I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.”

~ Louise Hay

 

[Geoff-Allen]

"If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator."

~ W. Beran Wolfe