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"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's
peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will
blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while
cares will drop off like autumn leaves." John Muir
"When I heard the learn’d astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and
measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much
applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars." Walt Whitman
" Satisfaction is characterized by inner peace. It arises from
generosity, honesty and what I call ethical conduct, a way of behaving
that respects others’ right to be happy." Dalai Lama
"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where
they should be. Now put the foundations under them." Henry David Thoreau
"We must learn how to identify the opposing sides in our inner
conflicts. Take anger: we need to see how destructive it is and at the
same time, realize there are antidotes within our own thoughts and
emotions that can counter it. So by understanding how negative it is and
then by strengthening our positive thoughts and emotions, we can
gradually reduce the force of our anger and hatred." Dalai Lama
"We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments.
But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what
others may consider a small one." unknown source
"Until you're enough nothing is ever enough." Caryl A.
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master
you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight." Helen Keller
"When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to
see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the
weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do
your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and
instead be content creating the causes for goodness; ...the results will
come when they’re ready.” Tibetan Buddhist nun and author Bhikshuni
Thubten Chodron
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn,
whatever state I may be in, therein to be content." Helen Keller
"I open my eyes and there placed before me is a gift. Gently I pull away
a layer of the wrapping and with awe take in the mystery. A new day has
arrived!" Unknown
"In the morning when you wake up, you reflect on the day ahead and
aspire to use it to keep a wide-open heart and mind. At the end of the
day, before going to sleep, you think over what you have done. If you
fulfilled your aspiration, even once, rejoice in that. If you went
against your aspiration, rejoice that you are able to see what you did
and are no longer living in ignorance. This way you will be inspired to
go forward with increasing clarity, confidence, and compassion in the
days that follow." Pema Chödrön
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must
keep moving." Albert Einstein
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of
the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being
shared.” Buddha
"And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and
there find Him. For He departed, and behold, He is here." St Augustine
"The point of power is always in the present moment." Louise Hay
"All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good.
Out if this situation only good will come. I am safe!" Louise Hay
"Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way
things turn out." - Life is Good
“To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes
perfect virtue. They are Gravity, Generosity of Soul, Sincerity,
Earnestness and Kindness.” Confucius
"Everything is okay in the end, if it's not okay, then it's not the
end." Author Unknown
"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An
old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it
meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day." Dalai Lama
"If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts."
Alan Cohen
"The lessons we learn from our failures are lessons that help us
succeed, And if we are wise and we heed them, then failure is just what
we need." D.De Haan
''He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness
gathers love." Saint Basil
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I
am saying.” Oscar Wilde
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but
in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust
"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on,
with all
the wisdom that experience can instill in us." Hal Borland
" It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
warning to others" -Anon
"In the depths of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an
invincible summer." Albert Camus
"People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if
their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of
December." Ogden Nash
"Side by side or miles apart friends are forever close to your heart!" Anon
“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll
"For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness
sends." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it
must be gratitude." Benjamin Disrael
"I feel a very unusual sensation - if I'm not dead, I think it must be
serenity." Debbie Young
"Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he
amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is
merely something good to eat." Archy and Mehitabel, Don Marquis
"Gratitude is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the
others." Cicero
"Until one has loved an animal, part of one's soul remains unawakened." Anon
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming
gardeners who make our souls blossom." Marcel Proust
"Three Jewels: compassion, moderation, and humility" Taoist
philosophy
"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the
impossible. " Anon
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small
ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to
sleep in peace. God is awake." Victor Hugo
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old
and the new." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually
enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering. " Carl Sandburg
"When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a
step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things
will happen to you: either there will be something solid for you to
stand on, or you will be taught how to fly" Albert Einstein
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at
least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we
didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us
all be thankful." Buddha
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding
on." Henry Ellis
"We grow by our willingness to face and rectify errors and convert them
into assets." Bill Wilson
"If you know how to live your life, your life must be good." Life is
Good
"Ponder the Yonder" Life is Good
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