New Year

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'” - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Through Love

"Through Love all pain will turn to medicine." — Rumi

Who We Are

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have."

                                  - Vince Lombardi

Heal

“If you want to heal
Heal others
And smile or weep
At this very happy reversal of fate”

― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Successful

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself."

        - Paulo Coelho

Who You Are

"Figure out who you are, separate from your family, and the man or woman you're in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world, and what you need to feel good alone. I think that's the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else."   - ANGELINA JOLIE

Do What You Love

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost

To Let Go

"The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit." - Jack Kornfield

Be Well

"Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well." - Jack Kornfield

Strong Desire

"A strong desire for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means." - William Hazlitt











 

Closer to the Truth

"Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth."

 

~ Pema Chödrön

Design

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

- Charles Eames

Long Hallway

"When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.” ― Rick Jarow

Events

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."  - Maya Angelou

Our Thoughts

"We create our lives from our thoughts." - Madisyn Taylor

Bounty of Existence

"What you perceive as trouble is nothing more than a bit of interesting flavor in the endless perfect bounty of existence." - Ralph Marston

Time and Space

"Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out."

 

~Gautama Buddha

Game Worth Playing

"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Don't Fit

“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.” ― Shannon L. Alder

Be Easy on Yourself

"Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it." -Amy Poehler

Our Weaknesses

"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

A Spiritual Cause

Everything -- absolutely everything -- that happens in our lives has a spiritual cause. Mental, emotional and physical events are only effects.

When we are struggling with any challenge, whether it be ill health, a lack of money, a lost job, relationships, an accident, whatever -- we need to look for the spiritual learning. We can ask ourselves, "What quality does my soul want me to live more fully?"

- John Robson

Impossible Dream

"What you think of as an impossible dream might be reasonable if you thought differently." ~ Harry Palmer

Inner Dream

"Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult." ~ Julia Cameron

Lovely Days

“Lovely days don't come to you. You should walk to them.” - Rumi

Birds That Fly

"Laughing at all the haters out there! Take your evil tongue and eye and turn them into birds that fly! Don't waste precious time. Spend it on things you love."  -  Madonna

Go There

"If you can go there in your mind, in clear and compelling detail, you can go there in your life." - Ralph Marston

Your Journey

“Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time.” - Asha Tyson

Presence

"If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future." - Eckhart Tolle

Kind-Sight

View your life with kind-sight. Stop beating yourself up about things from
your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, 'What was I
thinking,' breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, 'What was I...
learning?' ~ Karen Salmansohn

Wounds

"We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds — the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise." - Caroline Myss

Change the Future

"What you do in the present will redeem the past and thereby change the future." - Paulo Coelho

Where There's Joy

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

Orderly Lives

"When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder."

 

~Joan Halifax Roshi

Will Be

“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.” ~ Lauren Bacall

Compassion

"We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival."

 

~Joan Halifax Roshi

Acceptance

"You must learn to outwardly trust, to accept others, to love others; but you must also trust, accept and love yourself. You must know that you are good enough for others to accept. Acceptance is freedom." - Deborah Livingston (Medium)  

Wherever We Go

“Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving
ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing
each other out. We set this house
on fire, forgetting that we live within.” ― Jim Harrison

True Happiness

"True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish."

 

~Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

  

Somewhere Better

"Without giving up hope-that there's somewhere better to be, that there's someone better to be-we will never relax with where we are or who we are."

 

~Pema Chödrön

Beloved

"Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, 'Prove that you are a good person.' Another voice says, 'You'd better be ashamed of yourself.' There also is a voice that says, 'Nobody really cares about you,' and one that says, 'Be sure to become successful, popular, and powerful.' But underneath all these often very noisy voices is a still, small voice that says, 'You are my Beloved, my favor rests on you.' That's the voice we need most of all to hear. To hear that voice, however, requires special effort; it requires solitude, silence, and a strong determination to listen. That's what prayer is. It is listening to the voice that calls us 'my Beloved.' "  - Henri Nouwen

Light

"Live in rooms full of light." - Cornelius Celsus

Still Mind

"A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine." - Meher Baba