“One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.”
-– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“No one can find inner peace except by working,not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.”
— Peace Pilgrim
“Let there be peace on earth.And let it begin with me.”
— Jill Jackson Miller
“Stop! Breathe deeply.Begin bringing peace to the outer world by regaining your own inner peace.Choose love, choose gratitude,choose forgiveness, choose peace.Begin with your own inner peace.Then use that inner peace as a platform from which to approach the outer world with perspective, understanding, and patience.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.”
— Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
— Stephen King
“Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.'”
— John Bradshaw
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”
— William Shakespeare
“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope.”
— George Eliot
“Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.”
— Lao-tzu
“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.”
— Sufi epigram