Truth
“Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind,
Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute,
Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and
wise, Tell me I’m perfect –
But tell me the truth.”
—Shel Silverstein

Possibility
You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’
But I dream things that never were;
and I say, “Why not?”
—George Bernard Shaw

Light
“If water derives lucidity from
stillness, how much more the
faculties of the mind! The mind of the
sage, being in repose, becomes the
mirror of the universe, the speculum
of all creation.”
—Chuang Tzu

Compassion
“Our task must be to free ourselves by
widening our circle of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the
whole of nature and its beauty.”
— Albert Einstein

Transcendance
“When I turn my mind’s eye upon
myself, I understand that I am a thing
which is incomplete and dependent
on another and which aspires
without limit to ever greater and
better things…”
—René Descartes

Holism
“The most fundamental phenomenon in the universe is relationship.”
—Jonas Salk

Health
Health is the soul that animates all
the enjoyments of life, which fade
and are tasteless without it.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Alleviate Suffering
“In every sorrowing soul I pour’d
delight, And poverty stood smiling in
my sight.”
—Homer