“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
- Carlos Castaneda
“The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
- Joseph Addison
“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.”
- Douglas Adams
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.”
- Mother Teresa
“This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.”
- Henry David Thoreau
Painting by Linda Tillman is entitled “Molten Universe”. For more of her work, please go to http://artistlindatillman.blogspot.com
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
~ Frank Crane
“The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds. Judgment is the mind's primary tool of separation.”
- Diane Berke
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”
- Phillips Brooks
“Nowhere can [we] find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in [our] own soul.”
- Marcus Aurelius
“Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation.”
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Artwork by Suze Sward. For more of her work, please go to http://suzabelles.blogspot.com/
“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”
- Alan Alda
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.”
~ Doug Larson
“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.”
~ Robert Brault
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
Painting entitled Dream Sail Boathouse #7 by Jefree Stewart. For more of his work, please visit http://jeffreestewartpaintings.com
“Language... has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.”
- Paul Tillich from The Eternal Now
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
- John Andrew Holmes
“Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
- Scott Adams
