"I said to my soul, be still..."

 

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” ~T.S. Eliot

Our only true belongings

“My actions are my only true belongings.”

― Thích Nhất Hạnh,

Do the right thing anyway.

Photo by Ángela Burón. Click to see original on Flickr

 I like this quote because it makes the right thing to do very clear. Don't let your actions be clouded by your feelings. Do the right thing anyway.  

"Take the hard feelings away, and this is the right thing to do. Put the feelings back and it hurts like hell, but the right thing to do hasn’t changed." Carolyn Hax

You cannot truly see unless you take in the world without assumptions

Photo by Andrew (click to see original on Flickr).

"My son once came up to me on a playground and said, "The little black girl just threw something at me!" I looked over at the only African American girl on the playground, who was wearing a green T-shirt, and my son said indignantly, "Not the GREEN girl, the BLACK girl!" pointing at a small blonde child in a black shirt." Sometimes, their assumptions are not ours..." -Catken1
(from comments on this Carolyn Hax column in the Washington Post)

True generosity.

"That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing." — Simone de Beauvoir