— Aldous Huxley

"It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days... Lightly, lightly - it's the best advice ever given me... So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling..."

— Vincent van Gogh

"I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

— Nikola Tesla

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

— Monica Drake

Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that's not the one. When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

— Carl Sagan

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. 
There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. 
Man is a transitional animal. He is not the 
climax of creation.

— Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

— Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.