“The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart.  We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.”  William Hazlitt

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches.  If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers.  To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power to not do.”  Aristotle

“It is indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine.”  George Santayana

“A man consists of the faith that is in him.  Whatever his faith, he is.”   Bhagavaad Gita

“It usually happens that the more faithfully a person follows the inspirations he receives, the more does he experience new inspirations which ask increasingly more of him.”  Joseph De Guibert

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”  Samuel Johnson

“Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes the void.”  Simone Weil

“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”  Epictetus

“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.”  Kathleen Theisen