"Who is it that’s unhappy? The one who finds fault.” 

~Anonymous

"If we want to awaken, we don't need to eradicate the ego, we simply need to be conscious of the deeper self as well. " 

- Timothy Freke

"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."

- Susan Sarandon

"Men say they know many things;

But lo!  they have taken wings --

The arts and sciences,

And a thousand appliances;

The wind that blows

Is all that any body knows."

"Go where you are celebrated, not where you are tolerated."

"We don't meet people by accident.  They are meant to cross our path."

"The largest part of what we call ‘personality’ is determined by how we’ve opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.” 

~Alain de Botton

"Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought."

- James Allen

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." 

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Change is the only constant that we can depend on.

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

- John Wooden

"Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness."

- Emanuel Swedenborg

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” 

~Bryant H. McGill

“Perfectionism doesn’t make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.” 

~Maria Shriver

"We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal."

- Rupert Spira

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy amidst the simple beauty of nature...I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles." 

- Anne Frank

 “Love knows no boundaries. Love cannot be jealous, because love cannot possess. It is ugly, the very idea that you possess somebody because you love. You possess somebody – it means you have killed somebody and turned him into a commodity. Only things can be possessed. Love gives freedom. Love is freedom.”

- Osho

"Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.”

"The ones that love us never really leave us."

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern."

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"I had missed the point; I’d played the song but I didn’t dance."

“You live life by analogy, a journey with a pilgrimage to get to the end success, heaven, whatever. You missed the point, you were supposed to dance.”

"The more you know, the more you know you don't know."

- Aristotle

"A good half of the art of living is resilience.” 

- Alan de Botton

The Power of Love

Woman adopted 2 lion cubs but had to give them up - Here's what happened visiting them 7 years later:

“Anything you can’t control in life is teaching you how to let go.”

~Unknown