Kindness

"There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." - Dalai Lama

Forward

"When you're trying to motivate yourself, appreciate the fact that you're even thinking about making a change. And as you move forward, allow yourself to be good enough." - Alice Domar 

Hope

"Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul,  And sings the tune without the words,  And never stops at all..." - Emily Dickinson

Begin

"To begin, begin." - William Wordsworth

Before Speaking

"Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid." -  Bernard Meltzer

Peace

"Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections." - Katherine Paterson

Imagination

"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." - Gloria Steinem

"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies." - Roderick Thorp

Love

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Give and Receive

"I dream of a world where none will be so poor they have nothing to give and none will be so rich they have nothing to receive." - John Paul II

Happy

"Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." - Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx

Teachers

"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - Pema Chedron

Appreciation

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." - Margaret Cousins 

Faith

"Without risk, faith is an impossibility." - Soren Kierkegaard

Fear

"Fear not the future, weep not for the past." - Percy Shelley

Fact

"Make your future dream a present fact, by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled." - Neville

Thoughts

"We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere." - Orison Swett Marden

Entry Point

"Wherever you are is the entry point." - Kabir

One Person

"Never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes in the world come about. So be that person." - Buckminster Fuller

Within

"Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig." - Marcus Aurelius

Change

"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. What you see reflects your thinking. And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see." - A Course In Miracles

capable

"There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela

Target

"When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim - improve yourself." - Gilbert Arland

Change

"A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool. To change your mind frivolously is a cop-out. To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world." - Alan Cohen

Love

"And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love..." - Mother Teresa

Opening doors

"Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. 

Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. 

I have been helped, supported, encouraged 

and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, 

colors and dreams."

 - Alice Walker

Words

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few." - Pythagoras

Gift

"Think of every single thing that we 'have to' do to get through a day, as something that we 'get to' do... before our turn is over. 

Everything is a gift."

 - Mike Dooley

Positive Thinking

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." -  Zig Ziglar 

Content

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortman 

Laughter

"The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed." - Nicolas Chamfort

Happiness

"The secret to happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one does." - James M. Barrie

Mind

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein

Life

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." - Bruce Lee 

Cheerfulness

"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." - Joseph Addison

Little Things

"It's the little things you do that make the big things happen." - Mike Dooley 

Giver of Light

"If you wish the world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate yourself. If you wish to diminish fear in the world, diminish your own. These are the gifts that you can give." - Gary Zuka

Vision

"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Happy

"Find something to be happy about every day, and every hour, even if only for a few minutes, and if possible moment-to-moment. This is the easiest and best protection you can have." - Gregg Braden

Unafraid

"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity." - Irving Wallace