Vocation: the place where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need - Frederick Buechner

“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart”

Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it”

Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself

Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

Resentment is like taking poison and hoping that the other person dies.

- Malachy McCourt
Writer, actor, politician and brother of author, Frank McCourt

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

- Aung San Suu Kyi,
Nobel laureate and leader of the nonviolent movement for human rights and democracy in Burma 

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.


from Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
from Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

from Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

Ivan Panin (Russian mathematician1855-1942)

from www.thinkexist.com

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage (composer, 1912 - 1992)

from www.quotationspage.com