Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.

St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Embrace the World

I was born from the nectar of immortality as the primordial horse and as Indra's noble elephant. Among men, I am the king. Among weapons I am the thunderbolt. I am Kamadhuk, the cow that fulfills all desires; I am Kandarpa, the power of sex, and Vasuki, the king of snakes.
- Bhagavad Gita 10:27-28

Do not underestimate your ability.
- Geshe Chekawa, "In Advice From a Spiritual Friend"

“The only difference between stumbling blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them.”

- Unknown (submitted by Bambi 870)

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
- Phil Jackson

Dear Friends,
“One word,” wrote Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan, “can be more precious than all the treasures on earth.” Amidst dire rumblings near and far, what could be more needed than a word of guidance? And what richer place to find such a word than in one of our quote collections? This month, we celebrate the more than 500 quotes in our German “Wort für den Tag” (“Word for the Day”) feature with a new subscription service:

www.gratefulness.org/word/subscribe_de.cfm

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

- Phil Collins -

In time of care and sorrow, keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

- Dietrich Bonhoffer -

Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.

- Sr. Mary Rose McGeady

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service,
and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their
personal happiness.

-Leo Tolstoy

To get the full value of a joy you must have
somebody to divide it with.

- Mark Twain

Let a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands and take it when
it runs by.

- Carl Sandburg

leaf fluttered in through the window this morning,
as if supported by the rays of the sun,
a bird settled on the fire escape,
joy in the task of coffee,
joy accompanied me as I walked.

- Anais Nin

Joy is not in things;
it is in us.

- Richard Wagner

Joy is the serenity of heaven.

- John Donne

We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

- Joseph Campbell

My mind to me a kingdom is,
such present joys therein I find,
That it excels all other bliss
- Sir Edward Dyer
1543 – 1607

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

- Rumi, 1207-1273

In time of care and sorrow, keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

- Dietrich Bonhoffer

And Joy is Everywhere;
It is in the Earth’s green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of the Sky;
In the reckless exuberance of Spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray Winter;
In the Living flesh that animates our bodily frame;
In the perfect poise of the Human figure, noble and upright;
In Living;
In the exercise of all our powers;
In the acquisition of Knowledge;
in fighting evils…
Joy is there Everywhere.

- Rabindranath Tagore, 1861-1941
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913

By saying grace, we release the Divine sparks in our food.

Rabbi Herschel

“To a friends house, the road is never long.”

- Danish proverb

This robe of freedom from cold isn't matched by ordinary clothes. This concentration free of hunger is unequaled by ordinary meat and beer. This draught at the stream of enlightenment isn't matched by ordinary drink. This satisfaction born within isn't equaled by ordinary treasure.

- Milarepa, "Drinking the Mountain Stream"

Is not the soul a guest in our body, deserving of our kind hospitality? Today it is here, tomorrow it is gone.

- Rabbi Hillel, Leviticus Rabbah

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

- Kahlil Gibran –