“Love is the fabric of existence.” – Patrick McDonnell
"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?"
"If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others, why wouldn't we?"
"The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself."
"Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it—it's just easier if you do."
"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."
"Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem."
"You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life."
"The imagination is the workshop where all your plans are created and stored for future use."
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
"When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity… you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others."
"The pleasure arising from an object which is merely beautiful, is not so exquisite as that which arises from one that is grand and beautiful."