Quote-A-Day in Hospitals

While visiting a friend in the hospital, Vandana wondered if there was a way to do something small to cheer up the patients. She thought of an idea of putting a insightful quote on the wall, and asking the hospital janitors to switch the quotes from one room to another everyday, as they clean the room everyday. That way, the patient gets to ponder of a new quote daily! Being the artist that she is, Vandana started making hand-made quotes like the ones shown below -- and now, Tata Memorial Hospital has agreed to pilot the project! If you're a photographer or a graphic designer, we'd love to hear from you and engage your creativity as well.

  

Below are the short-listed quotes, and do let know if you have more to share!

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." -- Marcel Proust

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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. --The Dalai Lama

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Theresa

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. --The Dalai Lama

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. --Ram Dass

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. --Thomas Merton

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. --Ken Keyes Jr.

It is simple. We are where we should be, doing what we should be doing. Otherwise we would be somewhere else, doing something else. --Richard Stine1

Gratitude is the best attitude - Anonymous

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. -- Francis of Assisi

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. -unknown

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. -Peace Pilgrim

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. --Gandhi

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. --Don Miguel Ruiz

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love. --Mother Theresa

Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it. --Gandhi

We must become the change we want to see in the world. --Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS. --Gandhi

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. --Marcel Proust

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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. --The Dalai Lama

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. --Mother Theresa

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. --The Dalai Lama

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth. --Ram Dass

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. --Thomas Merton

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. --Ken Keyes Jr.

It is simple. We are where we should be, doing what we should be doing. Otherwise we would be somewhere else, doing something else. --Richard Stine

In every community there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. -Marianne Williamson

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. -Garrison Keillor

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. -Louis Pasteur

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. --Unknown

Those who are awake live in a state of constant amazement. -Jack Kornfield

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing. -Zimbabwan proverb

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. -John Ruskin

What you see is evidence of what you believe. Believe it and you'll see it. -Dr Wayne W Dyer

Before enlightenment ... chopping wood, carrying water. After enlightenment ... chopping wood, carrying water. -Zen proverb

When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. -Patrick Overton

A loving person lives in a loving world, A hostile person lives in a hostile world, Everyone you meet is your mirror. -Ken Keyes, Jr