Mindfulness & Awareness

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.

Epictetus Discourses & Enchiridion

You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything.

Socrates Apology (via Plato)

to seek office oneself and not await compulsion is thought disgraceful. But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.

Plato The Republic & Dialogues

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius The Analects (Lunyu)

The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities. It is hidden but always present. I don't know who gave birth to it. It is older than God.

Laozi Tao Te Ching

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Zhuangzi Zhuangzi

Listen well, listen well, and mull it over in your thoughts!

Gautama Buddha Dhammapada & Sutta Pitaka

When in Love, body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist.

Rumi Masnavi & Divan-e Shams

No power can maintain itself if only hypocrites represent it.

Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra & Beyond Good and Evil

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus & Notebooks

I have needed God every day to defend myself against the abundance of thoughts.

Søren Kierkegaard Either/Or & Journals

English Translation: "The presence of a thought is like the presence of a beloved."Original (German): "Die Gegenwart eines Gedankens ist wie die Gegenwart einer Geliebten.

Arthur Schopenhauer Parerga and Paralipomena

The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.

Baruch Spinoza Ethics (Ethica)

There is nothing more remarkable in the life of Socrates than that he found time in his old age to learn to dance and play on instruments, and thought it was time well spent.

Michel de Montaigne Essais

Hindus are "a peaceful and innocent people, equally incapable of hurting others or of defending themselves.

Voltaire Candide & Philosophical Dictionary

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Leo Tolstoy War and Peace & A Calendar of Wisdom

Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments.

William Shakespeare First Folio & Sonnets

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

Mark Twain Notebooks & Autobiography

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First and Second Series

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

Henry David Thoreau Walden

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi The Story of My Experiments with Truth

I have always believed that exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.

Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

In remembering Maya Angelou, it is important to recall her commitment to the struggle for equality, not just for herself, or for women, or for African Americans. She was committed to peace and justice for all.

Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings & Essays

Einstein's groundbreaking equation E=mc², initially presented as m = L/c² in his 1905 paper, reveals the profound relationship between energy released and the corresponding decrease in mass.

Albert Einstein Ideas and Opinions

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan Cosmos & Pale Blue Dot