"Faith furnishes prayer with wings,
without which it cannot soar to Heaven."
-St. John Climacus (525-600)

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
-Henry Vandyke (1852-1933)

"Meditation is not a means to an end.
It is both the means and the end."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place
by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.
Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life."
-Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul;
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all."
-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that we do
not see the one which has been opened for us."
-Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"God is the friend of silence.
See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…
We need silence to be able to touch souls."
-Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

"Time is
Too slow for those who Wait,
Too swift for those who Fear,
Too long for those who Grieve,
Too short for those who Rejoice,
But for those who Love
Time is not."
-Henry Vandyke (1852-1933)