Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! ~Dr. Seuss

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. ~Buddha

“If we could live without passion maybe we’d know some kind of peace … but we would be hollow … Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we’d be truly dead.” - Joss Whedon

“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.” – Angela Monet

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” – Sir Isaac Newton

“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.” – W.H. Auden

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” – Ernest Hemingway

“We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.” -- Epicurus

“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” - Albert Einstein

Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact, we often feel because of the way we act. More than a century ago, philosopher and psychologist William James described this phenomenon: “Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.” By acting as if you feel a certain way, you induce that emotion in yourself.

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives – the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ~Mother Teresa

Be the change you seek in the world –Ghandi

I love actors and by extension, the theatre. I love the minutia that surrounds them both. I love listening and telling Green Room War stories. I love the onstage triumphs and yes, I love even the disasters. I love the adrenaline that shoots thru every Actor on stage when something goes wrong, and the relief that

sweeps thru when some heroic Actor saves the day. I love performance. The time when the human beings on stage interact with the human beings in the audience and together they create the event of performance. It's one of life's most civilized experiences. It has been said that an Actor must have the hide of a rhinoceros, the courage and audacity of a lion, and most importantly, the fragile vulnerability of an egg. It also has been said, and I'm not sure by whom, that the moment of not knowing is the moment that has the potential for creativity. The professional and private lives of Actors are filled to the brim with moments of not knowing. Actors are survivors and will continue to strive because they have the need to celebrate, in performance, that sacred communion between Actor and audience."-Robert Prosky

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make someone else happy;One of the best ways to make someone else happy is to be happy yourself. Happy people make people happy. Making people happy makes people happy.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius

Feelings are for the present moment... It is by being fully present now that we reach the fullness of tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie

"It is often said that the best creative work accomplished by anyone at any time is done at the point of desperation (desperation understood as the most intense degree of desire)".As long as we remain conscious through our outer hearing of any effects vocally produced, we will not be able to allow vocal sounds their fullest expansion and radiation…Vocal resonance, Barbereux-Parry)

"Love and Art amplify the small things", Goethe

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.” – Winston Churchill

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.” – Chinese Proverb

“The shortest answer is DOING.” – Lord Herbert

* “I LOVE LIVING. I think that’s infectious.”

“Greatness truly exists in all of us.”

“We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn’t matter.”

“Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”

” I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented, where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic. While the other guy is sleeping, I’m working. While the other guy is eating, I’m working.”

“If you don’t dedicate yourself to becoming better every single day, you will never be able to communicate with people the way that you want.”

“The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is that I’m not afraid to DIE on a treadmill. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, but if we get on a treadmill together, there are two things: 1- You’re getting off firstOR2- I’m gonna DIEIt’s really that simple”

“You don’t try to build a wall. You don’t set out and say ‘I’m gonna build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that has ever been built’. You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid’. You do this every single day, and soon you have a wall.”

“If you are not making someone else’s life better, then you are wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other people’s lives better.”

” The first step before anyone else in the world believes it is that YOU have to believe it.”

– WILL SMITH

* “Empty your mind.Be formless, shapeless, like water.If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.Water can flow, and it can crash.Be like water, my friend…”

‘Being’ is more valued than ‘doing’

“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving be like water.”

“The only constant is change” “Accept the things you cannot change, and change the things you cannot accept.” “Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”

– BRUCE LEE

“It’s your work in life that is the ultimate seduction” – Pablo Picasso

“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can” – Elsa Maxwell

“Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.” – Anthony Robbins

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease” – Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism

“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” – Leo Buscaglia

“Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.” – Chongyam Trungpa

“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” – Robert McCloskey (LISTENING)

“It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, it matters how you’re doing it.” – Dan Savage

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” -Carl Gustav Jung

“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to n

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” –Winston Churchill

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” –Louisa May Alcott

“The first rule of focus is ‘Wherever you are be there.’”

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” –Ashley Smith

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” –Plato

“Stop trying to fit in when you were born to stand out” –Movie: What a Girl Wants

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” –Charles Horton Cooley

“To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.”

“Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.” –Aldous Huxley

“First we form habits then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they’ll eventually conquer you.” –Dr. Rob Gilbert

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” –William A. Foster

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” –Henry Ford

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” –Steve Jobs

“In Imagination, there’s no limitation.” –Mark Victor Hansen

“The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.” –William Dafoe

“Destiny is no matter of chance, it is a matter of choice: it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” –William Jennings Bryan

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.” -Harriet Tubman

“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace.With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

“Not until human nature is other than what it is, will the function of the living voice-the greatest force on earth among men-cease. . . I advocate, therefore, in its full extent, and for every reason of humanity, of patriotism, and of religion, a more through culture of oratory and I define oratory to be the art of influencing conduct with the truth set home by all the resources of the living man.” -Henry Ward Beecher

“Oratory is the masculine of music.” -John Atgeld

“You are not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.” – Tyler Durden

“Like Gravity, Karma is so basic we often don’t notice it” –Sakyong Mipham

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop” –Ovid

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure” –Lee Segall

“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.” –George Washington, 1st. US President

“All our knowledge begins with senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” –Immanuel Kant

“To build may have been the laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.” –Winston Churchill

“However great an evil immortality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.” –Wilhelm von Humboldt

“No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.” –Jean Paul

“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.” –Charles Schwab

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” –Socrates

“To know one’s own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: Rationality.” –Ayn Rand

“They only babble who practice not reflection.” –Edward Young

“It is thrifty to prepare for today for the wants of tomorrow.” –Aesop

“Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.” –Joseph Conrad

“It’s a terrible situation, but you just have to roll with the punches. I don’t worry about it. There’s nothing you can do about it.” –Otis Williams

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” –Vince Lombardi

“Mistakes are a part of being human. Apprentice your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” –Al Franken

“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.” –Bo Bennett

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” –George Santayana

“Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.” –Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President

“Yes I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.” –Henry Rollins

“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” –Thomas Jefferson

“Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.” –Roger Van Oech

“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.” –Louis E. Boone

“I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I’ll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.” –Jack Handy

“The number one benefit of information technology is that empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” – Steve Ballmer

“O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” –William Shakespeare

“I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I’ve been labeled’ the bisexual defector’ in print. Want to know another secret? I’m even ambidextrous. I don’t like labels. Just call me Martina” –Martina Navratilova

“Every true genius is bound to be naïve” –Friedrich von Schiller

“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.” –Margaret Thatcher

“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.” -Sylvester Stallone

“Art consist of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” –Gilbert K. Chesteron

“Things do not change; we change.” –Henry David Thoreau

“Wherever I go, it will be well with me.” “No man is free who is not master of himself.” –Epictetus

“Get rid of the judgment… get rid of the ‘I am hurt,’ you are rid of the hurt itself” “How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which a happens in life!” –Marcus Aurelius

“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away” “Virtue is nothing else than right reason” –Seneca

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that’s why I succeed.” –Michael Jordan

“He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Attitude almost always determines your altitude in life”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.” --Epicurus

“Smile, breathe and go slowly.” - Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Buddhist monk

“A writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.” -Ernest Hemingway

“To be Sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be Present in all that one does, from the effort of loving, to the breaking of bread.” –James Baldwin

“Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognize it” –Okakura Kakuzo

“The truth is always near at hand, within your reach” – D.T. Suzuki

“Zen is simply… that state of centeredness which is here and now” – Alan Watts

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.” – The Dhammapada

“The true man sees what the eye sees, and does not add to it something that is not there. He hears what the ears hear, and does not detect imaginary undertones or overtones. He…is not busy with hidden meanings.” – Chuang Tzu

“Every day is a good day” – Ummon

“If you really knew how to live, what better way to start than with a smile? ... Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding…Smile with your whole being” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” – Dogen

“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, no one can help you as much.” – The Dhammapada

“My mind is the guiding-rein” – The Buddha

“Think with the whole body” – Taisen Deshimaru

“The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.” – Atisha

“Associate with worthy companions” –Dogen

“Obey the nature of things, and you will walk freely and undisturbed” – Seng- Ts’an

“Seeing through to ESSENTIAL NATURE is the window of enlightenment.” – Hakuun Yasutani Roshi

“The sage blends everything into a harmonious whole. He is unmindful of the confusion and the gloom, and equalizes the humble and the honorable.” –Chuang Tzu

“One in all, all in one- If only this is realized, No more worry about your not being perfect!” – Seng Ts’an

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge with it, move with it, and join the dance” –Alan Watts

“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” – Chuang Tzu

“He who has known the contentment that comes simply through being content will never again be otherwise than contented.” – Tao Te Ching

“To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.” – Shunryu Suzuki

“When you can be calm in the midst of activity, this is the true state of nature… When you can be happy in the midst of hardship, then you see the true potential of the mind. – Huachu Daoren

“Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle… Nothing is as it appears” – The Buddha

“You should not be surprised at whatever you see or hear… If you are ready to accept things as they are you will receive them as old friends” – Sahunryu Suzuki

“Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. – Bhaddekaratta Sutta

“The present moment is a wonderful moment” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Never say “I cannot” for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything. –Swami Vivekananda

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” – William Shakespeare

“There is but one Life, one World, one Existence. Everything is that One… Who can find any real distance between the wave and the sea? – Swami Vivekanada

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” ~ Buddha

Stop settling for what’s good enough and start creating art that matters. Stop asking what’s in it for you and start giving gifts that change people. Then, and only then, will you have achieved your potential. ~ Seth Godin

"It’s the possibility of a dream coming true that makes life interesting." ~ Paulo Coelho

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci

"My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life." - Miles Davis

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” -- Carl Jung

“Life is full of beauty. Notice it.” -Ashley Smith

“The cost of failure is not that a saber-toothed tiger eats you... the cost of failure is nothing. The worst thing that will happen is that you will fail and no one will notice.” Seth Godin

“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” –Flora Wittemore

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao Tzu

"It’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important." – Steve Jobs

"If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight like Hell" – Lance Armstrong

"If people aren’t looking at you funny, then you’re not pushing the envelope." – Jay Z

"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." – Walt Disney

“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.” – Jon Bon Jovi

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” – Bruce Lee

"Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.” – Boone Pickens

"I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me. “– Brad Pitt

“I don't look ahead... I keep focused on my next opponent. I am looking forwardto my next opponent, I don't think past that point.” – Manny Pacquiao

"I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money." - Nouriel Roubini

“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.” – Howard Schultz

"My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them. “– Russel Simmons

A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world. – Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who

desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. – Theodore Roosevelt

Allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! – Frederick Douglass

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. – Thomas Edison

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first. – Harry S. Truman

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. – Henry Ford

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out. – Ronald Reagan

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney

“Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires Stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.” ~ Lao Tzu

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful. – Buddha

“If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life.” ~Wu-Men

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” - Charlie Chaplin

“80% percent of success is showing up.” ~Woody Allen

“Motion creates emotion” -Tony Robbins

“Fear is the path to the dark side, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.” – Yoda

“It’s not the strongest of the species nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” ~Charles Darwin

“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are right.” ~Henry Ford (BELIEF!!!)

“It takes humility to seek feedback. it takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it, and appropriately act on it.~ Stephen R. Covey

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity — T.S. Eliot (Look at history’s best Artist/Writers, they’re all insane to some degree — and that’s part of what makes them so damn good.)

“We do not try things because they are hard, they are hard because we do not try them.”~Seneca

Success is the peace of mind which is the direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you made the effort to become the best at what you are capable of becoming.” / ‘When I am through learning, then I am through,’ ~ John Wooden

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.” ~ James Allen

“Try not to become a man of success, try rather, to become a man of value” ~Einstein

“If you do the things you ought to do–when you ought to do them–the day will come when you can do the things you want to do–when you want to do them!” ~ Zig Ziglar

“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.” ~ Walt Disney

There are no original ideas. There are only original people. ~Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.” -Marva Collins

"Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you." - Vipin Sharma

*“On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero”

“This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time”

“One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort”

“If you don’t know what you want,” the doorman said, “you end up with a lot you don’t.”

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect”

“I just don’t want to die without a few scars”

“The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says”

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves”

“It’s only after you’ve lost everything,” Tyler says, “that you’re free to do anything.”

“You’re not your job. You’re not your family, and you’re not who you tell yourself…. You’re not your name…. You’re not your problems…. You’re not your age…”

“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else”- The upside is we are all in the same boat. Everyone starts somewhere. The trick is to start.

“The best way to waste your life, … is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don’t participate.”

- TYLER DURDEN

"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."- Georg Hegel

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” - Frank Lloyd Wright

"I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get me going rather than retreat." - Sylvester Stallone

”Be Yourself Because Everyone Else Is Already Taken!”

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute or an hour or a day or a year, but… eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit however, it will last forever.” – Lance Armstrong

“I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned so that even it up for me.” – Jay Z

“Don’t let failure go to your heart and don’t let success go to your head.” – Will Smith

Luck is hard work. - “I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” - Thomas Jefferson

Luck is believing in luck. - “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” - Tennessee Williams

Luck is preparation meeting opportunity. - “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” - Oprah Winfrey

Luck is taking chances. -  “If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” -Brian Tracy

Luck is making your own luck. - “In the long run, you make your own luck: good, bad, or indifferent.” -Loretta Lynn

Luck is taking action. - “The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.” - Barbara Sher

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.” ~Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer

“You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.” ~Gandhi

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven wrote music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry, he should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” –Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole world would be clean” –Mother Teresa

“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities” – Dr Seuss

"Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of someone else." -Judy Garland

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – A Return to Love by Williamson

”The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.” - Monica Baldwin

"Words are things and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." - George Gordon Byron

"The human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language." - James Earl Jones

  "A word is dead/When it is said/Some say/ I say it just/Begins to live/That day" - Emily Dickinson

"Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them!" - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience." - Ingrid Bengis

"Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." --Howard Thurman

"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."  - Elizabeth Kenny

“I blind people by the light of my AWSOMENESS” – Kung Fu Panda

“The more you invest in your mind, your knowledge, and your experiences, the richer you will be” – Garret Gunderson

“Your Happy when you help others become Happy” – Dali Lama

“Life isn’t about Happiness, it’s about knowing that at the end of the day you made one person breathe easier” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” – Robert Fulghum

“That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria! ” — Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… There is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.” — Winnie the Pooh

“The truth is, creativity isn’t about wild talent as much as it’s about productivity. To find a few ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don’t. It’s a numbers game.” – Robert Sutton

“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.” ~Marcus Aurelius

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” – Dalai Lama

“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness.” ~Seneca

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain - “Ships in harbor are safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

“Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.” ~Dalai Lama

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace." –Buddha

*Be Content

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

If you realize that you have enough,you are truly rich.

When there is no desire,all things are at peace.

Do Your Work, & Step Back

Fill your bowl to the brimand it will spill.Keep sharpening your knifeand it will blunt.Chase after money and securityand your heart will never unclench.Care about people’s approvaland you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.The only path to serenity.

Let Go of Success & the Need for Approval

Success is as dangerous as failure.Hope is as hollow as fear.

What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?Whether you go up the ladder or down it,you position is shaky.When you stand with your two feet on the ground,you will always keep your balance.

The Master does his joband then stops.He understands that the universeis forever out of control,and that trying to dominate eventsgoes against the current of the Tao.Because he believes in himself,he doesn’t try to convince others.Because he is content with himself,he doesn’t need others’ approval.Because he accepts himself,the whole world accepts him.

Stop Planning

Other people have a purpose;I alone don’t know.I drift like a wave on the ocean,I blow as aimless as the wind.

Because he has no goal in mind,everything he does succeeds.

Relinquish Control

The Master allows things to happen.She shapes events as they come.She steps out of the wayand lets the Tao speak for itself.

The Master sees things as they are,without trying to control them.She lets them go their own way,and resides at the center of the circle.

Master Non-Action

The gentlest thing in the worldovercomes the hardest thing in the world.That which has no substanceenters where there is no space.This shows the value of non-action.

Teaching without words,performing without actions:that is the Master’s way.

The Master allows things to happen.She shapes events as they come.She steps out of the wayand lets the Tao speak for itself.

*TAO*

And will you succeed?Yes you will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)~Dr. Seuss

"That’s the real problem with the world; too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be twelve years old again." - Walt Disney

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do." - Andrew Carnegie

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a master-piece.  You cannot be improved.  You only have to come to it, to know it, to realize it.  -  Osho

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

I have found the paradox that if I Love until it hurts, then there is no hurt but only more Love

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.  ~Mother Teresa

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." ~Buddha

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, it’s own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.” – Malcolm X

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. ~Winston Churchill

“Excellence, then, is not a single act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”-  Steve Jobs

"You're not in a process of discovery if you're not more than a little lost." -Erik Ehn

“Blessed is he that has found his work! Let him ask no other blessedness.”—Carlye

“The deepest vocational question is not “What ought I to do with my life?” It is the more elemental and demanding ‘Who am I? What is my nature?’” -Parker J. Palmer

CZ = WZ Comfort Zone = Wealth Zone - “If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.” – John Maxwell

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Brian Littrell

“Never, never, never, never give up.” “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”– Winston Churchill

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” – Walt Disney

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” – Buddha

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

“God helps those who help themselves.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” – Aristotle

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – Buddha

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.” – Bruce Lee

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb

“Fall seven times, Stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. “ – Thomas A. Edison

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.” – Albert Einstein

“Know thyself.” – Plato

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” – Confucius

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” – Bruce Lee

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” – Bruce Lee

“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

“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.” – Confucius

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” – Confucius

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato

“People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.” – Romana L. Anderson

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammed Ali

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein

“Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. “ – Benjamin Franklin

“Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.” – T.S. Elliot

“Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.” – Japanese Proverb

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast, or a god.” ~ Francis Bacon

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” ~ Jack Kerouac

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this. ~Thoreau

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. ~ Picasso

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." — Wayne Dyer

“I don’t want to be saved, I want to be spent.” ~ Frtiz Perls, founder of Gestalt therapy

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." — Benjamin Franklin

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. He who looks outside, dreams. He who looks inside, awakens. - Carl Jung

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. ~ Nelson Mandela

“Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.” ~ T. Harv Eker

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” - Frederick Buechner

“If you are here unfaithfully with us, you’re causing terrible damage.” - Rumi

“Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.” -- Andrew Schneider

"By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways...our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself...'Are there things I'd like to change?'" ~Mac Anderson

"The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life." — Ted Andrews

“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” ~ Jim Horning

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.” ~ Buddha

"If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything" -Thich Nhat Hanh

“You see things and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were and I say ‘Why not?’” ~ George Bernard Shaw

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What can anyone give you that is greater than this precious little instant known as ‘NOW’?

Jesus’ wisdom from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas captures this brilliantly: “If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don’t bring forth what is inside you, what you don’t bring forth will destroy you.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” - Helen Keller

“I don’t want to be saved, I want to be spent.” – Fritz Perls

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” -William James

"We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.  They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms...to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Passage from Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

"When we take one step toward God, he takes seven steps toward us." ~ Hindu Proverb- - -No matter which side of the bed we get out of, we can always take that one important step. Blessings to you and your steps today

"...By not wanting, there is calm,and the world will straighten itself.When there is silence,one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself..."~ from v. 37,  the Tao Te Ching (81 verses) written by Lao-tzu in ancient China, 500 BC.

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” ~ Calvin Coolidge

I live in a world full of wonders: today I will notice and appreciate its amazing beauty and order. ~ Karen Casey

"There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed." “Live simply so that others may simply live.” -- Mohandas Gandhi

“If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.” - The Dalai Lama

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

WHO YOU REALLY ARE IS EXACTLY WHO YOU SHOULD BE!!!

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not. - Earl Nightingale

Luke: I can't believe it. Yoda: That is why you fail." – Star Wars

"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is." -- Hermann Hesse

"Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do." -- William Ellery Channing

There is vitality, a life force, an energy, A quickening, that is translated through youinto action…. If you block it, if will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. - Martha Graham

“When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.” ~ James Joyce

"The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position." ~Leo Buscaglia~

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength." ~Ralph W. Sockman

We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. We can do this through losing as well as through winning, by having and by not having, by succeeding or by failing. All we need to do is to show up openhearted for class.~~Rachel Remen From her book: Kitchen Table Wisdom

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault

"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams” ~ Willie Wonka

When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears. - Anthony Robbins

“There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” ~ Nelson Mandela

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." -Wayne Dyer

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur." - Leo Tolstoy

"Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it."

"Don't waste your life for that which is going to be taken away. Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside. And with trust, something immense opens up. Then this life is no longer ordinary life, it becomes full of God, overflowing. When the heart is innocent and the walls have disappeared, you are bridged with infinity. And you are not deceived; there is nothing that can be taken away from you. That which can be taken away from you is not worth keeping, and that which cannot be taken away from you... why should one be afraid of its being taken away? It cannot be taken away, there is no possibility. You cannot lose your real treasure."

--Osho

Learn to pause…or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. - Doug Kin

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile - Albert Einstein

What happens when you believe something with all your heart? Belief fuels enthusiasm, and determined enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and uplifts our spirits. ~ Mac Anderson

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope. - Tom Head

What if you slept?And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower?And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Perfect love is to feeling what perfect white is to color. Many think that white is the absence of color. It is not. It is the inclusion of all color. White is every other color that exists, combined.

So, too, is love not the absence of an emotion (hatred, anger, lust, jealousy, covetousness), but the summation of all feeling. It is... the sum total. The aggregate amount. The everything." ~ Neale Donald Walsch quotes from Conversations with God

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything."- Jason Mraz

"The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the word, we will use it in a different way. Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you

believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have." - David Deida

"Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion."- Paulo Coelho

"Your heart has wisdom that your mind cannot comprehend. Today, surrender to the wisdom of your heart. Let go the need to be right, to control, to be in charge. Let your heart lead, soften your grip and see the miracle of the present moment. You are ALIVE! This is a great gift. Your dreams materialize when you follow the path of your heart. Go there." --Mastin Kipp

"Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage – in every thought and deed." --Russel M. Nelson

“Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.” ~John De Paola

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." - Flora Whittemore

‘Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.’ ~Shunryu Suzuki

‘Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ ~Samuel Beckett

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." - John Ruskin

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." - Maya Angelou

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."- Bruce Lee

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced." - Swami Vivekananda

"Breathe in the day. How are you feeling? Take note that the way you feel right now is because of a thought you're thinking either consciously or unconsciously. Know that you can create your day any way you see fit. Begin by setting your intention for the day and then CHOOSE to wrap

your thoughts around that intention. Your body is the SHIP and you are the captain. Where are you heading today?" - Mastin Kipp

Sometimes life is like reading a book.

Days, weeks, even years just repeat themselves ... until you turn the page.

Letting go isn't giving up.It's understanding that the best is yet to come. ~ Notes from the Universe

Just act normal.

If you let just anyone know about your awareness of the legions in the unseen doing your biding, or the population shifts now being sparked by your very words, or the circumstances and events presently being crafted by your thoughts, you just might create the illusion that you're from a not-so-distant parallel star system, possessing mysterious powers, favored by fate, here to save the world.

And, man-oh-man, you do not want that to happen.

Just act normal - The Universe

“The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual – as we think so will we act.” ~ Martha Graham

Every movement and non-movement we make is a form of communication.

How do you communicate fear, withdrawal, avoidance, shutting down, disagreeing, and an uncaring attitude?

If you aren’t sure, others can probably tell you. Begin to pay attention to what your eyes and arms and facial expressions communicate. Our body language speaks louder than our words.

“An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self-being; if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.” ~ Karl Jaspers

"Observe intently the birds of heaven, because they do not sow seed or reap or gather into storehouses; still your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they are?" - Matthew 6:26

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. ~George Bernard Shaw

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~Albert Einstein

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. ~José Marti, letter, 1890

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Our relationship will always be happy if we keep on expanding. Touch every heart, bow your head, bless everybody and you shall be blessed - Yogi Bhajan

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. - Joseph Campbell

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ~~Marcus Aurelius~~

"In prayer you communicate with God, in meditation God communicates with you." –Inner space

"Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day."

"Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence."

"Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It make us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside To the source of peace and inspiration When we are faced with problems and challenges." --Deepak Chopra

"As soon as you know how to trust yourself, you know how to live." ` Goethe

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them."- The Dalai Lama

Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow because of what you have done today?- William Arthur Ward

"The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony." --Mary Baker Eddy

“Asking for love is one of the most difficult things for anyone to risk, and by risking it first in your heart, you open a door that will never close again.” ~ Deepak Chopra

“Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurance. In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of them all is love.” - The Bible

"I bring you the gift of these four words:  I believe in you" -   Blaise Pascal

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. ~~George Santayana~~

Sometimes the best way to love someone, and the most help you can give, is to leave them alone or empower them to help themselves. Life is a smorgasbord, an you can give them a big helping of themselves. - Neale Donald Walsch

FAITH..... When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught how to fly. - Patrick Overton

"We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams."

"Our destiny sometimes is not found in faraway places or in grand adventures but merely a place within the depths of our soul."

"The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them..." - Gypsy proverbs

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.” - Bill Cosby

The first stage of worship is Silence ~ Mohammad

It is not your job to transform the world for others—but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack. ~ Abraham

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." - Sally Field

“The entire universe is but one vast symbol of God." — Thomas Carlysle

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." - John Muir

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”~Albert Einstein

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”- Chinese proverb

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” - Ben Franklin

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” - Paul Boese

"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along." - Lisa Alther

'If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.' - Goethe

My actions are my only true belongings:I cannot escape their consequences.My actions are the ground on which I stand. – Buddha

"I have no desire to conquer the World. Everyone who has ever tried has failed miserably. I am here to improve the World and share my love. To this end I am passionately committed and in return the World will grant me its greatest treasures." - Comedian Danny Siegel

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities." -- Dr. Seuss

“Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” – Buddha

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

You've got this amazing creature- yourself- that can breathe, dance, and cry. And you have a certain amount of moments (maybe a few million moments-but moments they are) and you have this chance to do absolutely anything- to reach out to another vulnerable & true. To dance on the roof of euphoria and pray beside the ocean to let go. We have the chance every moment to Be Alive and give to this world who needs each one of us so badly.~ ~Sabrina Harrison~~

"Don't take anything personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves." - Don Miguel Ruiz

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world." - Eckhart Tolle

"Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival." - Osho, was an Indian mystic and teacher.

"The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I've been driven all my life by a spirit of adventure and a criminal level of optimism. I believed in my dreams because they were my only option. The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling. You have to honor the gift God has given you. The people who get the call are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid." - Quincy Jones

"At this moment, life is pouring through you. It is a pure life stream of light and love. When it touches your mind and body it changes color; this mixture is your personality. To become a more transparent vehicle for spiritual force is our work. As the blocks are removed, there is a greater integration to the soul. Love is akin to spiritual fire. It purifies the mind and body. If one concentrated on love alone, man would become a transmuted being, thus moving in rhythm with the spiritual plan and the hold light of God would flow through man like a river.

Mantra: I breath the breath of God, which is love. I live in God, who is love." - Herman Rednick

"The Bridge through Identity with the Christ

When you hold the image of the Christ within, you are making a contact with the Christ vibration. When you have love in the heart, you open yourself to the light and compassion of a group of holy beings who are working with the Christ. This is the shortest path to reach illumination. When you see His image in your heart and mind and feel Him during the day, your image becomes a living thoughtform, vibrating with the spiritual fire of the Christ. Your identity with the Christ through love is your bridge to spiritual reality.

Mantra: Through love I become the Christ and I build a bridge to the spiritual worlds."- Herman Rednick

"We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them."- Charles C. West

“It’s easier to denature plutonium, than denature the evil nature of man” – Albert Einstein

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." - Deepak Chopra

“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” ~ Lao Tzu

* "In fact it is the simplest things that are the most tricky to do well. To read, for example. To be able to read exactly what is written without omitting anything that is written and at the same time without adding anything of one's own. To be able to capture the exact context of the words one is reading. To be able to read! “- Jean-Louis Barrault

Criticism:

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. ~ Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~ David Brinkley

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world. ~ Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

To escape criticism — do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. ~ Elbert Hubbard

It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper. ~ Errol Flynn

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now. ~ Fred Allen

Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind. ~ Hamilton Mabie

Before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away. And you have their shoes. ~ JK Lambert

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. ~ Jean Baudrillard

There is no defense against criticism except obscurity. ~ Joseph Addison

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it. ~ Noel Coward

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art,Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.~ Phyllis McGinley

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ~ Samuel Johnson

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks. ~Sir Francis Bacon

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If you just look at all that already exists in your life, all that you already have: unlimited air to breathe, ample lighting to see, music to hear, books to read, stars to dream by, trees to gaze at, floors to dance on, friends to cavort with, enemies to befriend, strangers to meet, woods to walk through, beaches to comb, rocks to scale, rains to cleanse you, rivers to float you, animals to comfort you, you do have to admit, there's more of it than you could ever, ever, ever spend.~~(But try anyway.)~`Mike Dooley

Think that it's fun, that you're guided,and that all is well.Think that there's time, that life is easy,and that the best is yet to come.Think that the reasons that elude youwill one day catch up,that the lessons that have stumped youwill one day bring joy,and that the sorrows that have crippled youwill soon give you wings.Think that you're important, that you cannot fail,and that happiness always returns.And think that you're beautiful.

~~Mike Dooley~~

“While I was writing (Doing Anything) I traveled a long road. Now I can finish this paragraph (MOMENT) in the FULL AWARENESS that I have RISKED ENOUGH and GIVEN THE BEST OF MYSELF.” - - -

Join those who have never said: “it’s finished, I have to stop here”. Because just as winter is followed by spring, nothing comes to an end: after reaching your objective, you have to start again, always using all that you have learnt on the way.

Join those who sing, tell stories, enjoy life and have happiness in their eyes. Because happiness is contagious and always manages to keep people from being paralyzed by depression, loneliness and troubles.

And tell your story, even if it’s only for your family to read. – Paulo Coelho

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of love. This dance of light, this sacred blessing, this divine love beckons us to a world beyond, that only lovers can see . . .~ RUMI

You are the reason the sun came up today. Believe it. ~~Mike Dooley~~

"For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

"Every now and then,when the world sits just right,a gentle breath of heavenfills my soul with delight..."~Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath of Heaven

Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good. -- Lucia Capacchione

If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace, freedom and liberty. Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams ~~ Michael Teal~~

You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you. –Buddha

“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house.Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor…Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes,kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.” - Mother Theresa

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers." –Seneca

“Desire is thinking of! Living is thinking from! Don't go through life desiring. Live your desire. Think it's already fulfilled.” - Neville Goddard

"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 *Many of the crises in our lives are divinely scheduled to get us to head in another direction

A MEDITATION PRAYER - by Barbara Rasp

At this moment, everything within me resists the silence.I am willing to break through this resistance and open my heart to receive your Divine Wisdom.I surrender all that I believe myself to be so that I may know who I truly am.As I flow peacefully on the river of Light,I am filled with your boundless love and compassion that I must express.I honor each moment in the flow and in Your Presence.I listen as your gentle Voice guides me along my way.I give thanks for your Grace, which constantly revives me.In this moment, I am at peace with my soul.

And so it is,Amen

If you fully awaken, you will not know yourself. Understand this, and you will understand all. ~~Leonard Jacobson~~

Each one of us has to find his peace from within. And peace, to be real, must be unaffected by outside circumstances. ~ Gandhi

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 desires must come to you." - Mahatma Gandhi

The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It's not testing you. It's benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrator. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive...e expectation. It is excited anticipation. ~ Abraham Hicks

"You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." ~Brian Tracy

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." - Joseph Campbell

“Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.” -- Gregory J.P Godek --

“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”--Barbara De Angelis--

“Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous” --Yehudi

Menuhin--

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” --Albert Camus--

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” --Marcus Aurelius--

“The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.” --Peace Pilgrim--

“And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods.... Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.” --William Shakespeare--

“Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven” --Henri Frederic Amiel--

“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the nightBecome the touches of Sweet Harmony" -- William Shakespeare-

That's what joy is. That's what appreciation is. That's what love is. It's your resonating with who you really are. - Abraham-Hicks –

"Our personas convince us that there is nothing that we don't know about ourselves --that we are in fact the person we see in the mirror and believe ourselves to be.

But the issue with this is that once we have brought into the story of 'this is who I am,' we shut the door on any other possibility and deny ourselves access to all of who we can be.

We lose our ability to choose, because we can't do anything outside the confines of the character we're playing.

The predictable persona we've constructed is now in control. We become blind to the immense possibilities for our life."

Debbie Ford The Shadow Effect 

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one characteristic we must possess if we are to face the future as finishers.

All this worldly wisdom was once the heresy of some wise man.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.Be not simply good – be good for something.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. ---

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher (and I must add, his book on Civil Disobedience (1849) was one of the major influences in my life )

‘Enjoy your memories,’ says the old man. ‘But don’t forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavor in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the time, you’ll find yourself with no present to remember.’ - A wise old man in Madrid

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.Explore. Dream. Discover -- MARK TWAIN

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." -- Rumi --

"This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful." - Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice

“We may not all live holy lives, but we live in a world alive with holy moments.” ~ Kent Nerburn

"Holding on to anything is like holding on to your BREATH. You will SUFFOCATE. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. LET GO & it will be YOURS forever." ~ Deepak Chopra

The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something for more than a few minutes. When Moses did, God spoke. The trick is to pay attention to what is going on around you long enough to behold the miracle without falling asleep. There is another world, right here within this one, whenever we pay attention. ~~Lawrence Kushner

To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. ~~William Blake

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the World are the ones who do" ~Jack Kerouac

“Be so good they can’t ignore you. Forget all the frustration, the tricks, and the worry, Just focus on becoming good, Really damn good, Outstanding, Unlike anyone who has come before you! – Steve Martin

“Your life is your message to the World. Make it inspiring” ~Lorrin L. Lee

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own ¤ sunshine" ~A. D'Angel

"Don't let the voice of other people's opinion drown your inner voice" ~Steve Jobs

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." -Napoleon Hill

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unr…est that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”- Martha Graham

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do ~ Rumi

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. - Eleanor Powell

“The roses bloom so beautifully because they are not trying to become lotuses. And the lotuses bloom so beautifully because they have not heard the legends about other flowers. Everything in nature goes so beautifully in accord, because nobody is trying to compete with anybody, nobody is trying to become anybody else. Everything is the way it is. Just see the point! Just be yourself and remember you cannot be anything else, whatsoever you do. All effort is futile. You have to be just yourself.” ~Osho

"Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind." – Buddha

“A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.” -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one hasbetter abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to takea calculated risk—and to act.” - Maxwell Maltz

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear" – Martin Luther King

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.--from "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran

Work like you do not need the money, Love like you have never been hurt, Dance like nobody is watching, Sing like nobody is listening, Live like it is Heaven on Earth' ~Elizabeth Anne Shaw

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain."- Joseph Campbell

Finish each day & be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it; tomorrow is a new day. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You, a person with a vision, are like a pebble in a stream, moving ever outward to infinity, impacting all who come into contact with the ripple." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us--and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. ~ Thomas Merton, Thoughts on Solitude

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."(-- Goethe)

“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”-Winnie the Pooh

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~~Kahlil Gibran

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..." — Dr. Seuss

~ I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. ~~ Marilyn Monroe~

"When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays..."-- Pablo Picasso—

‘Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.’ ~Albert Camus

“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Linda Holmes, for NPR:

It’s sad, but it’s also … great, really. Imagine if you’d seen everything good, or if you knew about everything good. Imagine if you really got to all the recordings and books and movies you’re “supposed to see.” Imagine you got through everybody’s list, until everything you hadn’t read didn’t really need reading. That would imply that all the cultural value the world has managed to produce since a glob of primordial ooze first picked up a violin is so tiny and insignificant that a single human being can gobble all of it in one lifetime. That would make us failures, I think.

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it. ~~ Indian Proverb~

"It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how... and still be happy,[&] be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss". ! (H. Miller-American Writer (1891-1980)

We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests ... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure ... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth! Masters of reality still meet us in dreams to tell us that we’ve never lost the shield we need against dragons, that blue-fire voltage arcs through us now to change our world as we wish. Intuition whispers true: We’re not dust, we’re magic!~~ Richard Bach

"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." -- WALT WHITMAN

Live like you are extraordinary.Love like you admire someone's most painful burden.Breathe like the air is scented with lavender and fire.See like the droplets of rain are each exquisite.Laugh like the events of existence are to be cherished.Imagine like there is magic in you fingertips.Give freedom to your instincts, to your spirit, to your longing.

~~E.M. Crane

Today I Celebrate…My Human-ness!

Sometimes as I walk on my spiritual path I get so entrenched and determined to be in the Flow that I neglect the feeling and living of my physical self. This is when spirituality becomes work. It is okay to say, “I am scared today,” “I hurt today.” In this awareness we hold our spiritual-ness. Tell the beauty within you that you are loved and this love includes your real feelings today! ~~Mercedes Warrick

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can. ~~Dalai Lama XIV

2 Samuel 23 The Last Song Of David

And it shall be as the light of the morning when the sun riseth even a morning without clouds as the tender grass springeth out of the earth by clear shining after rain.......