You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in The 'Bad Weather' Friend)

They carry us through the world, but how often do we really listen to our bodies? A whole universe of wonder awaits when we do. --Jon Kabat-Zinn (in The Inner Sense Driving Your Thoughts)

The whole universe is vibration. So when we make vibrations, we are communicating with the whole universe. --Madhu Anziani (in Madhu Anziani: Healing Power of Sound)

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. --Ambrose Bierce (in How to Avoid Reaching a Boiling Point)

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. --Lao Tzu (in Unveiling Gifts from Uncertainty)

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colors; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow. --Khalil Gibran (in But We Had Music)

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. --Zen Shin (in Dancing with the Enemy)

It is better to strive in one’s own genuine truth than to succeed in the truth of another. Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own genuine truth. --Bhagavad Gita (in Be-The-Change Corporations)

Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done. --Paul Hawken (in Knowing Our Power in Tumultuous Times)

We do not remember days, we remember moments. --Cesare Pavese (in Inner Worlds)

Remember that we can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. --Dalai Lama (in Friend or FOMO?)

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. --Henry David Thoreau (in How to Reboot After Disappointment at Work)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Teresa (in How Sisterly Love Transformed a Brothel in Delhi)

In my opinion all important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being. --Max Beckman, 1938 (in John Toki: Earning It)

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. --Virginia Woolf (in When Melodies Unlock Memory Reservoirs)

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. --Carl Jung (in Transforming Stress into Self-Identity)

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. --John Bunyan (in Selfless Athlete Surrenders Spotlight)

The only thing you have any control over is the present moment. --Tobe Hanson (in Feeling Anxious? A Good Deed Could Snap You Out Of It)

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. --Anaïs Nin (in Defining World Happiness)

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi (in Rethinking Identity, Embracing Destiny)

It's just as important for you to hear yourself speak your stories as it is for others to hear you speak them. --Tommy Orange (in Author Drops Everything To Visit Bronx Students)

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure. --Aisha Tyler (in Never Too Late: Becoming a World Champion at 40)

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. --Helen Keller (in Hug Therapy Revolution in Argentina)

Emotions are [neither] good or bad, and really a movement towards compassion, curiosity, and acceptance. --Susan David (in What Emotions Can Teach Us)

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. --Albert Schweitzer (in In a Bomb Shelter Under Kyiv, a Professor Taught Peace)

For it is in giving that we receive. --St. Francis of Assisi (in 93-Year-Old Grandmother's Secret to a Meaningful Life)

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. --Coretta Scott King (in Why this Retired Professor Gives Driving Lessons for Free)

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. --W.P. Kinsella (in Daily Phrases from the World's Happiest Nation)

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. --Tobias Wolff (in On Persistence: Conversation with Jerry Barrish)

One of the things that really amazed me is how the love of this craft, a way of expressing something of oneself, eclipsed the fear. --Dennis Ludlow (in 'Doctor, Doctor, I Declare': Dennis Ludlow in Conversation)

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute. --Mitch Albom (in Significance of the Seemingly Ordinary)

Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. --Amy Leigh Mercree (in Dishes in the Sink)

Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. --Jodi Picoult (in Why Boston's Wealthy Back Bay Said Yes, In Our Backyard)

In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. --John Green (in 4 Habits of Effective Communicators)

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. --Orrin Woodward (in From Accessing Your Ignorance to Accessing Your Love)

Emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies. --Adrienne Maree Brown (in Connecticut Plans to Cancel Medical Debt for Many Residents)

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. --Henry David Thoreau (in Lost? Here's 4 Steps to Finding Your Path)

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash. --Bill Nye (in These Nepali Women Give Mt. Everest Garbage New Life)

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace. --Gandhi (in With a Soft Breath: How My Daughter Rides Horses)

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make. --Jane Goodall (in Something Old Is Something New)

The only riches that last are the ones that are given away. --David Khalil (in He Left Company Ownership to its 700 Employees)

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart ... live the questions now. --Rainer Maria Rilke (in Why Uncertainty Can Lead to Childlike Wonder)

One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone. --Shannon L. Adler (in Small Town Hotel Becomes Safe Haven in an Expensive World)

Prevention is better than cure. --Desiderius Erasmus (in Zero Problem Philanthropy)

We are in relationship -- everything around us is a mirror of ourselves, our internal selves. --Kalyanee Mam (in Seeds of Reciprocity)

When you start to step out of the human-flavored reality and explore these other spectrums, you realize that everything is kind of existing in relationship to everything else in its own sensory kind of dialogue. --Barney Steel (in Mycelial Landscapes)

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. --Maya Angelou (in Why 1,200 Widows Will Be Surprised With Flowers Today)

It's not what you do, but who you become by what you do. --Anonymous (in The New Old Age)

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. --Jimmy Dean (in The Decision to Change)

Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. --Mandy Hale (in Tsultrim Allione: Turning Towards What’s Difficult)