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“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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“The universe is wider than our views of it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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“…but what I like doing best is Nothing.”

“How do you do Nothing?” asked Pooh, after he had wondered for a long time. […]

“It means just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”

— A.A. Milne

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“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”

— Khalil Gibran

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“Peace is a quiet thing. If you seek it, its song gets lost in the clamour of being sought.”

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“If you hear a voice within you saying, ‘You are not a painter,’ then by all means paint … and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”

— Walt Whitman

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“If you ever feel like you are drowning in worries, stay with your breath. Follow it all the way in and all the way out. It will hold you safely in the present moment, above the tide of your fears.”

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“The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music. The trees and the stars and the blue hills appear to us as symbols aching with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

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“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

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“There is as much attachment in wanting to be rid of something as there is in holding on to it. It is our attachment that seeds our suffering. Peace lies between embracing what we would push away and letting go of what we would cling to.”

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“Adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“In oneself lies the whole world, and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either that key or the door to open, except yourself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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“Acceptance is peace. It washes away the tension of what we think should be and wraps us in the ease of what is.”

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“The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don’t wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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“Cultivate kindness wherever you meet doubts and fears.”

— Quiet Lotus