"If you're attached to the thought that someone hurt you, you're bound to experience the hurt. Only in releasing them will you be released".
-- Marianne Williamson

For years I rushed around being busy and I missed me.
~ Fr Leo

"Authentic purpose is not a deep dark secret that you must struggle to discover. Allow it, & purpose will find you where you are".
~ Ralph Marston

If you feel like you're stuck, in many ways that's a positive sign. It means you're eager to get moving.
~ ralph marston

"Often, the effort spent avoiding a difficult challenge is more demanding and burdensome than the challenge itself".
-- Ralph Marston

"Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic."
-- Dale Carnegie

"We have 3 bodies, physical, mental, spiritual. The physical reflects being, the mental knowing, and the spiritual our joyous creativity".
-- Deepak Choprah

"Never worry about the future. The right response to every situation is built into your nature".
-- Deepak Choprah

"My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding that I receive".
~ Bill W.

"To see ourself in everybody and everybody in ourself most certainly is love."
-- Deepak Choprah

"Every heart has it's secret sorrows
Which the world knows not,
Often time we call a man cold

When he is only sad".

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul".
- Yiddish proverb

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us".
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."
-Ralph Marston

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it".
~ M. Scott Peck

"(This is also my definition of procrastination.)"
~ Scott Woodard

“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.”
-- Leon Bloy

"You don't need anyone's permission to feel great. In fact, you don't need anything other than to simply let yourself do it".
-- Ralph Marston

"Absolutely, collectively, everyone in Manhattan wants to rule the world! I think that’s why most of them moved here. They won’t rule the world but they may rule a bit of it, and they may have the feeling at the end of their life that they did rule it".
-- Quentin Crisp

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it”
-- Old Adage

"It is far more useful to be aware of a single shortcoming in ourselves than it is to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. For when the fault is our own, we are in a position to correct it."
-- The Dalai Lama

"This moment. Right now. Release all else but love".
-- Marianne Williamson

"You were born not to hide but to live, so do it every day".
-- Ralph Marston

"At the end of every storm is calm. At the end of every argument is silence. At the end of one relationship there is another. Although life is composed of many endings, there are just as many new beginnings".
~ Hazelden

"All is well. Out of this situation only good will come, and I am safe."

- Louise L. Hay

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

"The journey doesn't stop, you may reach certain parts of your destination... If you were to ask me the best thing that ever happened in my life, I don't think it's happened yet..."
-- Yusuf Islam, formerly Cat Stevens

"Whatever you desire is already connected in some way to who you are and what you now have. Find that way, follow the connection."
~ Ralph Marston

"Spirit is beyond the void of space. This realm beyond the void, is not an empty nothingness; it is the womb of creation".
-- Deepak Chopra

"To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness."
- Malcolm Forbes

"Decide today that you'll have no complaints. And your thoughts can be focused on creative, productive pursuits."
-- ralph marston

"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light".
~ Albert Schweitzer

"Learn to love the flaws that you see within yourself as they are often the unique characteristics that other people love most about you."
~~ Janelle Johnston

"Free yourself from your burdens by stepping up and doing something positive about them right now".
-- Ralph Marston

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
-- Muhammad Ali

"It is useful to pay attention to details but it is dangerous be ruled by them."
~ Ralph Marston

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."
-Henry Ford

"How you treat me is your karma, how I react is mine".

-- Unknown

"Point all your actions, large and small, important and seemingly insignificant, in the direction you wish to see your life move. Time will combine all those actions into an increasingly powerful set of results, and now is when you can choose those results".

~ Ralph Marston

"It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions."
-- Tony Robbins

"Better to trust and be disappointed once in a while, than it is to distrust & be miserable all the time"
~~ Coach John Wooden

"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
~~ eubie blake; on his 100th birthday

"All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs..what belief have you held on to that has out lived its usefulness in your life?"
-- Tony Robbins

"Let go of anger - it is an acid that burns away the delicate layers of your happiness."
~~ Anonymous

"Have the courage to act instead of react."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
-- Kurt Cobain

"Your destiny is in your hands and don't you forget that."
-- President Barack Obama

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
-- Moliere

"My Intent this week is to be sensitive to the thoughts and feelings of all those I come into contact with".
-- Deepak Choprah

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."
-- Wayne Dyer

"True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
-- Winston Churchill

"It's always too early to quit."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals."
-- Brian Tracy

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
-- Aldous Huxley

"Goals help you channel your energy into action."
~~ Les Brown

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is."
~~ Donald Trump

"Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized."
-- Leo Buscaglia

"Everything you do is infused with the consciousness with which you do it. What you do is not as important as how you do it".
-- Marianne Williamson, (on Twitter 08/10/09)

"Fear is active on the planet, but remember that SO IS LOVE. In every moment, download your assignment for how YOU can further its progress".
-- Marianne Williamson, on Twitter (8/10/2009)

"You cant be mad and eat a cupcake."
-- Alec Mapa, in a FaceBook update

"Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life".
~~ Sanskrit poem

"Hurry and busyness are forms of self-will. Deluded by an exaggerated sense of our own importance, we deem it crucial to perform all tasks and activities according to our personal schedule. Impatient with traffic tie-ups, other people's slowness, or unavoidable delays, we make ourselves tense and miserable by our refusal to accept life as it comes".

~ Food for Thought

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

-- Buddha

"The smallest positive action can overcome the biggest negative doubt".
~~ Ralph Marston

"All you have to do is look for the best in that person, and then show it to them, right then and there. Describe it. Admire it. Thank them for it".

-- Neale Donald Walsch

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all".
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

"... It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference".
-- Tom Brokaw

"A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there."
~~ H. Stanley Judd

"Walk lightly through life."

~~ Guy Finley

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis."
-- Margaret Bonnano

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."

~Amelia Earhart

"You become the average of the five people you associate with most."
-- Jim Rohn

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
-- Aristotle

"Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin."

~~ Grace Hansen

"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