What the world's wisdom keeps saying.

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast."

"We made you into peoples and tribes that you may know one another."

"As a mother would risk her life to protect her only child, so with a boundless heart cherish all living beings."

"To love is to pay another the compliment of your full attention."

"All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals."

"Love is the doctrine of this church."

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

"My God, if God loves me, then God has to love other gay people too."

"There is suffering. To see it clearly is the beginning of freedom."

"The Lord is near to the brokenhearted."

"The wound is the place where the light enters you."

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

"It is not things that disturb us, but our judgments about things."

"Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly."

"Stand out firmly for justice, even if it be against yourselves."

"Perform your duty without attachment, for the good of the world."

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

"Justice, equity and compassion in human relations."

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."

"Whatever You do, we accept with thanks."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

"Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

"Give freely what you have freely received."

"Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that — it lights the whole sky."

"Lord, I believe; help my unbelief."

"Great doubt, great awakening. Little doubt, little awakening. No doubt, no awakening."

"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion."

"A free and responsible search for truth and meaning."

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence."

"The superior person seeks what is right; the small person seeks what is profitable."

"The sage does not accumulate. The more he does for others, the more he has."

"Whoever saves a single life is considered to have saved the whole world."

"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

"Cattle die, kinsmen die, you yourself will die; but a good name never dies for the one who earns it well."

"The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions."

"Health is the greatest of gains; contentment is the greatest of riches."

"Two blessings many people squander: health and free time."

"Keeping the body healthy and whole is itself a way of serving God, for it is impossible to understand or to act while unwell."

"In beauty may I walk. In beauty may it be finished."

"Your body is not a problem to be solved; it is the home you tend so you can tend others."

"Nothing in excess."

"The world is green and beautiful, and God has appointed you stewards over it."

"The Divine placed the human in the garden to work it and to keep it."

"In every deliberation, consider the impact of your decisions on the next seven generations."

"It is the little things citizens do that will make the difference. My little thing is to plant trees."

"The world is a sacred vessel. Whoever grabs hold of it will spoil it; whoever grasps at it will lose it."

"When the earth is body of Goddess, the female body and the earth, which have been devalued and dominated together, are resacralized."

"It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you free to abandon it."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

"Without struggle there is no progress."

"May your life preach more loudly than your lips."

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."

"A young person's duty is to be filial at home and respectful abroad; that is the root from which goodness grows."

"A parent is the best of the gates to paradise."

"He waka eke noa — we are all in the same canoe, with no one left behind."

"Family is wider than blood: anyone who faithfully shows up for you is kin."

"Every stranger and beggar comes from Zeus."

"Blessed be the givers! A guest has come in — where is he going to sit?"

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."

"A friend is another self."

"Two are better than one, for if one falls the other will lift up the companion."

"Do not judge your friend until you have stood in their place."

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

"Live and let live; fairly take and fairly give."

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there."

"They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation."

"All beings are fond of life and delight in pleasure; therefore, do no harm to any living being."

"Shall I not tell you of something better than fasting and charity? To make peace between people."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"An it harm none, do what ye will."

"Paz, amor e caridade — peace, love, and charity."

"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon."

"No one steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same river and they are not the same person."

"As a person casts off worn-out garments and puts on new ones, so the embodied self casts off worn-out bodies."

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

"Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will."