Not responding is a response – we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.

• Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

• Dalai Lama

We have met the enemy and he is us.

• Walt Kelly

 

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the

narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the

broader concerns of all humanity.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

It is possible that the next Buddha

will not take the form of an individual.

The next Buddha may take the form of a community,

a community practicing understanding and loving kindness,

a community practicing mindful living.

• Thich Nhat Hanh

 

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together becomes reality.

• John Lennon

 

I can see myself in all things and all people around me.

• Sanskrit Phrase

 

This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us,

it’s with us wherever we are.

• Pema Chodron

 

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we’re going to be more cheerful in the future, it’s because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

• Pema Chodron