PEACEFUL QUOTES FOR THE SOUL

I exist as I am, that is enough, if no other in the world be aware I sit content, and if each and all be aware I sit content. Walt Whitman

Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
From the Sanskrit

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes

If we do not radiate the Light of Christ around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase.
Mother Teresa

The real troublemakers are anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred. With them, problems cannot be solved. Though we may have temporary success, ultimately our hatred or anger will create futher difficulties. Anger makes for swift solutions. Yet, when we face problems with compassion, sincerity, and good motivation, our solutions may take longer, but ultimately they are better.
The Dalai Lama

God comes into our lives when we do things that make us truly human. When we help the poor, when we speak out for justice, when we get over our exaggerated sense of our own importance, when we learn to respond with child-like awe to the sun shining in the summer or to the snow falling in winter, when we get over being stuck on ourselves, we make room in our lives for God.
Rabbi H.Kushner

I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land. Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live -- men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization -- because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Dec 1964)
Dr. Martin Luther King

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. Albert Einstein

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

O beloved, why has not Love sufficiently overwhelmed you and engulfed you in her abyss? Alas! And why do you not touch God deeply enough in the abyss of His Nature, which is so unfathomable? Sweet love, give yourself for Loves's sake fully to God in love...
Hadewijch (Thirteenth Century poet and mystic)

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 von Goethe

You cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us..how we can take it, what we do with it..and that is what really counts in the end.

Joseph Fort Newton

Every thing there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

Langston Hughes

One who commences prayer should imagine that for the delight of his Lord, he is starting to plant a garden in some very unfruitful soil, full of weeds. His Majesty must be asked to pull up the bad plants, and put good ones in their place. But we will suppose this is already done, when a soul has not only determined, but is resolved to make use of mental prayer. And now, by God's help, we must endeavor, like good gardeners, to make these plants grow. We should take care to water them, so they will not wither, but bring forth flowers of such sweet frangrance as may please our Lord. Then He may take pleasure in often coming into this garden, and delighting Himself with our virtues.
St. Teresa of Avila(Doctor of the Church)

So these are ours; faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is Love.
St. Paul Corinthians 13:13

And yet I do love a kind of light, melody, fragrance, food, embracement when I love my God; for He is the light, the melody, the fragrance, the food, the embracement of my inner self - there where is a brillance that space cannot contain, a sound that time cannot carry away, a perfume that no breeze disperses, a taste undimisnished by eating, a clinging together that no saiety will sunder. This is what I love when I love my God.
St. Augustine

Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery,: you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not convet, and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one saying, (namely)" You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no evil to the neighbor: hence, love is the fulfillment of the law.
St. Paul, Romans13 8:10

When you can feel the warmth of the sunshine, but cannot see it. Or feel the coolness of a gentle breeze, but cannot grasp it. When our dreams are just a fleeting thought that no longer matters. Remember to deeply reach within, to stretch your mind, to awaken the real you, as we say goodnight to self doubt and the inner blindness.
Mary

This might sound arrogant, but I told the terrorist. "You can harm my body,you can harm my mind, but you can't harm my soul. That is mine."
Terry Waite - International humanitarian envoy who became a hostage himself trying to bring other hostages to freedom in Beirut. He spent five years as a hostage, four in solitary confinement.

The righteous will never be moved: they will be remembered forever
Psalm 112:6

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington

When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop. kahlil Gibran

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
LUKE 12:34

God is nearer to us than our own spirit.
Julian of Norwich

If God created the shadows, it was to bring out the light.
John XXIII

At the end of our life we shall all be judged by charity.
St. John of the Cross

You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.
anonymous

In times of quietness, our hearts should be like a tree,lifting their branches to heaven to draw down strength which they will need to face the storms that will surely come in life.
Salesians of Don Bosco

Look within!... The secret is inside you.
Hui-neng

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.
Horace

I love you, Lord, my strength, Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliver, My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, my saving horn, my stronghold! Praised be the Lord, I exclaim!
I have been delivered from my enemies.

David's song after the Lord rescued him from the clutches of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul in Psalm 18 3:4

"My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior. - Mary, mother of Jesus in Luke 1 46:49