If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can grow.

-- Elisabeth Kbler-Ross, M. D.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

-- Dan Rather with Peter Wyden

There is a crack in everything God has made.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

-- Aldous Huxley

What we call basic truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others.

-- Albert Camus

When anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

-- Washington Irving

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

-- George Fisher

Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing: all earth creatures, even the supernovas, sway between these two trees,and it never winds down.

-- Kabir

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

-- Jonathan Swift

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In the midst of bad luck, man shows what he is made of.

-- Yugoslav Proverb

An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

-- James A. Michener

We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't.

-- Frank A. Clark

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

-- Helen Keller

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Unawareness is the root of all evil.

-- Anonymous Egyptian Monk

Lecturer, entrepreneur and MBA business consultant, John Harricharan is the author of the award-winning book, "When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat." Spiritual Simplicity The Real Secret http://www.spiritual-simplicity.com/