"You need a little bit of insanity to do great things."

- Henry Rollins

"I look at the good. When you are relaxed, your body is always relaxed. When you are pessimistic, your body behaves in an unnatural way. It is up to us whether we look at the good or the bad. When you are nice to others, they are nice to you. When you give, you receive."   

- Alice Herz-Sommer, pianist and holocaust survivor

"People all over the world tell me that whatever it was they were chasing . . . and as a psychiatrist, my opinion is that everybody is chasing something.  Some people are chasing power, which is so ridiculous.  I, myself, have spent my life chasing knowledge, some people chase fame or money or any of these other things. But whatever they were chasing up to this near death experience, they come back and they say the same thing from all over the world -- 

-- they say what this life is all about is learning how to love, because that is what everybody saw.  When they had their life review, the most important things in this review had to do with the love they showed other people."

- Raymond Moody, M.D.

Serendipity & Synchronicity

"Nothing happens by accident when your soul gets involved. It is the most intentional presence in your life whether you recognize its existence or not. Your soul is omniscient and ever present. It informs your decision making through the thoughts and images it provides. It is the essence that fuels your intuition. When you are certain of something it is your soul’s voice that resounds from the depths of psyche. When a mysterious coincidence occurs it is often the design of your soul’s whimsical nature. Yes, the soul has a sense of humor and often speaks to us through metaphors, symbols, riddles, and clues."

- Dr. Carder Stout

The Interconnectedness of Everything

https://vimeo.com/59197479

"Be strong enough to let go and patient enough to wait for what you deserve."

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” 

- C.S. Lewis 

The only thing that is lasting in the physical world is the love we gave and received.

"Givers have to set limits because takers never do." 

- Irma Kurtz

"Life is filled with roses and thorns and how you deal with it is the true test."

"Finding truth is difficult and the road to it is rough. As seekers of the truth, you would be wise to withhold judgment and not simply put your trust in the writings of the ancients. You must question and critically examine those writings from every side. You must submit only to argument and experiment and not to the sayings of any person. For every human being is vulnerable to all kinds of imperfections. As seekers of the truth, we must also suspect and question our own ideas as we perform our investigations, to avoid falling into credulous or careless thinking. Take this course and truth will be revealed to you." 

- Islamic scholar Ibn Alhazen, 965 - 1040 AD

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand:  The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others."

- Audrey Hepburn

hurt people hurt people

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” 

- Maya Angelou

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~Lao Tzu

YOU BECOME LIKE

THE 5 PEOPLE 

YOU SPEND THE

MOST TIME WITH.

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CHOOSE CAREFULLY.

"NEVER let an abuser live rent free in our minds....that allows them to continue to hurt us.  Let it go."

"kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see"

- Mark Twain

Life = Risk

"To love is to recognize yourself in another."

- Eckhart Tolle

“Stress happens when your mind resists what is.” 

- Dan Millman

"Attention is all that we have, that is to say, attention is all that we can bring. The rest is out of our control. A higher energy is there. The purpose of man's existence on Earth is to allow the exchange of energy between the earth and higher levels of existence."

- Madame De Salzmann
 

“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.”

- Alan Watts

"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar who's also a hypocrite!"

- Tennessee Williams

GRATITUDE

"Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.” 

~Ram Dass

"In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.” 

- Ram Dass

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” 

- Maya Angelou

“The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.”  

- Heather Choate Davis

"You've got to learn to leave the table when love's no longer being served."

- Nina Simone