Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
Barbara De Angelis (American relationship consultant, lecturer, author and TV personality)
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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
Dr. Joyce Brothers (American psychologist and advice columnist)
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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie (Polish-French physicist—chemist)
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark (British explorer and travel writer)
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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil (French philosopher, Christian mystic and social activist)
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Magic rites, primitive civilizations, alchemy, the language of flowers, fire or sleepless nights, are so many stages on the way to unity and the philosophers’ stone.
Albert Camus (French author, journalist and key philosopher)
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer (German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity)
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The Masters of nature have written much that the art was not to be perfected constantly, on purpose, that the unwise might reach to it, but to the just and to the godly it becomes profitable both here and hereafter.
Arnaldus de Villa Nova (alchemist, astrologer and physician)
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered. It is something molded.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French writer and aviator)
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemmingway (American journalist and the fourth wife of Ernest Hemmingway)
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No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may, we ourselves must walk the Path, teachers merely show the way.
Nancy Wilson Ross (American author who published many papers on Zen Buddhism)
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Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother Theresa (Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and Indian citizenship)
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In the Constitution of the (Theosophical) Society there is no mention of the word ‘Theosophy’; and there is no official definition of what is Theosophy. So every member can say what Theosophy is or is not. It is very important that we realize that the work of the Society is to establish Universal Brotherhood, not to proclaim what is Theosophy.
Radha Burnier (International President of the Theosophical Society Adyar)
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If it fails, if the Theosophical Movement fails, we shall be responsible – you and I. The Theosophical Society is humanity’s hope, and this is no grandiloquent phrase, no vain boast. It is holy truth.
Gottfried de Purucker (Author, Theosophist and at one time leader of the Theosophical Society-Point Loma)
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To have Brotherhood among the many, it is first necessary to realize Brotherhood among the few, and the basis of Brotherhood is the divinity in all men.
Robert Crosbie (Author, Theosophist and founder of the United Lodge of Theosophists)
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The building of character is an ongoing challenge: the transmutation of selfishness into altruism, of personal interest into the warmth of compassion — a slow, patient alchemy.
Grace F. Knoche (Author, Theosophist and from 1971until 2006 leader of The Theosophical Society-Pasadena)
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Authority engenders power, and power always becomes centralized and therefore utterly corrupting.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual issues)
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The infinite variety of particular objects constitutes one sole and identical Being. To know that unity is the aim of all philosophy and of all knowledge of Nature.
Giordano Bruno (Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer)
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If anyone asks what is the shortest and surest way of disposing ourselves to advance continually in the spiritual life, I shall reply that it is to remain carefully self-gathered within, for it is there properly that one sees the gleam of the true light.
Johannes Tauler (German mystic theologian)
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison (American lead singer and lyricist of the American band The Doors)
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You don’t get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you are going to live.
Joan Baez (American folk singer, songwriter and activist)
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Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen (Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer)
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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Indira Gandhi (Indian politician, leader of the Indian National Congress and the third Prime Minister of the Republic of India)
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank (One of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust)
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Everybody likes to go their own way – to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Jane Austen (English novelist)
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We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Michelle Obama (Current First Lady of the United States)
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of the United States from 1933 – 1945)
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To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (Founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey)
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A man’s very act begins with a dream and ends with one.
Theodor Herzl
(Austro-Hungarian journalist and the father of modern political Zionism)
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx (American comedian and film star)
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Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews (British film and stage actress, singer and author)
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I believe that two people are connected at heart, and it doesn’t matter what you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together.
Julia Roberts (American actress)
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Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash (American businesswoman)
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jong (American author and teacher)
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Different places on the face of the earth have different vital effluence, different vibration, different chemical exhalation, different polarity with different start, call it what you like. But the spirit of place is a great reality.
D. H. Lawrence (English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic)
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I give nothing as duties.
What others give as duties, I give as living impulses.
Raymond Merrill Smullyan (American mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist philosopher and magician)
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell, writing to the synod of the Church of Scotland on August 5, 1650. The Scottish kirk held firm views about its tenets. [The word tenet is from the Latin verb tenere, meaning “he holds.” Tenets are best held lightly, rather than firmly.
Oliver Cromwell (English, military and political leader)
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The root-word buddh means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is called a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature. When Buddhists say "I take refuge in the Buddha," they are expressing trust in their own capacity of understanding, of becoming awake. The Chinese and Vietnamese say, "I go back and rely on the Buddha in me." Adding "in me" makes it clear that you yourself are the Buddha.
Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet, and peace activist)
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There is, there can be, only a single universal and external truth. Because the Real exists always and can never vanish, the True exists always and can never vanish. No prophet ever reveals it for the first time, no seer discovers it. All only rediscover it. It never changes or evolves; only its form and presentation does that. But before it can manifest in our world, it must find human minds sufficiently prepared to be able to receive it and sufficiently developed to be able to comprehend and teach it.
Paul Brunton (British philosopher, mystic, traveler, and author)
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Myths are not only mirrors, but corridors of mirrors. When we enter them, they become systems of thought branching towards the outer world and tunnels of enlightenment rooting towards the unconscious soul. We have constructed them to lead us back and forth from dream and vigil and from sensation to experience; and if we willfully abandon them, we will be left, in the full meaning of the word, senseless.
Alberto Manguel (Canadian writer, translator, and editor)
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In a sense, the history of man is the story of the struggle between good and evil. All the great religions have recognized a tension at the very core of the universe. Hinduism, for instance, calls this tension a conflict between illusion and reality; Zoroastrianism, a conflict between the god of light and the god of darkness; and traditional Judaism and Christianity, a conflict between God and Satan. Each realizes that in the midst of the upward thrust of goodness there is the downward pull of evil.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement)
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In moments of weakness and distress, it is good to tread closely in God’s footsteps.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russian novelist, dramatist, and historian)
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The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear any more—except his God.
Viktor E. Frankl (Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor)
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The person who believes in God, then, sees in the fact that right must prevail an experience of what is above humanity, an experience of transcendence, in other words, he experiences the absolute and saving presence of God in that confusion of meaning and nonsense that we call “human existence.”.
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Edward Schillebeeckx (Belgian Roman Catholic theologian)
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Truth comes in full circle
As departing light
From infinite space
Returns to the heart
Still what it was,
Embracing all.
Kathleen Raine (British critic, poet, and independent scholar)
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[R]eality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.
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Fred Alan Wolf (theoretical physicist who writes on quantum physics and consciousness)
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The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.
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Swami Muktananda (Hindu guru)
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I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Martha Graham (American dancer and choreographer)
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Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French philosopher and Jesuit priest)
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Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.
Paul Tillich (German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher)
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Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood — and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.
Aldous Huxley (English writer and one of the prominent members of the famous Huxley family)
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An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul, who sees in each personality the soul incarnate upon the Earth. It is the harmlessness of one who treasures and honors and reveres life in all its forms.
Gary Zukov (Former Green Beret officer during the Vietnam War, bestselling author and Harvard graduate)
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It is not sufficient to place yourself daily under God. What really matters is to be only under God: the slightest division of allegiance opens the door to day-dreaming, petty conversation, petty boasting, petty malice – all the petty satellites of the death-instinct.
"But how, then, am I to love God? You must love Him as if He were a Non-God, a Non-Spirit, a Non-Person, a Non-Substance: love Him simply as the One, the Pure and absolute Unity in which is no trace of Duality. And into this One, we must let ourselves fall continually from being into non-being. God helps us to do this."
Dag Hammarskjold (Swedish diplomat, economist, mystic, author and second General Secretary of the United Nations)
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Zen, as Suzuki exemplified it, was spontaneously intelligent living, without calculation, and without rigid conceptual distinctions between self and other, knower and known. He used the force of gravity as a sailor uses the wind.
Alan Watts (British philosopher, writer and speaker)
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The T.S. can demonstrate to the world that a deep sense of brotherhood, a realization of spiritual kinship with each other, is a reality, in a group of ten or a group of two hundred—it does not matter what the size is.
Radha Burnier (International President of the Theosophical Society – Adyar)
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Death is going home, yet people are afraid of what will come so they do not want to die. If we do, if there is no mystery, we will not be afraid. There is also the question of conscience—'I could have done better.' Very often as we live, so we die. Death is nothing but a continuation of life, the completion of life. The surrendering of the human body. But the heart and the soul live for ever. They do not die. Every religion has got eternity—another life; this life is not the end, people who believe it is, fear death. If it was properly explained that death was nothing but going home to God, then there would be no fear.
When you live everyday with "what is" and observe "what is," not only out there but inwardly, then you will create a society that will be without conflict.
For many who have experienced it, this vision of a changeless reality has been so powerful and so self-evidently true that they have concluded the changing world of everyday experience is somehow less real. The impermanence of things in this world is an appearance or reflection or illusion. Underlying everything is the true reality which neither comes into being nor passes away.
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
There is a type of faith quite essential in daily living. It is the courage and tenacity to proceed with the work in hand despite the discouraging wisdom of both the bystanders and our own critical mind. 
go directly to the point, hitting the nail right on the head. Having a bearing on our Theosophical circles nowadays, here is one of them: “If the teacher cannot live up to what the teacher teaches, he or she should no longer teach, but return to being a humble student again” . . . I can only say: Amen!
In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
Our Society stands upon an altogether unsectarian basis; we sympathize with every religion, but not with every abuse that exists under the guise of religion; and while sympathizing with every religion and making the best efforts we can for the purpose of recovering the common foundations that underlie all religious beliefs, it ought to be the duty of every one of us to try to enlighten our own countrymen on the philosophy of religion, and endeavour to lead them back to a purer faith - a faith which, no doubt, did exist in former times, but which now lives but in name or in the pages of forgotten books.
In the Theosophical Society there should be the atmosphere of wisdom, the fragrance that belongs to beautiful living. It is not enough to have knowledge of a purely mental sort. The Society should consist of persons whose life is becoming different, purer, more friendly, more beautiful in every way.
If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religious values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.
In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the ‘edge of history.’ There would be a real New Age.
Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self-deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.