What we are speaks louder than what we say. Ralph Emerson
That which is perishable can give only perishable happiness. Swāmi Rāmdās
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Jesus
To be intelligent today means to understand everything and believe in nothing. Paul Evdokimov
No one denies God unless it is to his advantage that He be non-existent. Saint Augustine
Act for this world as if you were to remain in it for a thousand years, and for the hereafter as if you were to die tomorrow. Muhammad
Why be concerned so much for our future and so little for our eternity? Jean-Yves Leloup
The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is distraction, and yet it is the greatest of our miseries. Blaise Pascal
When the ego grieves for what it has lost, the spirit rejoices in what it has found. Sufi aphorism.
Truth is the raison d’être for man’s existence; it constitutes our grandeur and reveals to us our smallness. Frithjof Schuon