"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

~~ John Muir

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
-- Maya Angelou

"You have to do it by yourself, And you can't do it alone."
-- Martin Rutte

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."
-- Mark Twain

"Don't follow your dreams; chase them."

-- Richard Dumb

“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”

~~ Robert Schuller

"Things do not change; we change."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."

~ Napoleon Hill

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
-- Dr. Albert Ellis, psychologist. As quoted by Marci Shimoff, in her book Happy for No Reason.

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

-- Dale Carnegie

"Life must be lived as play."

~~ Plato

"Three primary ways to overcome old patterns... 1. Focus on the solution, 2. Look for the lesson and the gift 3. Make peace with yourself."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

~~ Thomas Edison

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
-- J.M. Barrie

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

"If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace."
-- Ajahn Chah as quoted by Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."

~~ Storm Jameson

"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."
-- William Barclay

"Leap and the net will appear."

~ Julia Cameron

"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude... because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions."
-- Deepak Choprah

"We are all of us richer than we think we are."

~~ Michel de Montaigne

"Don't believe everything you think."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."
-- Colette

"We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens."
- Epictetus

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

- Buddha

"Inspiration and genius-one and the same."

~ Victor Hugo

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness habits for the heart: 1. Focus on gratitude, 2. Practice
forgiveness, 3. Spread lovingkindness."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else."
-- Joseph Campbell

"Human beings are more alike than we are un-alike... Try to spread your giving of yourself... to people who may not even look like you. You belong to everybody, and everybody belongs to you."
-- Maya Angelou

"In any challenging scenario, the calmer you remain, the clearer you can
think and the faster you can figure your way out of the problem."
-- Ewan McGregor

"This joy I have - the world didn't give it, the world can't take it away."
-- Shirley Caesar, gospel singer

"Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance."

~~ Unknown

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

~~ Edmund Hillary

"Happiness habits for relationships: 1. Tend to your relationships; 2.
Surround yourself with Support; 3. See the world as your family."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

"To keep the thousands of negative thoughts we have each day from dragging us down, we don't have to get rid of each one of them. There's a simpler way. The secret is in accepting an astonishing fact: You're thoughts aren't always true."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."

~ Napoleon Hill

"Our business is to be happy."
-- Dalai Lama

"The guiding three: Whatever expands you makes you happier, The universe is out to support you, Whatever you appreciate, appreciates."
-- Marci Shimoff, Happy for No Reason

“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”
~~ Friedrich Schiller

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

~~ Buddha

"If you can do one thing you thought was utterly impossible, it causes you to rethink your beliefs."

~~Tony Robbins

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

~~ LAO-TZU

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway"
~~ John Wayne

"There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart"
-- LAO-TZU

"You don't regret what you do, you only regret what you don't do.."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer

“I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.”

~~ Dalai Lama

"Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun."

~~ Kahlil Gibran

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."

~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."

-- Rabindranath Tagore

"There is no security in doing something for a living when you are dying inside while doing it. That is taking care of the body at the expense of the soul. And a

withering soul cannot help but produce a withering body. So do not think you are "taking care of yourself" by killing your spirit to keep your body alive.

"How long will you put off what you are dying to do?"

~~ Neale Donald Walsch

"It's sometimes nice to get everything decided, settled,

and arranged. But you may want to leave room in your

life for spontaneity. Some of the best choices are made

"on the fly." Some of the best outcomes are created

by not needing anything specific to happen.

 

Who and how and why and when and where to love

often falls into this cagtegory".

~~ Neale Donald Walsch

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

~~ James Joyce

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”

-- William S. Burroughs

"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

~~
TS Eliot

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

~~ Al Bernstein

"You only live once. Make sure it's enough."

-- The Most Interesting Man in the World

"If you think you are looking at struggle, struggle is what

you will experience. If you decide that you are looking

at a gift (even if you can't see it clearing in this exact

moment), a gift is what you will get. Just wait. You'll

see. I mean that literally. You will see."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

"Our appointment with life is in the present moment."

~~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"This may be a book that you started, then set aside. Or it may be a text that you have just heard about and that is now calling out to you.

"Whichever it is, listen to the calling. Follow the

impulse. Read the book. Its time is now".

-- Neale Donald Walsch

"The setting side of one's integrity is not required to win

someone's heart, but the setting aside of one's anger

may be. It is possible to make a point without making

an enemy. It is possible to be right without being

righteous. Debating does not have to be debasing.

"If there is someone with whom you are disagreeing this

day, would it not be wonderful of you to disagree

without being disagreeable?"

-- Neale Donald Walsch

"Please do not think that all you are doing here is

living until you die. If that were all that's happening,

God would hardly take time to be involved.

"No, there is something else occurring. It has to do

with the evolution of your soul. Do you want to

know more about that; about how that occurs?

"Why not make it your business today to find out?

~~ Neale Donald Walsch

"Arrange whatever pieces come your way and make it work for you." -- Dr. Wayne Dyer "and make it pretty" -- Alec Mapa

"A smile directed at a stranger, a compliment given to a friend, an attitude of laughter, or a thoughtful gesture can send ripples that spread among your loved ones and associates, out into your community, and finally throughout the world. You have the power to touch the lives of everyone you come into contact with and everyone those people come into contact with. The momentum of your influence will grow as your ripples moves onward and outward. One of those ripples could become a tidal wave of love and kindness".
~~ Daily Om

"We behave according to what we can get away with".
-- Ned Rorem

"Those who don't venture to communicate, believe that they can't because they have no access to the communications media"

-- Yoko Ono, on Twitter 5/23/2009

"You can complain about the same problem three times. Then you'd better be in the solution. If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention".
-- Anonymous

"Look to see how you are spending your day. Are

you accomplishing anything? Is it anything that

matters?

"You have only so much time here. Don't waste it.

If you are really putting in a lot of effort, but not

getting much done that matters, take a look at that.

That's all I'm saying. Take a look."

~~ Neale Donald Walsch

"Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer."

~~ Ernest Holmes

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

~~ Herman Melville

"If you want to reach out for something new, you must first let go of what's in your hand."

-- Sonia Choquette

"I say unto you: One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star".

~~ Nietzsche

“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.”

~~ John Wesley

"Remain calm and be brave!"

-- Quentin Crisp

"I'm glad I'm me. It takes all the pressure off of being someone else".

-- Dave Upton

"Stand your ground... There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way... Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

"It is a curious paradox that being gay is not for sissies".

-- Rick Crom

"You gotta have desire, man!"
-- Anita O'Day, as quoted by James Gavin

"Live and let live."
-- Anonymous

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

-- Pamela Vaull Starr

"The best thing in life is doing things people say you can't do."

-- Jennifer Moore

"A totally different you can emerge from a totally

different idea that you have about yourself. All it takes

is a decision to change your mind about Who You

Are and why you are here...

 

"Perspective is everything. What would it take to

elevate your awareness on this day?  Whatever it

would take, do that. Don't just think about it.  Do it."

-- Neale Donald Walsch

"All of my life I been like a doubled up fist... poundin', smashin', drivin' -- now I'm going to loosen these doubled up hands and touch things easy with them".
~~ Tennessee Williams

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."
~~ Brian Tracy

"Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
~~ Rumi

"Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
~~ Harvey Fierstein

"Somewhere there is something incredible waiting to be known."
~~ Carl Sagan

"All problems are invitations to look deeper and live higher".
~~ Alan Cohen

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength." 

~~ Corrie Ten Boom

"Insist on yourself. Never imitate."
~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Following another's path leads to who they are, not to who you are."
~~ Harry Palmer

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
~~ Henry David Thoreau

"When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment or let the moment define you."  

~~ Tin Cup (Motion Picture)

"There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up."
~~ Bernard Meltzer

"Reach out to others and share with them the love in your heart, the love that can transform a moment of pain to a moment of joy, a day of loneliness to a day of possibility. Love your kids, neighbors, co-workers, public officials, friends and anyone else you can communicate with. Allow the Divine and the love that pulses through your precious and irresistible heart to touch another's life."
-- Debbie Ford

"There is only what serves you, and what does not. The terms "right" and "wrong" are relative terms". 

~~ Meditations from "Conversations with God