☯ Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does. (Sukhraj Dhillon)

☯ Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. (Arthur C. Clarke)

☯ Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. (Joseph Campbell)

☯ Dance like nobody's watching. Love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening. Live like it's heaven on earth. (Susanna Clark / Richard Leigh)

☯ Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein)

☯ If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it. (Mark Boyle, Freeconomy Community)

☯ Be the change you want to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi)

☯ The degrees of separation between the consumer and the consumed have increased so much that we're completely unaware of the levels of destruction and suffering embodied in the stuff we buy.  (Mark Boyle, Freeconomy Community)

☯ Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little. (Cheng Yen)

☯ Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.  (Thich Nhat Hahn)

☯ ‘What day is it?’- asked Pooh. ‘It’s today’, squeaked Piglet. ‘My favourite day’ – said Pooh. (A.A. Milne)

☯ If I were rain, I would go where water cannot be found. (Rani from India, 12 years old)

☯ Forgive them, Father. They know not what they do. (Jesus Christ)

☯ I asked for Strength……… And God gave me Difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for Wisdom……… And God gave me Problems to solve.

I asked for Prosperity……… And God gave me Brain and Brawn to work.

I asked for Courage……… And God gave me Danger to overcome.

I asked for Love……… And God gave me Troubled people to help.

I asked for Favours……… And God gave me Opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed

My Prayer has been answered.

(Islamic poetry)

☯ See those rocks sitting up there? Been standing there for six hundred years. Still be there when you and I are gone. So arguing over who owns’em is like a couple of fleas arguing over who owns the dog they’re living on. (From the “Crocodile Dundee” movie)