Blessed

"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting." - Elizabeth Bibesco 

Dreams

"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream." - Lao Tzu

Gratitude

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it, is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward

Want

"Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, "What do I really, really, really want?" You have to say "really, really, really," otherwise you may not believe it." - Elizabeth Gilbert

Love

"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving." - Khalil Gibran

Feel

I will fight my battle 

and I will feel pain 

and I will have no loss 

and I will remain 

and I will stand proud 

and I will be strong 

and I will shed my light 

and I will sing my song 

and I will win 

and I will cry 

and I will spread my wings 

and I will fly 

Keith Perks

Love

"There is a comfort in the strength of love; 

'T will make a thing endurable, which else 

Would overset the brain, or break the heart. . . .” 
- William Wordsworth

Growth

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Gratitude

"The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for." - Zig Ziglar 

Worrying

"Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want." - Abraham 

Gratitude

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie

Happy thoughts

"Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face." - Norman Vincent Peale 

Lover

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." - Eden Ahbez 

Lover

Like birdsong beginning inside the egg.
Like this universe coming into existence.

The lover wakes, and whirls
in a dancing joy
then kneels down
in praise.

—Rumi

Friend

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive - and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." - Anais Nin

Cherish

"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow all delightful conditions." - James Allen

Goodness

"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are: goodness, beauty, and truth. " - Albert Einstein 

Gratitude

"Gratitude is the sweet fragrance of an opening heart." - Aine Belton

Hero

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve 

Open

"The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you -- you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart." - Cheryl Richardson 

Tranquility

"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame." - Thomas á Kempis 

Fear

"The one who fears something the most is the one who has it most activated in their vibration. And so, it is logical that they would experience it." - Abraham 

Love

"Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a lover truly knows that he is loved." - Rabindranath Tagore

People

"Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire." - Napoleon Hill 

Desire

"Desire is the beginning of all new Creation." - Abraham 

Happiness

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness

"On the wings of forgiveness, is carried all other wisdom." - Honey Judith Rubin 

Gratitude

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures" - Thornton Wilder 

Strong

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda

Godliness

“Godliness is alive when you are alive. If you are not alive, how can your godliness be alive? Your godliness is yours. If you are dead, your godliness is dead; if you are alive, your godliness is alive. Your godliness cannot be more than you, because your godliness is your innermost core of being. So if you want to know what godliness is, become more alive. If you want to know what godliness is, become more divine. If you want to know what godliness is, then don’t try to know – try to feel. It comes through the door of the heart." - Osho 

Appreciation

"Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on." - Doc Childre and Sara Paddison 

Optimism

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." - Nicholas Murray Butler 

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 

Change

"Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs." - Napoleon Hill 

Own

"Few is the number of those who think with their own mind and feel with their own heart." - Albert Einstein 

Loving thought

"Instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend—that would be giving as the angels give." - George MacDonald 

Compassion

"If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace." - Eckhart Tolle

Wisdom

"Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates 

Intelligent

"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Beginning

"Every ending is simply a new beginning. Nothing ends, nothing. All is a beginning. Welcome to the new now." - Author Unknown

Gratitude

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melodie Beattie

Failure

"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost." - Helen Keller 

Belief

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." - Claude M. Bristol

Angry

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." - Aristotle 

Questioning

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein 

Forgiveness

"Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time."
Sara Paddison

Nature

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein

Daily Life

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all." - Kahlil Gibran 

Laughter

"Laughter is an instant vacation." - Milton Berle 

human

"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility." - Vaclav Havel