Quotes on the Journey of the Soul

I don't want to acheive immortality through my work; I want to acheive it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Confucius

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Eleanor Roosevelt

We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell

Do not store up treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy, and where theives can break in and steal. Instead, store up treasures in heaven, which neither moth and rust can destroy and theives can't steal. For whever your treasure is, that's where your heart is.

Jesus

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

One has seen nothing until one has come fact to face with oneself. Then each and every moment hosts the ultimate miracle, wherever you are. Truth and love are in the palms of our hands.

Lama Surya Das

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

It's a funny thing about life - if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspaper that morning. . .a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

Joseph Campbell

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

I do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; I seek what they sought.

Basho, haiku poet

One need not travel to distant lands, seek exotic mystical experiences, master esoteric mantras and treatises, or cultivate extraordinary states of mind in order to acheive a radical change of heart and inner transformation. Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to see. It's the old adage all over again: You don't need to see different things, but rather to see things differently. . . Spirituality is a matter of self-discovery, rather than of becoming something else.

Lama Surya Das

A time is coming when you will worship God neither on this mountain or that temple. . .A time is coming when the true worshipers will worship God in spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers God seeks.

Jesus

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Woody Allen

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

They most often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. . . Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success acheived.

Hellen Keller

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

Every day you make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Hellen Keller

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honours acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

Confucius