Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.

-Catherine Marshall

The right attitude for studying the way is just complete spontaneous
acquiescence. Who cares whether it takes twenty or thirty years; you’ll
be naturally at peace, without the slightest bit of doubt or confusion.
How can there be any obstruction again after spontaneous acquiescence?
How can anyone arrive by way of externals?

-Ming-pen

Real peace will arise spontaneously

When your mind becomes free

Of attachments,

When you know that the objects of the world

Can never give you what you really want.

-Theragatha

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like
the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all.

-Buddha

Do not go after the past,
Nor lose yourself in the future.
For the past no longer exists,
And the future is not yet here.
By looking deeply at things just as they are,
In this moment, here and now,
The seeker lives calmly and freely.
You should be attentive today,
For waiting until tomorrow is too late.
Death can come and take us by surprise–
How can we gainsay it?
The one who knows
How to live attentively
Night and day
Is the one who knows
The best way to be independent.

-Bhaddekaratta Sutra

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

-Mother Teresa

From the time there appears in this world one who has seen the truth, a
fully awakened one, blessed by the truth, abounding in happiness, a
teacher of wisdom and goodness, a buddha. He, by himself, thoroughly
knows and sees this universe, and knowing it, makes his knowledge known
to others. The truth, lovely in its origin, lovely in its progress,
lovely in its consummation, he proclaims. A new life he makes known, in
all its fullness.

-Tevigga Sutta

I say that you may call on God by whatever name you please. You may
call him God, or you may call him the Merciful. He has the best of
names.

-Qu’ran, Al-Isra, Surah 17:110

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and
another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory,
because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

-Buddha