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

Goodness

"Goodness is the only investment which never fails."

- Henry David Thoreau

Approval

"To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. 

Like all judgment, approval encourages a constant striving. 

It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. 

Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. 

It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. 

Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it."

- Rachel Naomi Remen

Who you are

"Stop being who you were and become who you are." - Paulo Coelho

Grey Skies

"Grey skies are just clouds passing over." - Duke Ellington

Beauty

"If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset." - Krishnamurti

Safe

"Try imagining a place where it's always safe and warm. 'Come in,' she said, 'I'll give you shelter from the storm.'" - Bob Dylan 

Friend

"A good friend is a connection to life -- a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world." - Lois Wyse 

Patient

"If the person you're talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear." -  Winnie the Pooh 

Give Up

"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be." - Albert Einstein

Difference

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James 

Possible

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!" - Audrey Hepburn 

Fail

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all -- in which case, you fail by default." - J.K. Rowling 

Attitude

"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us." - Earl Nightingale 

Behavior

"Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life." - Author Unknown 

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