SOUL AFLAME!

[knightofalbion]

This thread is for inspirational quotations, poems and short stories. If there is something that has touched your soul, led you to a higher path or given you strength in a time of adversity, then please add it here.
If it has inspired you, the chances are it will inspire others too and to help each other along is the duty of every soul.
Into the light!

All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

• Gautama Buddha

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everybody else.

• Margaret Mead

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up

• John Holmes

Believe with all your heart that how you live your life makes a difference

• Colin Beavan

(Because it does ...)

Never, never hate.
I don't hate the Germans, they are wonderful people, no worse than others.
Evil has always existed and always will, it is part of our life.
I never hate. I will never hate. Hatred brings only hatred.

• Alice Herz-Sommer (Holocaust survivor)

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones

• Philips Brooks

And if thy heart be straight with God, then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine, for there is no creature so little or so vile, but that sheweth and representeth the goodness of God

• Thomas a Kempis

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful

• A.R. Ammons

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper ...

• Eden Phillpotts

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure

• Alfred Lord Tennyson

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in

• Morrie Schwartz

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

• Edmund Burke

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things, this is the nature of righteousness

• Confucius

Listen, my friend. He who loves understands.

• Kabir

God is in thy heart, yet thou searchest for Him in the wilderness

• Arjun

We all need each other

• Leo Buscaglia

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness

• Seneca

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path

• Gautama Buddha

What is the best religion?

The best religion is the one that gets you closest to God.
It is the one that makes you a better person

• The Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to discover your gift.
The meaning of life is to give it away.

• David Viscott

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed

• Woodrow Wilson

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love

• St Basil

I beg you, take courage. The brave soul can mend even disaster

• Catherine the Great

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence

• Jim Watkins

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders

• Jewish proverb