Oasis

Thoughts to Nurture Your Soul

A fulfilling life is not preoccupied with material objects, prestige and power. It is filled with true friendships, sharing, and caring for each other.
- Jing Si Aphorisms by Venerable Master Cheng Yen

"I cannot forgive myself." You say.
"I forgive thee." God says. (1 John 1:9, Romans 8:1)
"I am afraid." You say.
"I hath not given you the spirit of fear." God says. (2 Timothy 1:7)

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990), American Publisher

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Norman MacFinan

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British Politician

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968), American Disability Rights Activist

"A beautiful heart sees beauty in everything."
- Tzu Chi Online Newsletter

"I am tired." You say.
"I will give you rest." God says. (Matthew 11:28)
"I am often worried and depressed." You say.
"Cast all your care upon me." (1 Peter 5:7)

"The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed, and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things."
- William James (1842-1910), American philosopher and psychologist

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
- Tyron Edwards

He who smiles rather than rages is the stronger.
- Japanese wisdom

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
- Edward Everell Hale

The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
- Sir James M Barrie 1860-1937

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
- Buddha

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
- Buddha

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain

Joy is not in things; it is in us.
- Richard Wagner 1813 - 1883

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain

The heart is like a garden.
It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love.
What seeds will you plant there?
- Buddha

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Should you shield the Canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Trust in your hopes - never trust in your hurts.
- Robert H. Schuller

Turn your scars into stars!
- Robert H. Schuller

"I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:14)

What is to give light must endure burning.
- Viktor Frankl

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
- Og Mandino

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- Aristotle

Each setback or adverse mutation is a seed with the same or greater.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James

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Thoughts to Nurture Your Soul