The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it will destroy the world you live in. But if your motive is love of truth and life, you need not be afraid.

--Sri Nisargadatta

Life is in the breath; he who half-breathes, half-lives.

--Ancient Proverb

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

- Rene Descartes

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies, and so a man.

- Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing either good or bad,

But thinking makes it so.

- Hamlet

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;

the wise grows it under his feet.

- James Oppenheim

Each indecision brings its own delays,

and days are lost lamenting over lost days.

What you can do or think you can do, begin it,

For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

--Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

Better keep yourself clean and bright;

you are the window through which you must see the world.

- George Bernard Shaw

We cannot tell what may happen to us in this strange medley of life,

But we can decide what happens in us--how we take it, what we do with it--

That is what really counts in the end.

--Joseph Fort Newton