"A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it." 

- Chinese Proverb

"Forgiveness is a gift to the one who forgives."

“Rejection is protection and redirection.” - Earl Purdy

Attitude

"Human beings can alert their lives by altering their attitudes of mind . . . we become what we think about." 

"When you know better you do better." 

- Maya Angelou

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” —Kahlil Gibran

Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World

"Our rewards in life will always be in exact porportion to our contribution...our service."
- Earl Nightingale

Forgiveness

"Hurt people hurt people. No one who feels good about themselves goes around hurting people." - Dr. Trish Whynot

Transforming the feeling of being a victim . . .

"We can consider the encounter as a gift.  If we didn't have a wound that wasn't already there, we wouldn't have taken it personally.  Real strength is born of humility, having the courage to admit when we are bothered. We have a choice, we can choose to be less because of that experience or to be more because of it." - Dr. Trish Whynot

“What impressed me about Dr. Trish Whynot was her ability to see through the chaos of life’s web and identify the root cause of any problem. She has the natural ability to see past the smoke screen of drama, chaos and emotion and recognize the true origin of our physical, mental, social and even financial issues.” - Bob Olson

To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment. - Anthony De Mello

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.” - Gandhi

The Great Vegetarians

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”  
- Albert Einstein

For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy. . .

Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded; they are disintegrating elements which break up the straight line of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual, useless.  Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplished anything and Never can.  They always lead to failure.  Purpose, energy, power-to-do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in.   

- As A Man Thinketh, James Allen

“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.” - Eckhart Tolle 

"Only those who are asleep make no mistakes." - Ingvar Kamprad

"Men do not attract what they want, but what they are." 

- James Allen

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” - Nikola Tesla

"The ego loves busyness and creating and sustaining problems."

“Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.” 

 - Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."  
- Sophia Loren

Be Yourself

"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight.  Never stop fighting." 

- E.E. Cummings

Happiness

"On Earth everyone yearns for happiness, but do they know what real happiness is?  No.  People on Earth think happiness means a lot of money, comfort, luxuries, fun and fame.  We are sorry to say that these things do not bring real happiness. Real happiness comes from true love, nature's beauty, genuine laughter and smiles, helping others selflessly, and purifying your soul to achieve a higher level."

Life is easy if you don't want too much!

"Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them."

- Andrew V. Mason

Christmas is a necessity.

"There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves."

"The definition of insanity is thinking that you need something you don't have. The mere fact that you exist right now without that which you think you need is proof that you don't need it." - Byron Katie

"Turn your wounds into Wisdom." - Oprah Winfrey

"Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us."  - Ben Franklin

"Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power."  - James Allen, As a Man Thinketh