Inspiration Reflections on Time, Love, Peace and Order
At Cherished, we understand that words can bring quiet comfort. Below is a curated collection of well-known poems and quotes that touch on the enduring nature of love, the peace of remembrance, and the gentle passage of time — drawing from global traditions, faiths and philosophies.
On time
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all."
Pericles
"They say that time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite."
Cassandra Clare
"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven."
Ecclesiastes 3:1
"Time, which sees all things, has found you out."
Sophocles
"Nothing is ever lost, for all returns in time to the source."
Bhagavad Gita (Hinduism)
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose; all that we deeply love becomes a part of us."
Helen Keller
On love
"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends."
1 Corinthians 13:7-8
"What is loved is never lost."
Toni Morrison
"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."
Emily Dickinson
"Grief is the price we pay for love."
Queen Elizabeth II
""Those who act with love will never be forgotten."
The Dhammapada (Buddhism)
"To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is not to die."
Thomas Campbell
On Peace
"Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of order and purpose."
Pericles
"Let peace begin with me."
Jill Jackson Miller
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
Rumi
"Come to the quiet, where hearts rest."
Anon
"Verily, in the remembrance of God do hearts find peace."
Quran 13:28 (Islam)
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
Buddha
On order and continuity
"There’s a reason the windshield is bigger than the rearview mirror — it’s about where you’re going, not where you’ve been."
Joel Osteen
"Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is just show up."
Brené Brown
"You don’t find peace by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolf
"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
Pearl S. Buck
"There is a kind of quiet dignity in putting things in their place."
The Dhammapada (Buddhism)
"Ritual is the way we carry the invisible into the visible world."
Matthew Fox
"To tend a place is to honour a presence."
Cherished
"He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings never turns away from it."
Isha Upanishad (Hinduism)
Let these words guide you, calm you, or simply sit beside you in moments of stillness.
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