"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." 

-Albert Einstein

"Yesterday is gone. 

Tomorrow has not 

yet come. 

We have only 

today."

-Mother Teresa

"The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."

-Stephen Hawking

"No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path..."

-Gautama Buddha

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"

-Winston Churchill

Knowing others is intelligence;

knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

-Laozi 

(as interpreted by Stephen Mitchell)

"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."

-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,

That I am meek and gentle with these butchers"

-William Shakespeare (from Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I)

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."

-Albert Einstein

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one."

-Rumi (translation by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski)

"Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility. In that state of mind you can deal with situations with calmness and reason, while keeping your inner happiness."

-Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

"I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there."

-Mother Teresa

" 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' —that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

-John Keats

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

-Isaac Newton

"We need to be the change we wish to see in the world."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"My 

true 

religion 

is 

Kindness."

-Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."

-Francis Bacon

"Love rests on no foundation.

It is an endless ocean,

with no beginning or end."

-Rumi

"Time's glory is to command contending kings,

To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light."

-William Shakespeare 

"Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."

-Winston Churchill

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

-Gautama Buddha

"Truth and clarity are complementary"

-Neils Bohr

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

-Albert Einstein

"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."

-Leo Tolstoy