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I rejoice heartily in the Lord, in my God is the joy of my soul;
for he has clothed me with a robe of salvation,
and wrapped me in a mantle of justice,
like a bride bedecked with her jewels.
-Little Office
True humbleness of heart is always an act of acceptance of God and a willingness to be guided by the Supreme Wisdom of the Universe.
-Joanna de Angelis
We put our whole house in order,
for each little action,
moment after moment,
based in care and kindness,
which becomes a solid foundation.
For our happiness, then,
we discover that happiness actually can
come under our control.
-Guy Armstrong
Try to talk more with God and to God and less with men and to men.
From the silence of our hearts,
we can preach the peace of Christ as he did,
by going about doing good to others.
- Mother Teresa
Ain't ever been a single person who can keep his mouth shut when it comes to other people.
But try not to gossip, even when it makes you look smarter.
-Cowboy Hãvamãl
When you fast, be cheerful.
Wash your face and comb your hair.
- Jesus
Ask and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find;
knock and it shall be opened unto you:
or what man is there of you, whom, if his son asks for bread, he will give him a stone?
- Matthew VII
You can see everything with the eyes of love.
You can be aware that there is love all around you.
When you live in this way, there is no longer a fog in your mind.
- Miguel Ruiz
By entering into our humanity,
Christ gave human life great dignity,
and made all human tasks and human experience worthy,
even holy.
- Stanley Spencer
It is devotion that is all-important on the spiritual guest.
-Bhagavad Gita
No matter what happened to us in the past, right now, we can take responsibility for working compassionately within our habits, our thoughts and emotions. We can take the emphasis off who has hurt us and put it on disentangling ourselves.
-Pema Chödrön
Impermanence: in reality, every moment is birth and every moment is death.
We should understand that we can't hang on to anything as permanent security.
As Buddha saw it, this attitude is not particularly disheartening, it is just a fact of life.
-Chögyam Trungpa
Mother I never knew,
every time I see the ocean,
every time-
Kobayashi Issa
Don't grieve for what doesn't come.
Some things that don't happen
keep disasters from happening.
-Rumi
When will we learn not to search for ourselves and other people,
when the only place we can truly is within.
-Emina Gaspar-Vrana