"Ships don’t sink because of the water around them; ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what’s happening around you get inside you and weigh you down.” 

~Unknown

"Don't treat people as bad as they are, treat people as good as you are."

- Ralph Smart

"When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you don’t say ‘no’ to yourself.” 

- Paolo Coehlo

"Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.” 

~Melody Beattie

"All anxiety emanates from the desire to escape the present moment."

"The Mountains are calling and I must go."

-John Muir

"It’s not a matter of letting go, you would if you could. Instead of ‘Let it go,’ we should probably say ‘Let it be.'” 

~Jon Kabat-Zinn

"ALWAYS BE IN LOVE WITH A SOUL, NOT A FACE."

"Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."

"With gentleness, Overcome anger.  With generosity, Overcome meanness.  With truth, Overcome delusion."

- The Dhammapada

"Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.” 

~Eckhart Tolle

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.  

People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

- Nelson Mandela

"Everybody brings their own unique personality to the world ... that's what makes it interesting.
The forest would be a boring place if filled only with the sounds of those birds who sang loudest.  
Niagara Fans is mesmerizing ... and so is a babbling brook."

- Cheryl Lehman

“Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.” 

― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

The Law of Attraction

"Whatever you're seeking is seeking you."

- Derek

"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent.  Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.  So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind."

- Krishnamurit

"You don't make mistakes; mistakes make you."

- from The Last Word movie

"The only way to be truly happy is to get your mind off yourself and help somebody else.” 

~Joyce Meyer

"Imitation is suicide.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody."

- Maya Angelou

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”


-Dr. Seuss

"Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.”


-Oliver James

“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”


-Virginia Satir

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson