Things

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Opportunities

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great!" - Orison Swett Marden

Tomorrow

"You can't have a better tomorrow if you're thinking about yesterday." - Charles Kettering

Appreciate

"Teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had." - Susan L. Lenzkes

Present

"Be present - it is the only moment that matters." - Dan Millman

Choices

"Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places." - Nathan Pyle 

Hope

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

Life

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment." - Eckhart Tolle 

Joy

"When you are dancing and singing with joy, with deep acceptance of yourself as you are, wisdom starts happening" - Osho

Tender Heart

"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart." - Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Paradise

"The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp." - John Berry 

Love

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu

Paths

"There are hundreds of paths up the mountain, all leading to the same place, so it doesn't matter which path you take. The only person wasting time is the one who runs around the mountain, telling everyone that his or her path is wrong." - Hindu proverb 

Courage

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs

The Master

"The Master observes the world, 

but trusts his inner vision. 

He allows things to come and go. 

His heart is as open as the sky."  

- Laozi

imagination

"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination." - Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 

"Thank You"

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You", that would suffice."
- Meister Eckhart

Solution

"If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion— but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion." - Abraham

Answers

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." - Lao Tzu 

Laugh

"There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears." -  Dorothy Dix 

Dreams

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds." - G.K. Chesterton 

Peace

"Each one has to find peace from within. And peace - to be real - must be unaffected by outside circumstances."- Mahatma Gandhi

Joy

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."- Henri J.M. Nouwen 

Patience

"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience." - Benjamin Franklin

Gift of the day

"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth." - Horace 

Moments

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly." - Leo Tolstoy 

Advantages

"To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage." - W. Clement Stone 

Hope

"A leader is a dealer in hope." - Napoléon Bonaparte

Optimism

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." -  Helen Keller

Fountain

‎"Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains." - Paulo Coelho

Focus

"It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of whether you're focused on a castle or a button." - Abraham

Life

Come, Small Planet
I have heard all the whisperings of your lives
The sun has died
The sea has parted
Time and Space

Here Now Unravel
The myths of You

Come, Small Planet
Come out of the cathedral-cave into the world
The blood will stop flowing
The scars will close over
Buffalo and Leaf
Will swoon, and bend
In sacrifice to You

Come, Small Planet
Ripen into the Fruit of the Endless Tree
Let the seed change its shape
Let the bird turn new colours
Milk and Flesh
Fall from the bones and hearts
That long to feed You

Once I was in the Autumn of my life
Soon then facing the winter-death
of my warm water world

I will move through your veil
Bruised, breathe your cold air
And you will consider me Alive

Finally

You might celebrate me

But how gloriously I have lived already.
Do you not remember?
There was no right and no wrong,
No up and no down,
No triumphs and no sufferings
Free of Time and Space

How sadly you celebrate in your garden
An amnesia of bliss awash in flowers

But I will breathe for you
I will Bless you
How you want me to.
I will die a water creature
I will wail
And when I stop frowning,
I will smile again.

But I will not forget My Life
My Death My Life

- Beth Peterson

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Opportunity

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

Love

"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved." - Victor Hugo

Soft Touches

"If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches." - Carolyn Kenmore 

Kindness

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." - Seneca

Dreams

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

Fears

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them." - Brendan Behan 

Fine Persons

"The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence." - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Going

"It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts." - Ella Fitzgerald