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

http://www.h-u-m-a-n.net/art-14_humanbookoneebook

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

Change

"Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else." - Oprah Winfrey

Courage

"The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are." - Debbie Ford 

Angry

"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot." - Plato 

Beauty

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." - Khalil Gibran 

Desire

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat." - Napoleon Hill 

Outstanding

"Live your life as if you were already the outstanding person that you intend to be sometime in the future." - Brian Tracy 

Judge

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa

Commit

"The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help." - Napoleon Hill 

Now

"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow." - W. E. B. Du Bois

Happy

"If you ask the mystic why he or she is happy, the answer will be, 'why not?'" - Anthony De Mello 

love

"When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be." - Leo Tolstoy 

Heart

"The heart is like a garden. It can grow ... Compassion or fear ... Resentment or love ... What seeds will you plant there?" - Buddha 

You are loved

"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with." - Michael Jackson 

Believe

"If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today." - Thich Nhat Hanh 

Feel

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

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 

Love

"Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good." - Petrarch 

Thankfulness

"Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives." - Jalal al-Din Rumi 

You

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Life

"Your life is your garden and your thoughts are your seeds, so if your life isn't awesome you've been watering the weeds." - Terry Prince 

Criticize

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes." - Frieda Norris 

Believe

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles." - Audrey Hepburn

Learn

"Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will." - Vernon Howard