Favorite Quotes & Poems
“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
– Jack Kornfield
“You can search the whole universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than yourself. Since each and every person is so precious to themselves, Let the self-respecting harm no other being.”
– Buddha
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else.”
– Judy Garland
“Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you are bravely working.
Expecting the worst, you look, and instead, here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings.”
– Rumi
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
– Buddha
“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways- either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”
– The 14th Dalai Lama