"What we call the beginning is often the end.  And to make an end is to make a beginning.  The end is

 where we start from." - T.S. Eliot

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."  - Robert Louis Stevenson

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."  
-Leo Aikman

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton

"The more you dance, the more you become aware that you are the dance.  To touch this presence that you are, is the priority in your life. Nothing is more important, nothing easier, nothing more rewarding, safer or comforting."  - Michaela

“In chaos, there is fertility.” -Anais Nin

Joy is not in things, it is in us. - Benjamin Franklin

What is Love?

Love is the forgetfulness of self.

“When we recall Christmases past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.” —Bob Hope

- becommingminimalist.com

Stay The Course

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." 

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year 
for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time." - Laura Ingalls Wilder

"If you want a truly happy holiday season, you’ll have to find ways to cultivate happiness from the inside." - Allison Vesterfelt

These 2 dogs were playing in the mud; they had slightly different experiences : ) 

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” 
- Socrates

Home Is Where The Heart Is...

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."  
-Helen Keller

Humans are like snowflakes, no two are alike…

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." - Theodore Roosevelt

'Tis The Season

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
-- Harlan Miller

Photo by Heather Clawson

"The course of true love never did run smooth." - William Shakespeare

"If the only prayer you say in your entire life is 'Thank you," that would suffice."

-Meister Eckhart (1260-c.1320)

"Yes.... everything is temporary, make sure to take time to enjoy the moment, you will never get it back."

Space and light and order. Those are the things that people need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

— Le Corbusier

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” —Theodore Roosevelt

"Life is a ride of happy trails and bucking horses. All of us have a singularly exclusive, unique trip. Like snowflakes, no two are alike."

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." 
- Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013

Have Less, Do More

 "...Possessions are nice, but they rust, rot, get stolen and burn in fires.  Experiences can’t be taken from us.  

They have eternal value."

- Excerpts from Becoming Minimalist

“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” - Picasso

“Everything important in life is like this—here one moment and gone the next. All we have are these moments, and what we choose to do with them is what we choose to do with our lives. We can miss or relish every one." 
-Jeff Goins, The In Between

"Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it."  - Alexandra David-Neel

What, you ask, is the beginning of it all?

And it is this …

Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into 

numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably. - sri aurobindo