As you pause and take a deep breath, enjoy these wise words from philosophers, writers, poets, and others.

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
-Buddha

When you notice your ego creating drama, ask yourself: what am I avoiding in this moment?
-Parvati

No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment — Now.
-Eckhart Tolle

Suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering.
-Buddha

Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s trouble. It takes away today’s peace.
(Above quote is attributed to Randy Armstrong, but is very similar to Corrie Ten Boom quote: Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

And into the forest I go. To lose my mind and find my soul.
-John Muir

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.
-Maya Angelou

Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
(Above quote was featured at the end of the movie JoJo Rabbit.)

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.
-John Muir

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea,
And music in its roar,
I love not man the less,
But nature more.
-Lord Byron

I know nothing with any certainty
But the sight of the stars
Makes me dream.
-Vincent Van Gogh

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

The earth has music for those who listen.
-Shakespeare

I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

See also: Learnings from Teachings of Eckhart Tolle and Others

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