"Expect people to be better than they are; 
it helps them to become better. 
But don't be disappointed when they are not; 
it helps them to keep trying."

~ Merry Browne

"Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant."

~ Stephen Covey

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart truly desires must come to you."

~ Shakti Gawain

"Don't pole-vault over mouse turds."

~ Wayne Dyer

"Suffering is not an elective; 
it is a core course in the University of Life."

~ Steven J. Lawson

"Remember, don't waste time comparing your life to others who seem more fortunate. Being fortunate is based on how much peace you have, not how many luxuries or conveniences you have. Practice from the heart to make peace with what is."

~ Doc Childre

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach 
unless our walking is our preaching."

~ Saint Francis Of Assisi

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cures. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace--a gift of god, a message from the unconscious, if you will, to initiate self-examination and repair."

~ M. Scott Peck
The Road Less Traveled

"Even with our differences 
There is a place we're all connected
Each of us can find each other's light,
There's so much to be thankful for."

~ Josh Groban
Thankful

"To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life."

~ Charles Horton Cooley

"There is more to life than merely increasing its speed."

~ Gandhi

"Freedom is the basic concept and construct of life everywhere, because freedom is the basic nature of God. All systems which reduce, restrict, impinge upon or eliminate freedom in any way are systems which work against life itself."

~ Neale Donald Walsch

"The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life. The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is a tool of magic."

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

"A word on miracles.... 
Don't let those that have not yet transpired, blind you to those that have."

~ Mike Dooley

"We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness."

~ Aharadon David Gordon

"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"Indian wisdom says our lives are rivers. We are born somewhere small and quiet and we move toward a place we cannot see, but only imagine. Along our journey, people and events flow into us, and we are created of everywhere and everyone we have passed."

~ Linda Wingate

"It is when we go beyond our edge that we discover the next layer of potential, experience ourselves and our relationship to the world in a new way, and find new meaning to the concept of possibility."

~ Alan Seale

"The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how."

~ Marianne Williamson
The Age Of Miracles: Embracing The New Midlife

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."

~ Herbert Simon

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."

~ Richard P. Feynman

"So you see that you cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority. There is only you--your relationship with others and with the world--there is nothing else."

~ Krishnamurti

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others,
that in the end we become disguised to ourselves." 

~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"Feelings are you inner guidance system--your emotional compass. When you allow this compass to direct your actions you build self-trust. When you feel hungry, you eat. When you feel tired, you rest. When you feel lonely, you reach out for a connection to others. In this most basic way your feelings link you with the wisest part of yourself. They tell you what you need to know at any given moment."

~ Cheryl Richardson

"Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as they applaud, and being there first is usually lonely. But our protection cannot come between us and our purpose. Right protection is something within us rather than something between us and the world, more about finding a place of refuge and strength than finding a hiding place." 

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

"Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher."

~ Oprah Winfrey

"The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying."

~ Eckhart Tolle

"Be content with what you have;
Rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, 
The whole world belongs to you."

~ Lao-Tzu

"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened." 

~ Thomas Jefferson

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

~ Albert Einstein

"Peace doth not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in an exemption from suffering."

"If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic."

~ Hazel Henderson

"The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up."

~ Jesse Jackson

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature."

~ Helen Keller

"Like any other major experience, illness actually changes us. How? Well for one thing we are temporarily relieved from the pressure of meeting the world head on. We enter a world of introspection and self-analysis. We think soberly, perhaps for the first time, about our past and future. Illness gives us that rarest thing in the world--a second chance, not only at health, but at life itself!"

~ Louis E. Bisch, MD

"When we talk about settling the world's problems,
we're barking up the wrong tree.
The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We're not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives."

~ Joseph Campbell

"Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment."

~ Tarthang Tulku

"The voices inside you
can lead your soul astray
Believe in what you dream
Don't turn away
don't you turn away.
Reach for the light
You might touch the sky
Stand on the mountaintop
and see yourself flying
Reach for the light
to capture a star
Come out of the darkness
and find out who you are."

~ Steve Winwood

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness and may possibly be injurious to the intellect and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature."

~ Charles Darwin

"Walk out of any doorway
feel your way, feel your way
like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction
around some corner
where it's been waiting to meet you."

~ Robert Hunter

"If you are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace with everyone, and everyone will be at peace."

~ Thomas Merton

"One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God."

~ C.G. Jung

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."

~ Rachel Carson

"Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but is already there, in relaxation and letting go. Nothing to do, nothing to force, nothing to want, and everything happens by itself."

~ Lama Gendun Rinpoche

"Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing that it is not fish that they are after."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance."

~ Tao Te Ching

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

~ Lord Buddha

"You can map out a light plan or a life plan,
but when the action starts,
it may not go the way you planned,
and you're down to the reflexes
you developed in training.
That's where roadwork shows --
the training you did in the dark of the mornin'
will show when you're under the bright lights."

~ Joe Frazier

"Work and life are an interconnected adventure, guided by the heart, winged with spirit, and nourished by the soul."

~ Ron Rubin & Stuart Avery Gold

"You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give and posses the light as the lens does... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely a a means.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

"And the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

~ Anaïs Nin

"How can a man's life keep it's course
If he will not let it flow,
Those who flow as life flows know
They need no other force:
They feel no wear, they feel no tear,
They need no mending, no repair."

~ Lao-tzu

"Normal is someone you don't know very well."

~ Anonymous

"That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability."

~ Ernest Holmes

"We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe most, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly."

~ Shakti Gawain

"The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself."

~ Joseph Murphy

"There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have."

~ Annie Lennox

"For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine."

~ Jack Kornfield

"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."

~ Sheldon Kopp

"The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at somebody else, but you're the one who gets burned."

~ The Buddha

"When I look at the world, I'm pessimistic.
But when I look at people, I'm optimistic."

~ Carl Rogers

"Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect."

~ Oren Arnold

"Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on earth. This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in
singular acts of kindness between people. It's the little things that count, because they are more spontaneous and show who you truly are."

~ Dannion Brinkley

"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice."

~ Meister Eckhart 

"Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us."

~ The Dalai Lama

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

~ Maya Angelou

"When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are,
look within and examine your own self."

~ Confucius

"Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health—the balance and harmony we lost when we were born. If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we're healing."

~ Bernie Siegel

"We are not here just to survive and live long .... We are here to live and know life in it's multi-dimensions, to know life in its richness, in all it's variety. And when a man lives multi-dimensionally, explores all possibilities available, never shrinks back from a challenge, goes, rushes to it, welcomes it, rises to the occasion then life becomes a flame, life blooms."

~ Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge--that myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts--that hope always triumphs over experience--that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."

"Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent."

"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few."

~ Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

"Choices in a meditator's life are very simple: Do those things that contribute to your awareness, and refrain from those things that do not."

~ Sujata

"How do we know if our practice is a real practice? Only by one thing: more and more, we just see the wonder. What is the wonder? I don't know. We can't know such things through thinking. But we always know it when it's there."

~ Charlotte Joko Beck

"One thing that comes out of myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light."

~ Joseph Campbell

"The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist."

~ Ghalib

"Every decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or toward your soul. Each decision you make is an answer to the question, 'How do you choose to learn love?', 'How do you choose to learn authentic empowerment--through doubt and fear, or through wisdom?'"

~ Gary Zukav

"Don't look for any other state than the one you are in now; otherwise, you will set up inner conflict and unconscious resistance. Forgive yourself for not being at peace. The moment you completely accept your non-peace, your non-peace becomes transmuted into peace. Anything you accept fully will get you there, will take you into peace. This is the miracle of surrender."

~ Eckhart Tolle

"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair."

~ Nelson Mandela

"Overcome anger by non-anger, overcome evil by good. Overcome the miser by giving, overcome the liar by truth."

~ The Dhammapada

"Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action."

~ Anthony Robbins

"Soul cannot thrive in a fast-paced life because being affected, taking things in and chewing on them, requires time."

~ Thomas Moore

"As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences."

~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Intellect and a trained brain-mind are great adjuncts, but they often become barriers to truth and a true expression of Divine Love."

~ Sister Francis Banks 
as channeled by Helen Greaves

"Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit."

~ Stanislav Grof M.D., Ph.D.

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite."

~ William Shakespeare

"We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives--right here, right now."

~ Peter Russell

"As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems."

~ M. Scott Peck

"Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think."

~ Martin Seligman

"It's a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your destiny. It prepares your spirit and your will, because there is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."

~ Paulo Coelho

"Practice radical humility when it comes to your own accomplishments, and give credit everywhere except to your ego."

~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

"He has achieved success
who has lived well,
laughed often, and loved much;
who has enjoyed the trust of pure women,
the respect of intelligent men
and the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who has left the world better than he found it
whether by an improved poppy,
a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty
or failed to express it;
who has always looked for the best in others
and given them the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration;
whose memory a benediction."

~ Bessie Stanley

"When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere."

~ Sathya Sai Baba

"We are all teachers, and what we teach is what we learn, and so we teach it over and over again until we learn..."

~ A Course in Miracles

"All true things must change and only that which changes remains true."

~ C.G. Jung

"No matter how upside-down it all may temporarily appear, we will have no fear because we know this secret: Life is crazily in love with us--wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it... Love is an act of heroic genius."

~ Rob Brenzy

"If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."

~ Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam in it."

~ Sri Nityananda

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.  Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." 

~ Henry Ward Beecher

"And remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand."

~ E.K. Brough

"The true Light is a gentle love which, rising in you, causes you to look on the world with understanding and compassion and respect. When you respect the souls of your brother and sister, you respect their lives in every way. This gentle spirit, this respect one for another, must come. For this is the generation of the one true Light, and this true light is that of love."

~ White Eagle

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."

~ Robert Fritz 

"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear they are real. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking--we take it personally--then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison in our word. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make assumptions, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing."

~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

"We are constantly subjected to this army of bad-news collectors who gather and disseminate low-vibrational energy for our consumption. Keeping in mind that being inspired is about feeling good and returning to our Source of love, it's imperative to become aware of what we're allowing into our consciousness. These bad-news assemblers are on a mission to convince us of the inherent evil in the world-they can't possibly believe that we live in a friendly Universe, and they seem determined to convince us that their illusion is truth... I'm not suggesting that we stay uniformed or in a state of blissful ignorance; rather, I'm saying that awareness is the key to staying in-Spirit when we're force-fed a steady diet of low-energy news."

~ Dr. Wayne Dyer, Inspiration

"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe."

~ Claudia Black

"Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows."

~ Friedrich von Schlegel 

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child--our own two eyes. All is a miracle."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."

~ Kahlil Gibran

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge."

~ Confucius

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

~ Marcel Proust

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

~ Alfred D. Souza

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

~ Stephen Levine

"You are not here to please other people or to live your lives their way. You can only live it your own way and walk your own pathway. You have come [here] to fulfill yourself and express love on the deepest level. You are here to learn and grow... When you leave the planet... the only thing you take is your capacity to love!"

~ Louise Hay

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

~ Tao Tzu

" To err is human; to forgive, divine." 

~ Alexander Pope

"The best way out is through."

~ Robert Frost

"Ordinarily, the questions are: Someone is doing something I do not like; how can I get them to do something I do like instead? What you will come to understand is that trying to get [everyone in] the world [to all] do one thing, or to do the things that you like, it is a much better plan to put yourself in a position to accept that everyone else has the right to be or do or have whatever they are wanting; and you, through the power of your thoughts, will attract unto you only that which is in harmony with you."

~ Abraham

"Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny." 

~ Carl Schurz

"The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into,  nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever." 

~ Booth Tarkington

"Man is a universe within himself." 

~ Bob Marley

"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well."

~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross

"Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action."

~ Anna Lappe

"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge
exists to make things better."

~ King Whitney Jr.

"We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…[but] there are times 
when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin 
to whisper."

~ James Carroll

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

~ Buddha

"One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want."

~ Proverbs 11:24

"Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive."

~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

~ John Muir

"If you could spend your time envisioning what you want, instead of giving your attention to the reality of what is, you would be
attracting more of what you want rather than more of what is.."

~ Abraham

"Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong."

~ Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend upon the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."

~ Albert Einstein

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

~ Oprah Winfrey

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

~ James Joyce, Ulysses

"It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest."

~ Dorothy Canfield

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

~ Vaclav Havel

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and
more.  It turns denial into acceptance, chaos
to order, confusion to clarity.  It can turn
a meal into a feast, a house into a home,
a stranger into a friend.  Gratitude makes
sense of our past, brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow."

~ Melody Beattie

"God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them,  however great or small that injury may be."

~ Immaculee Ilibagiza

"Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth."

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you have trouble loving yourself, imagine that everyone in the world is a hungry soul whose life has been imperfect. Like you, they had imperfect parents. Like you, tragedies and difficulties befell them. If you could hear each person's story, you would probably be moved to tears and want to reach out and embrace that person. You would want to tell them thatin spite of everything they've gone through, they have great value."

~ Daphne Rose Kingma

"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

~ T.S. Eliot

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exists, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy."

~ Charles Dana 
(Editorial in the New York Sun, 1897, responding to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon)

"Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, 
but already I could feel my being turned--
instinct and intellect balanced equally.
as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars--
by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars."

~ Dante

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

~ Anne Frank

"We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with 
awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it."

~ Bill Clinton

"There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The mind's eye has a special relationship with the healing system."

~ Andrew Weil

"Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it."

~ Hazrat Inayat Hhan

"Creativity comes from the spiritual realm, the collective consciousness. And the mind is in a different realm than the molecules of the brain. The brain is a receiver, not a source."

~ Candace Pert

"My boat strikes something deep.
At first sounds of silence, waves.
Nothing has happened;
Or perhaps everything has happened.
and I am sitting in my new life."

~ Rumi

"Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are."

~ John Sheerin

"To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is Angelic."

~ Alphonse de Lamartine

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

~ Brendan Gill

"Keep on asking and it will be given to you; keep on seeking and you will find...."

~ Matthew 7:7

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It gives human beings a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

~ Norman Cousins

"You can clean your aura and raise your vibration by giving thanks. The resonance of gratitude in your body vibrates with your heart center. It allows you to open and receive more."

~ Sanaya Roman

"For as long as I can remember, people said I would never be able to do anything. My parents and I believed I could, and we've been proving them wrong ever since."

~ Rick Hoyt

"There is a difference between motivation and inspiration.
Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse--when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you're no longer in charge, that there's a driving force inside you that can't be stopped."

~ Wayne Dyer

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. 
Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."

~ Patanjali

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away.

~ Henry David Thoureau

"Years wrinkle the skin. But to lose enthusiasm in life wrinkles the soul."

~ Anonymous

"Morality, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines--these are trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous becomes the norm."

~ Henry Miller

"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'"

~ Ann Landers

"I hated every minute of the training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

~ Muhammad Ali

"Dealt with it. Done with it. Empowered by it!"

~ John Holland

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy that is translated through you; and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique."

~ Martha Graham

"Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit."

~ Mary Lou Retton

"The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."

~ Ivy Baker Priest

"We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are."

~ The Talmud

"One thing that comes out of myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light."

~ Joseph Campbell

"The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from and explosion in a print shop."

~ Albert Einstein

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity."

~ World Health Organization

"Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous."

~ Doris Lessing

"Some things are true whether you believe in them or not."

~ Angel Seth in City Of Angels

"I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us--everything that exists--proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision."

~ Thomas A. Edison

"Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come."

~ Chinese proverb