- "With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" - Oscar Wilde
- "Sometimes you've got to jump off cliffs and grow wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
- "Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha." - Robert Brault
- "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they are right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe
- "Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." -- Dr. Seuss
- "Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it."
- "Never blame anyone in your Life. Good people give you Happiness. Bad people give you Experience. Worst people give you a Lesson & Best people give you memories."
- "An aging Hindu master grew tired of his apprentice complaining, and so, one morning, sent him for some salt. When the apprentice returned, the Master instructed the un-happy young man to put a handful of salt into a glass of water, and then to drink it. “How does it taste?” the master asked. “Bitter,” spit the apprentice. The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake, and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, “Now, drink from the lake.” As the water dripped down the young mans chin, the master asked, “How does it taste?” “Fresh,” remarked the apprentice. “Do you taste the salt?” asked the master. “No,” said the young man. At this, the master sat beside the serious young man who so reminded him of himself and took his hands offering, “The pain of life is pure salt; No more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is enlarge your sense of things…stop being a container. Become a lake." -- Marc Nepo
- "You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." -- Jim Rohn
- "No one can bother you unless you agree with them." -- Alan Cohen
- "First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times." -- Norman Vincent Peale
- "Accept what is. Don’t run from it anymore. Don’t dwell on it either. Just acknowledge what is, and see where the clarity takes you. You’ll be surprised. My final thought is this. After a particularly hard day, a few days after I had lost my job and realized I would have to give up my apartment, I was angry. I was really sad but also really angry. I kept thinking about that word Fair, and how this Wasn’t! I don’t know where they came from, but when I laid down to sleep that night, these words came over me: You were trusted with this illness. And that, among all the health advice I’d ever received, made me feel better." -- Mary from 25pillsaday.wordpress.com
- "When the world says, 'Give up,' Hope whispers, 'Try it one more time.'"
- "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "The sun never says to the earth,'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky." - Hafiz
- "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams
- "It is absurd to divide people into good & bad. People are either charming or tedious." -- Oscar Wilde
- "Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it wants. The way it stops and starts." -- Edgar Allan Poe
- "Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." -- Christopher Robin to Winnie the Pooh
- "You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer." -- Caroline Myss
- "Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Don't search for answers now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything." -- Rainer Maria Rilke
- "May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
- "I want to be your favorite hello, and hardest goodbye."
- "Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. Failure is an option, but fear is not." -- James Cameron
- "Patience child, patience. Remember, life is a journey. If you got everything you wanted all at once there'd be no point to living. Enjoy the ride, and in the end you'll see these "set backs" as giant leaps forward, only you couldn't see the bigger picture in the moment. Remain calm, all is within reach; all you have to do is show up everyday, stay true to your path and you will surely find the treasure you seek." -- Jackson Kiddard
- "The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them." --D.H. Lawrence
- "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it! Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -- Howard Thurman
- "Let today be a day where you take nothing for granted. For life is fleeting, fragile and precious and can change on a whim. Say all the things you really want to say to your loved ones today, say the things you would regret should they pass on and your words remain unspoken. Rejoice, for you and they are alive today - and should you or them pass on to unknown shores, rejoice even more for you have a wonderful love story to tell." -- Jackson Kiddard
- Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." -- H. D. Thoreau
- "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
- "What would I do if I never came here?...But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen." -- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
- "The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." - M. Scott Peck
- "Every day, God gives us, as well as the sun, a moment when it is possible to change anything that is causing us unhappiness." - Paulo Coelho
- "At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." - Albert Schweitzer
oct 27 2011 ∞
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