"Nothing happens before its time - so just wait and relax - your tension will not make it happen before its time."

"The only reason we are here is to be in service to one another." 

- Scarlett Lewis, mother of Sandy Hook Elementary School victim, 6-year-old Jesse Lewis

"Often we have to choose between justice and healing."

- Marc Nepo

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.” 

- Markus Zusak

“As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.”

- James Allen

I don’t control life.

I control my reactions and actions but not much else.

When I try to manipulate life, people, and places, I end up exhausted. It’s not my domain. It’s not up to me to control outcomes. 

All I can do is follow my heart, my inner GPS, and see what happens. I am a passenger in this body, on this blue planet of ours.

I am here to experience both the good and the bad. I am here to learn and to grow. To cry and to laugh.

From TinyBuddah.com

"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown bt the kind of friends he chooses."

Complain less, stop interrupting and accept things just as they are!!!

I’m certain that I have an internal guidance system that 'speaks' to me. And, my life is a lot better if I listen! 

- Joanie Thurston

If you do not fear the unknown, the unknown will be kind to you.

- Paulo Coelho

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

In that state of calm, silent bliss, even forgiveness passes away, and is no longer needed, for he who has reached it sees no evil to resent but only ignorance and delusion on which to have compassion, and forgiveness is only needed so long as there is any tendency to resent, retaliate, and take offense.  - James Allen

"Fame on Earth has absolutely no value in the spirit world."

"Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most 

dangerous things a person can do." 

- Peter Breggin, MD

"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.”

"We all die.  The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Find what brings you joy and go there."

- Jan Phillips

But do not distress yourself with imaginings.  Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.  Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. - Max Ehrmann "Desiderata"

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. 

- Aristotle

"Do you wish to rise?  Begin by descending.  You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds?  Lay first the foundation of humility." 

- St. Augustine

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

 - Ernest Hemingway

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. 

- Jim Rohm

“Whatever you fight, you strengthen and what you resist, persists.”  - Eckhart Tolle 

A vacation used to be a luxury, but in today's world it has become a necessity.

Energy follows attention and intentions - direct your focus to what you wish to become!

"Often we have to choose between justice and healing." 

- Marc Nepo