Mirror

"The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are." - Thomas Dreier

River

"We are River people. We cannot hurry the river. We have to move with its current and understand its ways." - Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann

Smile

"Every time you smile at someone,
  it is an action of love,
   a gift to that person,
     a beautiful thing."

- Mother Teresa

Dreams

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage

"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity" - Keshavan Nair

What you think

"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." - Denis Waitley

Do

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lou Holtz

Follow your heart

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, 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

Focusing the Heart

"Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart" - Rumi

Thoughts

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far." - Swami Vivekananda

Kindness

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu

Knowing yourself

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true

wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is

true power." - Lao-Tzu

Compete against Yourself

"The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself." - Billy Mills 

Cups

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out" - Ray Bradbury

Live

"Are you happy with yourself?
Are you doing what you like?
Gather courage and live the life you please.
Life belongs to those who dare to live." - Unknown

Selfish Nature

"You are uplifters to the core of your being. Part of your selfish nature is to revel in what feels good, and spread it so others may find it too." - Abraham-Hicks

Success

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they are to success before they gave up" - Thomas Edison

Your World

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha

Opportunities

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery guided by a private chart of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitude

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them" - Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands

Attitude

"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking." - David J. Schwartz

Lucky

"We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel" - Tim Rice

Dare

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult." - Seneca 

Each Day

"Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success." - Louisa May Alcott

Future

"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open."- Lillian Smith

Live

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

Beauty

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka

Water

"Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!" - Kabir

The best day

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Feel Good

"It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher." - Joe Vitale

Perfectly Placed

"If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that

is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed,

in exactly the right position . . . to make all the difference

in the world." - James Redfield, from: The Tenth Insight

Distance

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us" - Charles De Gaulle

Forward

"He who moves not forward, goes backward" - Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common" - Ralph Waldo Emmerson

I believe I can fly

"I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
I believe I can soar
I see me running through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly"
 - R Kelly

Life

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

Dance

Dance, Lalla, with nothing on
but air. Sing, Lalla,
wearing the sky.

Look at this glowing day! What clothes
could be so beautiful, or
more sacred?

—Lalla, from: Naked Song

Light

"Each time you remember the Truth of who you are, You bring more light into the world." - Unknown

Dreams

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes