"Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to."

 - Shannon Alder

"Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” 

- Scott Adams

"Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.”

 – Byron Katie

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” 

- Marcel Proust

“Always maintain a kind of summer even in the middle of winter.”

- Henry David Thoreau

"When you let go, you give yourself peace."

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

~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Non-attachment means that you are able to live your life outside of the other person; it ultimately takes pressure off and allows you to be without depending on anything or anyone to feed your soul."

- M. J. Ross

"If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won."

- Joichi Ito

The Thin Line Between Righteousness and Hate

"When a person turns to wrong, is it a want to be, belong?

Part of things at any cost, at what price a life is lost

At what point do we begin, fighter spirit a will to win

But what makes a man decide, take the wrong or righteous road

There's a thin line between love and hate
Wider divide that you can see between good and bad
There's a grey place between black and white
But everyone does have the right to choose the path that he takes

We all like to put the blame on society these days
But what kind of good or bad a new generation brings . . ."

- The Persuaders lyrics

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” 

- Epictetus

"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

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.” 

 - William S. Burroughs

"Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level." 

- Tim Gunn

"Wherever we go in life, our attitude goes ahead of us. So if you’re carrying an attitude of doom and self-defeatism, the world’s going to give you a lot of reasons to sustain that attitude. Similarly, if you can shift your attitude to one of more positive expectation, agree with yourself that surprises might be fun, that challenges and gifts might both be part of your learning process in life, you will do better. So these are fundamental rules of living:  check your attitude.  Recognize that whatever you think or feel, the universe is going to say yes."

- Robert Moss

“The main affliction of our modern civilization is that we don’t know how to handle the suffering inside us and we try to cover it up with all kinds of consumption.”

 ~Thich Nhat Hạnh

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing. Only one thing endures ... and that is character.”  

—Horace Greeley

"The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.” 

- Deepak Chopra

"If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies how very different our ideals of beauty would be."

"You have a choice each and every single day. I choose to feel blessed. I choose to feel grateful. I choose to be excited. I choose to be thankful. I choose to be happy.” 

 - Amber Housley

"In order to be irreplaceable one must also be different."

- Coco Chanel

"The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"There comes a time in life when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it.  Surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good.  Love the people who treat you right.  Pray for the ones who don't.  Life is too short to be anything but happy.  Falling down is part of life, getting back up is living."

"The weird thing is, you get more comfortable in yourself, even as time is giving you less reason for it. When you’re young and beautiful, you’re paranoid and miserable. I think one of the great advantages of getting older is that you let go of certain things."

- Helen Mirren

"Experience never gets old."

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."  – Frank Lloyd Wright

The Observer

"Don’t try to force outcomes — let them happen.  Be open to what emerges."

"The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people...the more peaceful your life will become." 

- Mandy Hale

"In my experience, it is when we are empty that we feel the need to have so much. When I was the most happy in my life, I had the least amount of "stuff."