If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Carl Jung 

May I be a guard for those who need protection
A guide for those on the path
A boat, a raft, a bridge for those who wish to cross the flood
May I be a lamp in the darkness
A resting place for the weary
A healing medicine for all who are sick
A vase of plenty, a tree of miracles
And for the boundless multitudes of living beings
May I bring sustenance and awakening
Enduring like the earth and sky
Until all beings are freed from sorrow
And all are awakened.

 Shantideva, Indian Buddhist sage 700 A.D.

Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Marc Chernoff

“The acquisition of knowledge doesn’t mean you’re growing; growing happens when what you know changes how you live.”

Marc Chernoff

Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.Katherine Henson

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.Beth Ditto

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection.

Henri Nouwen

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.”

People think of education as something they can finish.....

Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.

— Lord Thomas Dewar

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

— Dalai Lama 

True love is only interested in the soul, not its outer packaging.

— Sam and Mr Kipling

Happiness is when you feel good about yourself without feeling the need for anyone else’s approval.

— Quotes and Thoughts

Unless others have lived in your shoes, experienced your life, they judgement has no truth.

— Mr Kips and I 

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

— Anne Frank

I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.

The world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

Things that shouldn’t offend you: profanity, the opinions of others, Jesus followers who smoke and drink. Things that should offend you: poverty, drone strikes, famine, daughters being bought and sold

We all suffer until we realize we don’t have to.

— Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably deal with.” 
~Tony Robbins

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Only the people you trust can fuck you....

Between what is said and not meant

And what is meant and not saidMost of love is lost.....