We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Listen to the wind; it talks. Listen to the silence; it speaks. Listen to your heart; it knows.

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.

Humankind did not weave the web of life; we are merely a single strand within it.

The frog does not drink up the entire pond in which it makes its home.

Silence is the absolute balance of body, mind, and spirit.

Do not judge your neighbor until you have walked two full moons in their moccasins.

When you were born, you cried while the whole village rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the village weeps while you rejoice.

The soul would possess no radiant rainbow had the eyes no tears.

There is no death, only a change of sacred worlds.

Those who have one foot in the canoe and one foot on the shore will soon tumble into the river.

The river flows through the granite canyon not by fighting the stone, but by embracing its contours.

The cedar tree does not argue with the pine; each reaches quietly toward the same sun.

When a deer falls to the hunter's arrow, the hunter kneels and gives thanks to the spirit of the deer.

Trouble no one about their sacred faith; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.

If you speak with the living creatures, they will speak with you and you will know one another.

The heart that harbors bitterness is like a smokehouse with no chimney: it slowly chokes the inhabitant to death.

Listen with the ear of your heart, not just with the ear of your head.

All creatures, two-legged, four-legged, winged, and rooted, are sacred relatives in the great circle of life.

The morning sun rises to warm the earth for everyone, not just for the grand chief.

A good story told with love heals the sick in spirit and guides the lost back to the council fire.

Do not fear the dark trail; the stars shine with their purest brilliance only when the night is deepest.

Wisdom arrives only when you stop chasing it in noisy words and seek it in sacred silence.

He who respects the living waters will never perish of thirst in the desert.

Humility is the father of all virtue; the great mountain does not boast of its height, yet the entire valley honors it.

Walk in balance and sacred beauty wherever your moccasins touch the living earth.

A brave warrior does not run from the storm; he runs directly into it, knowing that the fastest way through is head-on.

Treat every elder as your own grandparent, every contemporary as your sibling, and every child as your own son or daughter.

The seed that is buried in the dark earth is not dead; it is simply preparing to dance in the sunlight.

May the stars carry your sadness away; may the flowers fill your heart with beauty; may hope forever wipe away your tears.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.