There are only two ways to

live your life. One is as

though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though
everything is a miracle.

--Albert Einstein
 Fear is the cheapest
room in the house.
I would like to see you living
in
better conditions.

–Hafiz
Three things in human life
are important.
The first is to be kind.
The second is to be kind.
And the third is to be kind.

--Henry James
 "In nature there is a quieting human
cleverness. There's listening. And there's
emulating what you hear. But there has to be
this fourth part. It is the part in which we
say thank you. It is the part in which we
remember to be mannerly towards the rest of
the natural world, to say thank you for the
ideas that they gifted us with."
--Janine Benyus
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

 Take the world
as it is,
not as it ought
to be.

-German Proverb-
The vision must be followed
by the venture.
It is not enough to stare
up the steps -- we must
step up the stairs.

Vance Havner
There are no strangers
here; Only friends you
haven't yet met.
William Butler Yeats
 I am my own
experiment.
I am my own
work of art.
-Madonna Ciccone-
The most important work
you and I
will ever do
will be
within the walls
of our own homes.

-Harold B. Lee-
Every single one of us can do things
that no one else can do — can love
things that no one else can love.
We are like violins.
We can be used for doorstops,
or we can make music.
You know what to do.

~Barbara Sher~
 Don’t try to figure out what
other people want to hear from
you; figure out what you have
to say. It’s the one and only
thing you have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver
Do not take sides; if you take sides,
you are trying to eliminate half of
reality, which is impossible.
If we look deeply at the rose,
we see the garbage;
if we look deeply at the garbage,
we see the rose.
Thich Nhat Hanh
 They deem me mad
because I will not
sell my days for gold;
and I deem them mad
because they think
my days have a price.

Khalil Gibran
 As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop,
the bus conductor leaned from the platform and
called out, “Six only!” The bus stopped. He
counted out six passengers, rang the bell, and then,
as the bus moved off, called to those left behind:
“So sorry, plenty of room in my heart — but the
bus is full.” He left behind a row of smiling faces.
It’s not what you do; it’s the way that you do it.
-Francis Gay-
There is a living to give instead of
to get. As you concentrate on the
giving, you discover that just as you
cannot receive without giving, so
neither can you give without
receiving -- even the most wonderful
things like health and happiness
and inner peace.

~Peace Pilgrim~
 Help others
achieve their dreams
and you will
achieve yours.
Les Brown
 A rock pile
ceases to be a rock pile
the moment
a single man
contemplates it
as an image of a
cathedral.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
 You must give some time
to your fellow men.
Even if it's a little thing,
do something for others,
something for which you
get no pay but the
privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer
 There is really nothing you must be.
And there is nothing you must do.
There is really nothing you must have.
And there is nothing you must know.
There is really nothing you must become.
However it helps to understand
that fire burns, and when it rains
the earth gets wet.

~Japanese Zen Scroll~

 If someone listens,
or stretches out a hand,
or whispers a kind word
of encouragement,
or attempts to understand
a lonely person,
EXTRAORDINARY
things begin to happen.

-Loretta Girzatlis-
When you are inspired by some great
purpose, some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bounds.

Dormant forces, faculties and talents

become alive, and you discover
yourself to be a greater person by far
than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Pantanjali
 It is not because
things are difficult
that we do not DARE.
It is because
we do not DARE
that things are difficult.

Seneca
 One's first step in wisdom
is to QUESTION everything –
and one's last is
to COME TO TERMS with
everything.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is a spark of good
in everybody,
no matter how deeply
it may be buried,
it is there.
It's waiting to govern
your life gloriously.

Peace Pilgrim
Give, give, give. What is the
point of having experience,
knowledge or talent
if I don't give it away?
Of having stories
if I don't tell them to others?
Of having wealth
if I don't share it?

Isabel Allende
We can't change the
cards we're dealt,
just how
to PLAY the hand.

Randy Pausch
 Every child
is an artist.
The problem is
how to remain
an artist
once we grow up.

Picasso
 Do not wait
for extraordinary
circumstances
to do good action;
try to use
ordinary situations.

Jean Paul Richter

 Everything
has beauty,
but not everyone
sees it.

Confucius
 Let us not look
back in anger, nor
forward in fear,
but around in
awareness.

James Thurber
 In this world it is
not what we TAKE UP,
but what we GIVE UP,
that makes us rich.

=Henry Ward Beecher=

We cannot hold a torch
to light another's path
WITHOUT
brightening our own.

--Ben Sweetland--
 What we SEE
depends mainly on
what we LOOK for.

John Lubbock
 Feeling gratitude
and not expressing it
is like
wrapping a gift
and not giving it.
Every storm must begin with
a single drop of rain. And so
it is with every worthwhile
movement -- it begins with
an idea that is too simple to
be taken seriously, and then
comes the storm.

-Marco Caceres-
Even after all this time,
the sun never says to the
earth, "You owe Me."
Look what happens
with a love like that.
It lights the Whole Sky.

Hafiz
 You gotta
dance like nobody's watching,
dream like you’ll live forever,
live like you'LL die tomorrow
and LOVE
like it's never going to hurt.

--Meme Grifters
You cannot
travel the path
until you have
BECOME
the path.

~Buddha
Happiness is when

what you think,

what you say,

and

what you do

are in harmony.

GANDHI
As you simplify your life,
the law of the universe
will be simpler.

--Henry David Thoreau

The fundamental delusion
of humanity
is to suppose that
I am here
and
you are OUT there.

- Yasutani Roshi
 The important thing is this:
To be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are
for what we could become.

Charles Du Bois
Read man:
he is the living poem.

Vivekananda
 Kindness in words creates
confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates
love.

--Lao Tzu--
Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything,

That's how the light gets in.

~Leonard Cohen
Find the seed
at the bottom of
your heart
and bring forth a
flower

Shigenori Kameoka
Take the first step in
faith. You don't have to see
the whole staircase, just
take the first step.

--Martin Luther King Jr.

 Always the
beautiful answer
who asks a more
beautiful question.

e. e. Cummings
 A hero is not
a special kind of person;
every person is
a special kind of hero
when he or she is
without fear.

-Satish Kumar
 Three keys to
more abundant living:
caring about others,
daring for others,
sharing with others.
~William A. Ward~
In silence there is
eloquence. Stop weaving
and watch how the
pattern improves.

–Rumi
He who would
travel happily
must travel light.

- Antoine D’Exupery
Aerodynamically a bumblebee
shouldn't be able to fly, but
the bumblebee doesn't know
that so it goes on flying
anyway. --Mary Kay Ash
 Sometimes letting go
is an act
of FAR greater power
than defending or hanging on.

-Eckhart Tolle
BE. Don't try to become.
Within these two words,
BE and BECOMING,
your whole life is
contained.
Being is enlightenment,
becoming is ignorance.
-Osho-
Freedom from the desire for an
answer is essential to the
understanding of a problem.

--J. Krishnamurti
For one human being to love
another; that is perhaps the
most difficult of all our tasks,
the ultimate, the last test and
proof, the work for which all
other work is but preparation.

~Rainer Maria Rilke~