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I may only pass through this life once,
Therefore if there is any kindness I can give you,
let me do so now,
for I may not pass this way again
~Gail Sayers
A gift from Revathi

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There is a beginning and an end in every step I take.
There is a continuous movement in all my steps. The beginnings and endings are a part of the larger beginning and end.
I have just started
I am sure one day I will reach

~From the book Inner Realities by J M Sampath
A gift from Sandhya

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Light emanates
From a grey deep well of words,
the journey beckons

Gratitude
Love and Light, Ramya

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You can choose to leave a trail of gladness. You need not be a great man or woman to leave your footprints on the sands of time, for every time you help someone feel valuable and special, every time you fluff someone's aura, you leave an indelible mark. Such good is seldom forgotten or lost. It becomes part of the other person, part one's soul

~from the book Life is an Attitude, How to Grow Forever Better by Dottie Billington

A gift from Revathi

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"A simple five word question can soften a heart, and change a life. : What are you going through?....
Patience is a virtue. It is also good for you. Patient people are happier and healthier than important ones, studies find. They are more likely to act rationally. They have better coping skills..."

~From the book, The Socrates Express
A gift from Kavita

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Lives of great men all remind us , we can make our lives sublime, and departing leave behind us,
footprints on the sands of time
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A gift from Revathi

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Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be short-sighted so as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.
- 40 Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

A gift from Mansee

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.....Khishakade haath jaatach (When my hand went for the pocket)
Hasath hasath uthla (He stood up with a laugh),
Paishe nakoth Sir, jara ektepana vaatla, (I am not here for money, Sir, I just felt a little lonely)

Modun padla sansar, tari modla naahi kana
(My life is shattered to pieces, but my spine still stands tall)
Paativarthi haath tevun fakta mhana, fakta ladh
(Place your hand on my back,
And just say, ‘Fight.’.....)

A poem by Kusumagraj,
A gift from Rajani

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"...The pure land does not exist in some otherworldly realm, but in the real world, it is achieved by changing inside...."
~From the book On Attaining Buddhahood in this Lifetime

A gift from Devina

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"Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you? Open your eyes and come. Return to the root of the root of your own soul"
~Rumi
A gift from Sandhya

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"Joy has to be shared by sharing it you are unburdened, by sharing it new sources open up within you. New streams, new streams. That sharing of your joy is love"

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"Joy has to be shared by sharing it you are unburdened, by sharing it new sources open up within you. New streams, new streams. That sharing of your joy is love"

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~From the book Joy, the happiness that comes from within
A gift from Anuradha

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"Then said a rich man, Speak to us of Giving.
And he answered:
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give...."

~From the Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
A gift from Smita

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"Fortitude. A woman's strength is measured by her capacity to bear suffering. But is it a sign of courage? They are not one and the same, are they? It would be many years before I learned the difference. It would another woman, much younger than I, who would teach me that"

~From the book Kuntibhoja
A gift from Debjani

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"...Often the hardest person to forgive is yourself.
Being kind to yourself is one of the greatest kindnesses", said the mole

"Often the hardest person to forgive is yourself"

~From the book The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Charlie Mackesy.
gifts from Ramya S and Mary

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".. How miserable we make ourselves by thinking, we our point of view, our perspective is the truth, the only reality, the only story that there is...."

~Rumi Tales to Live by Kamla Kapur

A gift from Sree

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"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake."
~Rabindranath Tagore
A gift from Priyanka

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"When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you'll find something solid to stand on Or you'll be taught how to fly!"
~Richard Bach
A gift from Neeta

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"The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the power of their subconscious mind. You can do the same. The law of life is the law of belief"

From The Power of the Subconscious Mind, by Dr Joseph Murphy
A gift from Simran

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When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

~Wendell Berry
a gift from Poonam