Instead of buying your children all the things you never had you should teach your children all the things you were never taught. Material wears out, but knowledge stays.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

"You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter."

Lao Tsu

Practice not doing and everything will fall into place.

Ralph W. Sockman

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance when we are in the majority.

T.S. Eliot, from the Hollow Men

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Intimacy is not who you let touch your genitalia. Intimacy is who you text at 3am about your dreams and fears. Intimacy is giving someone your attention, when ten other people are asking for it. Intimacy is the person always in the back of your mind, no matter how distracted you are...

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Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. -Jane Howard

If it is possible, I can call the people I can lean on my sanctuary

You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life. -Zig Ziglar

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. -Roy Orbison

When the resistance is gone, the demons are gone. -Pema Chodron

Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you. -Rumi

When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness; a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are. -Adyashanti

If you love a flower, don't pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation. -Osho

When you lose yourself in another, when you confuse their problems for your own, when you deny another the freedom of pursuing their soul’s journey, you do a great disservice to two incredible human beings.

Tiny Buddha:

http://tinybuddha.com/blog/how-to-know-if-youre-with-the-right-person/