“Life is like a book. Those who don’t travel are always on the same page.”

”Look after your body, or you’ll have nowhere to live.”  Ekhart

“It’s not that happy people are thankful so  much as it is that thankful people are happy.”

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” Rumi

“It is the time you’ve wasted on your rose that makes your rose so important” Antoine de Saint-Exubery, author and pilot

“For after all, the best one can do when it is raining, is let it rain.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet.

“Don’t believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that…thoughts.” Allan Lokos, author, Effective Practices for Enlightened Living.

“It isn’t the mountains that wear you out- it’s the pebble in your shoe.” Muhammed Ali, prizefighter

“Hope is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader

“This world is but a canvas for our imagination.” Henry David Thoreau, naturalist

“She dropped a coin into the cup of a blind man at the gate                                           And forgot about a simple twist of fate.” Bob Dylan/songwriter

“The mind is like a dangerous neighborhood. I try never to go there alone.” Anne Lamott/Author

“We’ve said some things that hurt, but love’s always had the last word. We’ve called it everything but quits.” Lee Ann Womack/Country Singer

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” Wallace Stevens/American Poet

“A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.”
Rainer Maria Rilke/Austrian Poet

“We stand in our own shadow and wonder why it’s dark.”  Zen Proverb

“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/Scientist

“Between stimulus and response there is a space.  In that space is our power to choose our response.  In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor Frankl, psychologist/philosopher

“The pursuit of knowledge does exemplify one of the finer traits of humanity (and there are an awful lot of terrible traits, so we should be happy to find a good one) – and that finer trait is curiosity and wondering what’s over the next hill …. and wanting to know for no particular reason other than the joy of discovery.” Ira Becker, astrophysicist

“I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” Mark Twain, author/philosopher

“I want happiness.” Take out the “I”, that’s ego. Take out “want”, that’s desire. Just happiness is left. Buddha