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The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. 

John Bingham (1815-1900), US Republican Congressman

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.

Viktor Frankl, M.D., Ph.D. (1905-1997), Austrian Neurologist and Psychiatrist; a Holocaust Survivor; Author of Man's Search for Meaning

One man cannot change the world but one man can deliver the messages which can change the world.

The Emoto Peace Project team, aiming at distributing to children around the world 650 million free copies of Dr Masaru Emotos book Messages From The Water proving by photographs of the water crystals that human thoughts and emotions influence water, the basis of all life

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal!

Inscription on a button

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

From Asja Binno's facebook page

Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio

There is never a crisis without a blessing.

Global1 Newsletter

In my lifetime, I have dealt with many people who have said:  “Ron you CAN’T do that,” but I believe that with God ALL things are possible.  

When the doctors said: “You can’t breathe without a ventilator tube.”   I did.

Schools told me I could never go to college by typing with a stick in my teeth. I did. “You can never paint with a brush in your mouth.”   I did.  “You will never get a Masters degree."  I did.

“You can’t build a camp for disabled kids, you don’t have any money.”  We did.

“You can’t write a book.”  They were right… I wrote TWO of them!

“No one will marry you in that chair.”  She did! 

Doctors said, “You will never have a baby.”     We did.

Ron Heagy Jr., Athlete who became quadruplegic, Author and Motivational Speaker

Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.

Nick Vujicic, Inspirational Speaker, born without limbs

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), British Scholar and Novelist   

God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.

Voltaire (1694-1778), French Philosopher, Author 

Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow!"

The Talmud, Central text of mainstream Judaism

Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

St. Bernard ((1090 – 1153), French Abbot

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself. 

Guy Finley, Personal Growth and Development Leader

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible, Jn.8:32

In essence, everyone is perfect but our choices can rob us of our perfection.

Catherine Wilkins, Founder/Director of Fractology, Author, Healer

Live in such a way that those who know you but don't know God will come to know God because they know you.

Unknown

Stay focussed on your Divine Self. Grow faith by faith. That is Power.

Rishaan Raphael, Australian Spiritual Healer

We must give not only what we have, but who we are.

Dr. Diane Dike, American with two doctorates, Author and Speaker, living in faith in spite of suffering a rare untreatable disease -  http://inspirationmanifestation.com/381/gracie-diane-dike-ph-d/

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US President

Leadership is done from in front. Never ask others to do what you, if challenged, would not be willing to do yourself.

Xenophon (ca. 430 - 354 BC), Ancient Greek Historian, Soldier

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the success of those under him. 

Rev. W.A. Nance

Mistakes are there to inspire us and encourage us to keep moving and keep feeding our Soul and our mind - to keep living!

Suzann Rye, Speaker, Author, Voice and Performance Traine

It’s as simple as shifting attitude from 'shit happens' to 'shift happens'. There's nothing left to resist. Honour duality to create Unity.

Greendolphin

It is okay to want to make lots of plans, but it is also okay to make lots of room for that which planning can never produce.

Neale Donald Walsch, Spiritual Author

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Presenter 

It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.

Horace Mann (1796 -1859), American Education Reformer  

Think to thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, a formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

Thomas S. Monson (1927 -), President of LDS Church, USA

Don’t count the days, make the days count.

Anonimous

Turn your face to the sun and the shadow falls behind you.

Maori proverb  

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

 Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, English Politician and Author

Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light, but making the dark conscious.

Carl Jung (1875 – 1961), Swiss Psychiatrist

I feel that tender consciousness touch is the best way to deal with any health challenge; for in that tenderness you are connected to the depths of your being and your inner wisdom.

Marc Lerner,  Founder of Life Skills Institute, Author of The Healthy Way To Be Sick  

Secrets brought into the light allow healing to begin.

Helen Smalley-Bower, MS, Holistic Theologian & Therapist

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

             Maya Angelou (1928- ),  American Poet

Our problems are only due to the belief that we have to fix something our own way, while The Creator Of All has allready given us all the Solutions. We only need to accept it.  I simply transmute all negative energies that come my way into the Light. I let God take my place.

Eric Unwin, Spiritual Healer, Co-founder of Whitewing Ministries

Use yesterday to inspire tomorrow, not to discourage it.

Neale Donald Walsch, Spiritual Author

Nothing is too great for who you really are... any more than the ocean fears the rain-swollen rivers that rush in to fill it.

Guy Finley, Personal Growth and Development Teacher, Author

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) Chinese Sage

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

Audrey Hepburn, (1929-1993), British Actress, Humanitarian

Gratitude in advance is the most powerful creative force in the universe.

Neale Donald Walsch, Spiritual Author

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

Cicero (106 BC-43 BC), Roman statesman, Philosopher, Orator

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was "thank you," that would suffice.

Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–c. 1328), German Theologian, Philosopher

O Lord that lends me life, lend me the heart replete with thankfullness!

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Cultivate a thankful spirit! It will be to thee a petrpetual feast.

J. R. Macduff (1818–1895), Scottish Author

Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. 

 Jesus Christ

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Presenter

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.   

Anonimous, Internet

When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.  

Anonimous, Internet

To grow spiritually we must check our own journey each day and make sure we are embracing the truths of the Spirit of the Universe.

When you choose Spirit leadership you make decisions you never dreamed possible... or possibly never dreamed.

It's one thing to live a busy life. It's another to stretch your Spirit as wide and deep as possible in each area of your life.

Achieving fulfillment in every area of life means ending secrets.

You achieve fulfillment when you choose to live in your Spirit.

Are You Ready to Become Your Best Self?

Helen Smalley-Bower, MS, Holistic Theologian & Therapist www.finetuneyou.com

If I could change the seas into ink

and make all the trees into pens

and use the whole earth as paper,

I still could not say enough about the magic of the divine.

Kabir (1398—1448), Indian Mystic Poet

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German Scientist

When there is nothing left but God that is when you find out that God is all you need.

Anonimous on the internet

 Problems are just opportunities in their work clothes.

Henry Kaiser (1882-1967), American Industrialist

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins... You cannot find what you have been struggling for, but you can create it. And the jump-start of creation is gratitude.

Neale Donald Walsch, Author of Conversations with God  

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.

Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Presenter

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change.

Martin Buber(1878 - 1965), Philosopher and Educator

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), US President

Find personal meaning in a crazy world.

Dr. Kent M. Keith, Speaker, Writer

Be Different and Make a Difference!

www.1000ventures.com

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

Swedish Proverb

They must find it difficult...  Those that have taken authority as the truth rather than truth as the authority.

from www.whitewingministries.com

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Marc Twain (1835-1910), Author

Good health is acquired by choosing healthy life practices and learning to trust your own voice.

It is (also) essential to find the “balance” in  your relationship and put it into practice every  day! 

Helen Smalley-Bower, MS, Holistic Theologian & Therapist www.finetuneyou.com

There is within each one of us the understanding of Truth.  It is part of our being. 

from www.whitewingministries.com

The Whole Truth, including Its Part that transcends human mind's grasp, but is within the reach of one's humble spirituality, is the ultimate Healer.

Tiyana Maksimovich-Binno, Holistic Natural Healer and Therapist

Your agenda for this day has been set in your soul. The only question now is whether you will listen to that.

Neale Donald Walsch, Spiritual Author

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.

Frank Tyger

If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.

Heraclitus (6th century BC), Greek Philosopher

Only when the pleasure of being by ourselves equals or exceeds that contentment which we feel in the company of others, are we capable of being unsheakably true to ourselves, as well as those with whom we gather.

Guy Finley, Personal Growth and Spiritual Leader, Author

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. 

David Starr Jordan (1861-1964), American Educator, Scientist, Peace Activist

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), American Jurist 

Sometimes we're forced in directions that we ought to have found ourselves.

Lionel  the Butler in the movie Maid in Manhattan

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open. 

Rabindranath Tagore(1861-1941), Indian Thihnker, Poet

Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900),  Irish Novelist, Dramatist, Critic

Love people and use things - not love things and use people.

Anonimous on the Internet

Living as love is a way of life that brings heaven on earth. 

Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, Founder and Spiritual Director

Agape International Spiritual Center 

Conduct yourself in this world as if you are here to stay forever; prepare for eternity as if you have to die tomorrow. 

Muhammad, Founder of Islam

With the spiritual womb, made active by the union of the masculine and feminine within, we give birth to the energies of our own transformation.

Marianne Williamson, Author, The Truest Heart

What love is, is unlimited, eternal and free. Therefore, that is what you are. That is nature of who You Are.

Neale Donald Walsch, Author, Conversations With God 3

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. 

Harold Taylor (1895-1919),  Architect  

He is able who thinks he is able.

Buddha

So you can walk on water? You are no better than a twig floating on a puddle. You can fly through the air? You are no better than this gnat buzzing around my head. Master your own heart then maybe you can be somebody.

Arabic Wisdom (from 500BC)

One of the true marks of a leader, a consummate professional, is to do the unthinkable.  To tackle the impossible.  To touch the untouchable. 

Naomi Rhode, Inspirational Speaker

Being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Presenter

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), American Jurist

When I was diagnosed with severe autism, my parents decided to see possibilities where others saw none, and it was this perspective that enabled my complete recovery.

Raun Kaufman, used to be autistic, with IQ 30, now Near Genius

All my becoming has needed me.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), German Poet, from the Poem Book of Hours

“I never lost who I was

I only left it asleep

Maybe I didn’t have a choice”                   

From the Movie As It Is In Heaven

There is a light which cannot ever be extinguished. It is inside of you. It is you. Let your light so shine upon the world that the world will know Who You Really Are.

Neale Donald Walsch, Spiritual Author

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have.

Howard Thurman (1900-1981),  American Theologian, Clergyman,  Activist

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

Guy Finley, Life Transformation Leader, Author  

Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Rumi (1207-1273), Persian Poet

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Joseph Campbel (1904-1987), American Mythology Profesor, Author

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but were he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King (1929-1968), American Human Rights Advocate

Harmlessness and mutuality always direct one into correct behavior.

Lester Levenson (1909-1993) American Physicist, Engineer 

Pick up that piece of bread from the floor, blow the dust off, kiss the bread and apologise to it for having let it fall down... not because you have no other bread, but out of respect for the Earth, the Wheat and the People who made and brought this bread to you.

Milutin Maksimovich (1905-1989), Yugoslav Engineer, Author, Atheist and my Father who brought me up in a deeply spiritual Serbian and Leo Tolstoy's tradition

In gratitude, Tiyana Maksimovich-Binno  

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Author Unknown

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner.

Max Lucado (1955- ), Minister and Author

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Alden Nowlan (1933-1983), Canadian Poet

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Writer and Humorist

Those who dwell among the mysteries and beauties of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Rachel Carson (1907-1964), American Marine Biologist, Nature Writer

Beauty is necessary for the human person. Without it we shrink. Beauty is an expression of the coherence of life. It is a mighty power.

Henryk Skolimowski, Philosopher, and Juanita Skolimowski,  Poet , Sculptor

The more beautiful the object, the more intensively does it exist.

Plotinus (ca. CE 204–270), Ancient Greek Philosopher, Founder of Neoplatonism

Beauty is an imperative for the enhancement of life. Sustainable life systems emanate beauty.

What is sustainable is climax and beauty. What is beautiful is the climax and sustainable.

The Universe is a sanctuary.

Vir Singh, Indian Scholar

God is not a singular Super Being, but the extraordinary process called Life. No path to God is more direct than any other path.

New Spirituality Principles  www.schoolofthenewspirituality.com

The universe is the externalization of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American Poet and Philosopher

Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American Poet and Humanist

Real  thinking is inspiration, not regorgitating the ideas of yesterday.

Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, Founder and Spiritual Director

Agape International Spiritual Center 

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Presenter

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900),  Irish Novelist, Dramatist, Critic

God is an Essence in which we all swim everyday.

Jenny Houston, IONS Member

Tell me and I forget. 

Teach me and I remember. 

Involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790), American Author, Scientist, Statesman

The experience alone can create deep healing.

Catherine Wilkins, Healer, Author, Founder of Fractology

Knows but doesn't know he knows... asleep, wake him up.

Knows he doesn't know... teach him, good man.

Doesn't know he doesn't know... a fool, avoid him.

Knows he knows... wise, follow him...

Anonimous

For knowledge add a little every day, for wisdom erase a little every day.

Lao Tzu (6th or 4th century BC), Chinese Philosopher

Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.

Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese Philospher, Educator

The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter. 

Warren Buffett (1930- ), American Businessman, Philanthropist

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are... part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Max Planck (1858-1947), German Physicist, Founder of Quantum Theory

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is not more a science than a heap of stones is a home.

Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912) French mathematician  

The serious debate today is no longer about mind and body, but about the body of experience and the body of medicine. 

David Kleinberg-Levin, PhD, Philosopher, Professor Emeritus

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US President  

One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself. 

Chief Dan George (1899-1981), Native Canadian Indian, Academy Award-Nominated Actor and Author.

We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman happens to the human. 

What happens to the outer world happens to the inner world.

If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished.

Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of the clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.

Thomas Berry (1914- ), Priest, Cultural Historian, Earth Scholar

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the Earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know - the Earth does not belong to man - man belongs to the Earth. This we know.

Chief Seattle (c. 1786-1866), Native American Leader

Let those around you live their own lives, but don't let them live yours. You have more greatness than you might think. 

Raun Kaufman, CEO of the Autism Treatment Center of America

A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Billy Graham (1918- ), Evangelical Christian

The essentials of happiness is something to love, something to do and something to hope for.

William Blake (175-1827), English Poet, Painter

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. 

Moliere (1622-1673 ), French Playwright and Actor 

Life is a decision. Your attitude, your outlook is a decision moment to moment.

Larry Crane, Teacher of the Release Technique  

Bless those who challenge us to grow, to stretch, to move beyond the knowable, to come back home to our elemental and essential nature. Bless those who challenge us for they remind us of doors we have closed and doors we have yet to open. 

 Navajo Saying 

To think is not your real nature. Your real nature is to be.The natural free state is the ultimate goal. That is to be without thinking.

The essence of your self is only awareness and consciousness. When the ego dominates it, your consciousness functions as the reasoning, thinking or sensing faculty. When you are totally released, you identify with your beingness only. You are intuitive with no thinking.

Lester Levenson (1909-1993), American Physicist, Engineer, Founder of The Release Technique

Where, in the past, I would have either be yelling or bent over in pain, I made the decision to release.... I said yes to the pain and sent my [painfully slammed] leg love and approval - within seconds the pain completely disappeared!

Jason Flora, in Release newsletter, July 2009

Don’t fear pressure for pressure is what turns rough stones into diamonds.

Author Unknown

You are like the tea bag . . . only in hot water do you realize how strong you are.

Inscription on the tea bag

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton, American Author

Hawaiian KaHuna Principles:

1. IKE - The world is what you think it is - "I am aware"

2. KALA - No limits - everything is one - "I am free"

3. MAKIA - Energy flows where attention goes - "I am focused"

4. MANAWA - Now is the moment of power - "I am here" 

5. ALOHA- To love is to be happy - "I am happy" 

6. MANA- All power comes from within - "I am confident" 

7. PONO - Effectiveness is the measure of truth - "I am positive" 

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. 

Arthur Ashe, American Tennis Player, Activist 

All real living is meeting. 

Martin Buber (1878 – 1965), German Philosopher and Educator

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), British author 

God has to be approached through an I-Thou relationship with people, animals, trees, even... a heap of stones.

Aubrey Hodes, Author

What makes you a unique human being is found in your relationship with life -- and not in the degree to which you struggle to get others to perceive you as being unique.

Guy Finley, Personal Growth and Spiritual Leader, Author

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering, 1876-1958, American Engineer and Inventor

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller (1880-1968), American Author, Activist and Lecturer, Born Deaf-blind  

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!

Dan Westfall, San Diego 

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off the main road; by trying the untried.

Frank Tyger

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.   

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet 

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.

Alan Keightley 

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.       

Mark Twain, on www.ravenswingstudio.com/docs/cats   

Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations.

Irving Townsend (1920-1981), American Record Producer, Author  

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Florence Scovel Shinn (1871-1940), American Author

Ask yourself: Are you a magnificent spirit being living a human experience, or are you a human reaching toward the spirit realms? In truth, you are both.  So why are you not living this way? You fell into three- dimensional life soup. While we may appear to be small humans, we are actually vast, multi-dimensional, multi-life beings.

Victoria Marihart, Author of Your Spiritual Freedom  

There is nothing that life can deliver to your door that is not effortlessly handled in the same moment you remember this truth: nothing has the right to enter or remain in your heart or mind without your consent.

Guy Finley, Personal Growth and Spiritual Leader, Author

A native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered: 'The one I feed.'

Native American Story

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. 

Buddha, The Enlightened One  

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British Statesman and Literary Figure

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

The difference between a flower and a weed is a judgement.

Barry Neil Kaufman (1942– ), Psychotherapist  

God's light shines through you when your light shines on another... You must believe in yourself as The Source of that light and that love... Your answer will determine more for you than it will for them. In this is The Great Secret.

Neale Donald Walch, Author ofConversations With God

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. 

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American Author

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength. 

Ralph Sockman (1889-1970), American Pastor, Speaker  

If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything, If you look at what you have in life, you have everything.

Anonymous, Internet

Why you cannot afford to wait another minute to fall madly in love with yourself? Because when you love yourself you Attract loving people to you and within a few months you will start to see amazing changes in your love life and your career.

Sandra Dawson, MA, Love Relationship Coach, Author

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English Poet and Playwright

The goodness in your life does not come to you from someone else. When you see this, you will be free. 

Neale Donald Walch, Author ofConversations With God

There is no such things as Right and Wrong. There is only What Works and What Does Not Work, depending on what it is that you seek to be, do or have. 

One of the Principles of the School of New Spirituality

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.  

George Washington Carver (1864-1943), American Educator, Scientist 

How to Have Fun Even When You’re Not Having Fun: Next time you’re not having fun – and not having fun not having fun – remind yourself that life is a comedy of situations and you’re just having an episode.

Even if you can’t recall a moment of fool-realization or haven’t committed a memorable random act of comedy doesn’t mean you aren’t qualified... to get your absurdification as a bona fide fool from the Swami... we’ll send you an attractive certificate -- including Swami’s Seal of Approval -- suitable for framing. You are pre-qualified. Anybody who would pay money for this certificate is already foolish. So you’ve earned it, you deserve it, so act now! 

Remember, any money spent on foolishness can’t be spent on anything serious, and as you already know seriousness is one of the major causes of truth decay on the planet.

Swami Beyondananda, Author, Humorist

Your whole life is a teaching. Everything that you think, say and do instructs another.

Neale Donald Walsch, Author ofThe New Revelations

Education worthy of the name is essentially the education of character.

Martin Buber (1878 – 1965), Philospher and Educator

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Marc Twain (1835-1910), American Author

Education is not a filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), Irish Poet and Dramatist

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), French Artist

Nobility is the effortless and fearless possession of the soul that realizes nothing in the universe can either increase or decrease its God-given estate.

Guy Finley, Personal Growth and Development Leader

There is no right or wrong, only alive and less alive.

Dr. Becky Coleman  

You cannot make someone love you, all you can do is be someone who can be loved.

Anonimous

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship.

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Khalil Gibran (1883-19331) Lebanese Poet

Life and mistakes are for learning. Next time you'll do better.

Milutin Maksimovich (1905-1989), Serbian Author & Engineer (Tiyana's Father)

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 overcome whilst trying to succeed.

Booker T Washington (1856-1915), American Educator, Orator, Author, Leader of the African-American Community; freed from slavery as a child.

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth - we are all crew.

Marshall McLuan (1911- 1980), Canadian Educator, Philosopher, Scholar 

All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.

Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German Philosopher

To Speak or NOT to Speak

If it is not  truthful and not helpful don't say it

If it is truthful and not helpful don't say it

If it is helpful and not  truthful don't say it

If it is both Truthful and Helpful... Wait for the right time 

Buddhist Quote

Broken truth is like drinking from a broken glass. It appears helpuf to some, but is painful to all.

Lliving the Whole Truth, including its Unknown portion, is much more than helpful - it brings the Spirit of Truly Healing to all concerned.

Tiyana Maksimovich-Binno, Natural Healer and Therapist

A moral, sensible and well-bred man will not affront me, and no other can.

Anonimous

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper (1731-1800), English poet

To go beyond understanding to wisdom requires awareness of the difference between doing things right (efficiency) and doing the right thing (effectiveness).

MISAHA website

There are two obstacles to vibrant health and longevity: ignorance and complacency.

World Health Organization

If we could see the miracle in a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Buddha

Don't Believe in Miracles, Depend On Them!

Max Stein, Webmaster

To live at all is miracle enough.

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968), English Writer, Artist, Poet, Illustrator.

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

I did not know what to say, my mouth

had no way

with names

my eyes were blind,

and something started in my soul,

fever or forgotten wings,

and I made my own way,

deciphering

that fire

and I wrote the first faint line,

faint, without substance,

pure nonsense,

pure wisdom

of someone who knows nothing,

and suddenly I saw

the heavens

unfastened

and open...

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean Writer and Politician, from the poem NGC 602 and Beyond

Complete health and awakening are really the same.

Tarthang Yulku, Tibetan Author

Health is the ideal balance between all major parts of our being - body, mind, and soul - in conjunction with our environment and all we encounter.

Ted Andrews, Author

True Healing is a joint venture of all concerned by a Natural or God given energy transformation.

Tiyana Maksimovich-Binno, Holistic Healer, Natural Therapist

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), Alsatian Philosopher Physician

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.

 Rumi (1207-1273), Persian Mystic Poet

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

Mother Teresa (1910-1997), Albanian-born Humanitarian and Missionary

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson (1907-1964), American Marine Biologist and Nature Writer  

When the universe speaks it is on purpose and we need to listen. It is always speaking to you, it never stops.

David Morehouse, Remote Viewer, Author

Wanting to punish others for the pain they "make" us feel is like tripping over our shoelaces and then jumping on our own toe to let the offending shoe know how displeased we are with it!

Guy Finley, Life Transformation Leader

...To know that we respect each other

not for what we have become,

but for becoming what we always were.

To display courage rather than to wish for it

To wear our souls rather than to bury them in a mantle of misery

To know kindred spirits rather than to hope for them

To feel the presence of something greater than ourselves rather than to pray for it...

Sara Becker

Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), Scottish Author and Reformer.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. 

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Political and Spiritual Indian Leader

Some people see things as they are and say why.  I dream things that never were and say why not? 

Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), US Senator

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.   

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944 ), French Author, Aviator 

When you know who you are;

when your mission is clear and

you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will;

no cold can touch your heart;

no deluge can dampen your purpose.

Chief Seattle

Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?

Mary Oliver (1935 -), Poet 

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), American Jurist

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. 

Chinese Proverb 

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

J.B. Priestly (1894-1984), English Author

Hold on to what is good,

Even if it's a handful of earth.

Hold on to what you believe,

Even if it's a tree that stands by itself.

Hold on to what you must do,

Even if it's a long way from here.

Hold on to your life,

Even if it's easier to let go.

Hold on to my hand,

Even if someday I'll be gone away from you.

A Pueblo Indian Prayer

In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.

Iroquois Confederacy Maxim

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus (1913-1960), French Author, Philosopher

Knowing the truth is fairly useless. Feeling it is profound. Living it makes all the difference.

David Deida, Author and Spiritual Teacher

Don't be "consistent" but be simply true.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), American Jurist

The right way to teach is the personal example springing spontaneously and naturally from the whole man.

Martin Buber (1878-1965), Austrian-Israeli Philosopher and Educator

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin (1903-1977), Cuban-French Author 

A Miracle is Energy In Formation. Anything you hold your attention on over time is energy in formation.

Sam Oliver, Author of The Path into Healing

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English Author and Critic

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.

George Moore (1852-1933), Irish author, poet, dramatist

Gratitude is wealth. Complaint is poverty.

Doris Day, American Actress

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Karl Barth (1886-1968), Swiss Reformed Theologian

A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), German Writer, Philosopher, Dramatist

For more than a decade, we have had to spend enormous amounts of energy simply opposing the latest 'bad' thing. But we have more than a duty to oppose. Together, we have a duty to aspire.

GetUp Team online

You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young, (1900-1969), American Singer

The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), American Satirist and Writer

If you push a rose to bloom you destroy its beauty. So is it true when it comes to the flowering of all things in our life, including people, plans, and personal objectives, no matter how noble.

When we will be present to ourselves, quietly watchful of the relationship that is always unfolding in the Presence moment, then we have no more need to prepare for what life will bring to us than a newly opened rose needs ready itself for the warmth of the sun that comes to release its fragrance.

Looking to any person, place, possession, or power to answer our longing to be whole and free . . . is like searching the back of our bedroom closet in the hope of finding the entrance to King Solomon's mine.

Guy Finley, Life Transformation Leader, Author

When I despair, I remember that all through history, the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and, for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it...always.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian Leader for Independence

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.  

Ayn Rand, Russian-born American Author

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809), Rights of Man, 1791

Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world – indeed, it’s the only things that ever has.

Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American Cultural Anthropologist

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. 

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.  

Richard Bach (1936- ), American Writer

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955); German-born U.S. theoretical physicist

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955); German-born U.S. theoretical physicist

Real compassion lies in our ability to remember that any angry, resentful person is usually just someone who can no longer bear the weary weight of his or her own carefully concealed despair.

Guy Finley, Life Transformation Leader  

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Ding Ling (1904-1986), Chinese Author 

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within.

Helen Keller, Blind/Deaf Author, Speaker

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.  

Margaret Storm Jameson(1891-1986), English Writer, Critic

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Jurist

It's not that it's difficult to let go. If your house is on fire, you don't ask yourself if you should get out of it immediately, do you? 

Guy Finley, Self-Transformation Teacher, Author (The Secret of Letting Go)

Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods. 

Socrates (c. 469 BC-399 BC), Ancient Greek Phiilosopher

Through encountering each other as truly human we can both place ourselves in the world and glimpse God. 

Paraphrasing Martin Buber on www.infed.org/thinkers/et-buber.htm

Blessed are the flexible... for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Beliefnet e-card

May the stars carry your sadness away,

May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,

May hope forever wipe away your tears,

And, above all, may silence make you strong. 

Chief Dan George (1899-1981), Canadian Native Indian

Good word is silver, silence is gold.

Your tongue is your horse.

Arabic Proverbs

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), US President

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Marc Twain, (1835-1910), American Author

It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.

Yogi Berra

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?

Sai Baba (1926-), South Indian Spiritual Leader  

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese Poet

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Jurist  

To open your inner nature and to feel something from the bottom of your heart, it is necessary to remain silent.

Shunryu Suzuki (1904-1971), Japanese Zen priest

To Speak or NOT to Speak

If it is not  truthful and not helpful don't say it

If it is truthful and not helpful don't say it

If it is helpful and not  truthful don't say it

theIf it is both Truthful and Helpful... Wait for the right time 

Buddhist Quote

Nobody  can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), US First Lady 1933-1945 

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Sir Francis Bacon (1561- 626), English author, courtier & philosopher

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

Milton Berle (1908 – 2002), American Comedian and Actor

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato (c. 428 - c. 347 BC), Ancient Greek Philosopher

If you are going to fuss over things, it is important to pick your battles.

Neale Donald Walsch, Spiritual Author

Who can protest an injustice but does not is an accomplice to the act.

The Talmud, Central text of mainstream Judaism

In practice, what can be solved only through intelligence is a problem.

Hermann Keyserling(1880-1946), German phylosopher

The relation of genius to talent is the same as that of instinct to reason.

Jules Renard (1864-1910), French Author, Playwright

When we thought that we had all the answers, suddenly all the questions changed. 

               Mario Benedetti (1920-), Uruguayan Author

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John F. Kennedy (917-1963), US President

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American Writer

“Come to the edge.”

“We can't. We're afraid.”

“Come to the edge.”

“We can't. We will fall!”

“Come to the edge.” 

 And they came.

And he pushed them. 

 And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), French Poet, Philosopher 

You are braver than you believe,

You are stronger than you seem,

You are smarter than you think.  

Christopher Robin to Pooh, from Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-1968), American Clergyman, Activist, Leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement 

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. 

            Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955), Spanish philosopher

All the world is the laboratory to the inquiring mind.

Beliefnet e-card

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

John Milton (1608-74), English poet  

You can change your mind at any moment about how something is affecting you. 

Neale Donald Walsch, Author of Conversation With God

"Does not that man abuse you?" "No," said Socrates, "for that does not apply to me." It was a saying of his, too, "It is a good thing for a man to offer himself cheerfully to the attacks of the comic writers; for then, if they say anything worth hearing, one will be able to mend; and if they do not, then all they say is unimportant."

Diogenes Laertius, Ancient Greek Philosopher, from Life of Socrates

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895), German philosopher

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, writer

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese poet, novelist

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

John Fowles (1926) English novelist

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer and physicist

Common sense is an instinct for the truth.

Max Jacobs (1876-1944), French writer

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), American Jurist

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Marc Twain (1835-1910), American Author, Humourist

"Don't try to remember how beautiful it was yesterday just because you don't feel so today. The Present has always it own Truth - live up to it! Stop manipulating yourself by trying to drag  back your 'nice' memories of the past to embelish the present!"

Tiyana Maksimovich-Binno's Intuition or Guidance

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. 

Author unknown

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

John F. Kennedy, (1917-1963) US President

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Marc Twain (1835-1910) American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer 

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

Steven Spielberg, American Film Director, Screenwriter and Producer

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Marc Twain (1835-1910) American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), French Author

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Marc Twain (1835-1910) American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer 

When a scholar goes to seek out a bride he should take along an ignoramus as an expert.

The Talmud, Central text of mainstream Judaism

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at any time in your life.

Cher, American Singer

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller (1880-1968), American Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer

We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.

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Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

Herbert Shelton (1895–1985), American Health Educator, Pacifist, Aadvocate of Raw-foodism

Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell happened.  

Cora Harvey Armstrong

Old age ain't no place for sissies. 

Bette Davis (1908-1989), American Actress 

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

The Talmud, Central text of mainstream Judaism

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Marc Twain, American Author

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

              Watterson Lowe

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish Playwright, Critic

Change is the law of life.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) US President

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Knute Rockne, 1888-1931, American Football Coach

We can do no great things - only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa (1910- 1997), Catholic Nun, Founded the Missionaries of Charity 

An experience is never a failure because it always serves to show something.

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), US physicist and inventor

 Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows. 

Jennifer Unlimited 

Nothing we spend our lives struggling to take from this world has the power to grant us the one thing we long to possess above all else: our own true nature.

Guy Finley, Personal Growth Leader

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and stars; you have a right to be here, and whether or not it is clear to you; no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Max Ehrmann (1872 - 945), American Attorney, 'Desiderata'

The highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

Socrates (c. 469 BC-399 BC), Ancient Greek Phiilosopher

If you have a yes-man working for you, one of you is redundant.  

Colin Powell (1937- ), American Statesman

And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, evolve some distant day into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) US President

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), English Politician and Author

Peace is not a season... it is a way of life. When the spirit of Peace becomes a part of our lives, everyday will be Christmas and every night will hold the promise of dawn.

An old Christmas card

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Unknown on Internet

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Malcolm S. Forbes (1917-1990), American Publisher

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American Physicist

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English Author

When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu (6th century BC), Ancient Chinese Philosopher

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), US President

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop ( 620–560 BC), Ancient Greek Slave and Story-teller

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Goethe, German Philosopher, Author

The best things in life are not things.

Anonimous

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

George Michael (1963-  ), English Singer-Songwriter

When you've seen beyond yourself - then you may find peace of mind is waiting there - And the time will come when you see we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

George Harrison (The Beatles), 'Within You Without You'

Be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others; even the dull and ignorant. They, too, have their story.

Anonimous - dated 1692

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Author unknown

I never take counsel of my fears.

 US General George Patton (1885-1945) 

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

J K Rowling (1965-  ), British Author of Harry Potter

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Marc Twain (1835-1910) American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer 

Any achievement that doesn't serve to liberate us from the level of self that measures itself by its successes is only a part of a prison yet to be realized.

Guy Finley, Personal Growth and Spiritual Leader, Author

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), US President

According to recognised aerotechnical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. But the bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.

Anonimous

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter arises was often-times filled with your tears.

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese Poet

Happiness is a way of travelling, not a destination.

Author unknown

You don't acquire happiness: your basic nature is happiness. You simply remove the unhappiness, the AGFLAP [anxiety, guilt, fear, lust, anger and pride by Releasing the respective body sensations].

Lester Levenson (1909-1993), American Physicist, Engineer, Founder of The Release Technique

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexeplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001), English Author, Comic Radio Dramatist, Musician

Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.

Willis Harman, President, The Institute of Noetic Sciences 

Trying to "fix" the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.  

Guy Finley, Personal Growth and Spiritual Leader, Author

You best serve humanity by getting out of the coffee shop and the bookstore and into the street. The world awaits your contribution... There is more that you can do than you know. Just get out there and look for it.

Neale Donald Walsch, once homeless, Author Conversations With God

Hire yourself out to work, which is beneath you, rather than become dependent on others.

The Talmud, Central text of the mainstream Judaism

Blaming someone else for your gloomy day is like resenting the TV weatherman because it's cold and rainy outside.

 Guy Finley, Spiritual Growth Leader, Author

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) US President

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Marc Twain (1835-1910) American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer 

Crying is balm to the Soul.

Patricia McGrae, Australian Spiritual Healer

No oak became mighty in a moment,

No mountain towered overnight;

True greatness flowers in the soul

By long exposure to God's light.

Guy Finley, Spiritual Growth Leader, Author

Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.

Margaret Shepherd,  Calligrapher, Author

The truth of Prosperity is not found in oneself but in people connecting to people connecting to God.

A Monk

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

Lydia Marie Child (1802-1880), American Abolitionist, Women's and Indian Rights Activist, Novelist, Journalist     

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money.

The Talmud  

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

Marc Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve