“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” 

-Audrey Hepburn

"The ego is the false self — born out of fear and defensiveness.” 

~John O’Donoh

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” 

-Abraham Lincoln

🐾 Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.🐾 

-George Eliot

COEXIST

"Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free." 

- Dalai Lama

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.”

― Rumi

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” 

~Robert Brault

“When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.” 

~Caroline Myss

"When we are in alignment with our Soul, the struggle disappears."  

-Neale Donald Walsh

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.

❤️

“When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.” 

~Caroline Myss

“Dwell in stillness and to observe without reacting and without judging.”


- Jon Kabit-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are

HURT PEOPLE
HURT PEOPLE.
FORGIVEN PEOPLE
FORGIVE PEOPLE.

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.” 

-Colette

“My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.” 

-Edith Wharton

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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

- 14th Dalai Lama

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” 

-Sophia Loren

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

—Ben Williams

“Nothing will work unless you do.” 

-Maya Angelou

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” 

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Be grateful for the gifts you’ve been given and focus on that rather than what is not right.  Gratitude can turn around a heavy heart and a sad day.  Life's not perfect, it's never going to be, however, we can make it better by being Grateful for simple things most take for granted.

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.  There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.  Think of it -- always."

-Mahatma Ghandi