"pessimism never works"
-- t-shirt

"My goal for you is to teach you some mindfulness skills... So you feel your emotions in a real way, and you observe them. When we're present in 'just this moment', we can cope with just this moment. And however big my emotion is in this moment, if I can observe it and just stay in this moment with it, I can survive it."
-- Erin Olivo, Director, Columbia Integrative Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital.

"Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment."
-- Unknown

"There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so --now -- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it".
-- Abraham - Hicks

"No one can just stop feeling sad when you feel sad. But we can change the way we're thinking about a situation or the way we're behaving in response to a situation. And those two things do actually change how we feel"
-- Erin Olivo, Dir. Columbia Integrative Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital

"And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me".
-- Lee Greenwood

"All I know is that the show's not over until the curtain comes down, the lights go out, and everybody has left the theater."
-- Bob Herbert

"A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat".
-- Katharine Whitehorn

"Lead the least secretive life you can."
-- Susan Shapiro, Lighting Up.

“Sex appeal is 50 percent what you’ve got and 50 percent what people think you’ve got.”
--Sophia Loren

"Genius is self-bestowed; Mediocrity is self-afflicted."
-- Walter Russell

"sometimes i've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-- lewis carroll

"Some take kindness for weakness and they move in like sharks..."
-- Joe Cintron

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
-- Andre Gide

"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."
-- Frances Willard

"Remember to welcome strangers, because some who have done this have welcomed angels without knowing it".
-- Hebrews 13:2

"You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you".
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment - or unlearning - of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts".
-- Marianne Williamson

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."
-- Lee Iacocca 

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
-- Jimi Hendrix