I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and to read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
Watch your thoughts;
they become your words.
Watch your words;
they become your actions
.
Watch your actions;
they become your habits.
Watch your habits;
they become your character.
Watch your character
for it will become your destiny."
Gandhi
Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us "universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
CSM LWTO - (Come See Me, Let's Work This Out)
Compassion Quotes:
Frederick Buechner:
Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
George Washington Carver:
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
HH the Dalai Lama:
Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
Mairead Maguire:
We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.
HH the Dalai Lama:
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
What a world of difference one CSM LWTO person... can make!
Simplify your life
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak
Hans Hofmann
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life,
and the labors of life reduce themselves.
Edwin Way Teale
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.
Clement Mok
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard
Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify.
Henry Thoreau
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katherine F. Gerould
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying.
The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
Elise Boulding
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.
The height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery;
the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment.
And this law is the expression of eternal justice.
He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
Leonardo da Vinci
What is needed is a realization that power without love
is reckless and abusive,
and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice,
and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968)
Source: Where Do We Go From Here? (1967) - Address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
{Love Potion by Evelyn de Morgan circa 1903}
“There is but one genuine love-potion - consideration.” ~Menander of Athens
“Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and freedom”
Wisdom for the Journey
When you love another for who they are,
"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities." ~ James Allen, from As a Man Thinketh
“In the instant of our first breath, we are infused with the single greatest force in the universe – the power to translate the possibilities of our minds into the reality of our world. To fully awaken our power, however, requires a subtle change in the way we think of ourselves in life, a shift in belief.”
Mevlana Rumi 
"In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy" Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Laureate in Medicine