Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

The timing of events is a splendor of wonder.

clouds may fill the sky but they are not the sky....

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are not signs of mental illness, but of growing intelligence.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Biologically we’re all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that’s not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.