Meditation Quotes

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

This is the real secret of life

to be completely engaged with

what you are doing in the here and now.

Hope begins in the dark,

the stubborn hope that if you just show up

and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.

It is to the very last degree dangerous to trust to chance.

Every morning we are born again.

What we do today is what matters most.

You can fail at what you don’t want,

so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness

of the woods before sunrise.

Between two evils,

I always pick the one I never tried before.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone

who can do him absolutely no good.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart

and lean not on your own understanding.

We hold these truths to be self

evident,

that all men are created equal...

— The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Opportunities are made,

not given.

Try to learn to let what is simply be.

The journey is the reward.

Press forward.

Do not stop,

Do not linger in your journey,

but strive for the mark set before you

George Whitefield

It’s fine to celebrate success,

but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize

how little we understand about life, ourselves,

and the world around us.

In preparing for battle,

I have always found that plans are useless,

but planning is indispensable.

The time is always right to do what is right.