Enlightenment Quotes

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
- James Allen

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.
- Anthony de Mello

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?"
"Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master.
"Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?"
"Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."
- Anthony de Mello

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Lao-Tze

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- André Gide

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
- Aryeh Frimer

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan

When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it hitched to the rest of the Universe."
- John Muir

"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own."
- Chinese proverb

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the World.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t fee unsure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
As we let our Light shine; we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear; our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson