"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing."

- Camille Pissaro

"You make a living from what you get, you make a life from what you give."

"I'd pared my possession down to almost nothing.  I had a filthy old sarong for hot weather, and a jumper and wooly socks for cold weather.  I had something to sleep on and something to eat and drink out of, and that was all I needed . .  .  Like with any journey, it's not what you carry, but what you leave behind. "

- Robyn Davidson, Tracks, a 1700 mile journey across Australia with a dog and three camels

"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.” - Ralph Ellison

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

- Dr. Steven Hawking - A Brief History of Time

"What's looking out of your eyes is what's looking out of my eyes."  

- Mike Snyder

"One of the most important qualities to possess is an open mind."

I don't have a hope for a future because I've realized that I don't have a future. And it doesn't hurt to think about it, because what I'm doing is having a good time right now. My hope is not connected to the length of a future, but to the contents of the present. 

- Angela

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you.” 

- Lewis B. Smedes

"All along, I was worse than I thought.  But all along, I was more loved than I thought."  - Timothy Keller

"When our mind is unquestioned we are so sure that we are right."

"To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.” ~Eckhart Tolle

"All people are homeless until they know who they are."

- Iain McNay

"Don't love anything that can't love you back."

"There are only two types of people in the world.  The ones that entertain and the ones that observe." - Britney Spears

“People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.” 

Sometimes Fear is:

False Evidence Appearing Real

F-E-A-R 

" . . . The key is love and tolerance of others, not condemnation or judgment.  Nobody is right or wrong because we are continually evolving.  Furthermore, as each of us develops along our journey, we learn more.  In the process of evolving, if we are wrong, we are only wrong temporarily.  As we learn more, our interpretation of events will change."  - Jody Long

“The interaction between the generally reasonable, rational, ethical, moral conscious mind and the repressed feelings of emotional pain, hurt, sadness, and anger characteristic of the unconscious mind appears to be the basis for mindbody disorders.”

- Dr. John Sarno

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.  

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We determine the quality We put in our day." - B. Mimi

“The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.”  

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen." 

- John Cusack

"The world is what people make of it—They can make for themselves a good life here, or they can make themselves miserable—and it seems like there’s a lot of people who like to make themselves miserable."

Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.

The mind is our obstacle, not the past.

- Eckhart Tolle

"Discipline means having the courage and quiet determination to remember always what is most important in life."