"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
~Mahatma Gandhi
"Who gossips to you will gossip of you."
~Turkish Proverb"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
~Alan Kay
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do." ~Edward Hale"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life
cheerfully have been kindness,
beauty, and truth." ~ Albert Einstein
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." ~ Albert Einstein
"A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold." ~Henry Miller
"A man is but the product of his thoughts.
What he thinks, he becomes."
~Mahatma Gandhi
"Once you choose hope, anything is possible."
~Christopher Reeve
"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle." ~Andre Gide"To forget how to dig the earth and tend
the soil is to forget ourselves."~Mahatma Gandhi"We are completely selfish, let there be no mistake about that. This is our river, this is our waterfall, this is our land."
~Joey Smallwood"Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states." ~Carol Welch"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Happiness is an inside job." ~William Arthur Ward
"You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' " ~George Bernard Shaw
"Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world." ~ Brenda Peterson
'The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of God stands forever.' ~Isaiah
"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
~Dr Martin Luther King Jr."The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." ~ Rachel Carson
"Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance." ~Daniel Goleman
"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
"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
~James Allen"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
~John Ruskin
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." ~Henry Van Dyke
"On all occasions of trial He has saved me. I know that the phrase 'God saved me' has a deeper meaning for me today, and still I feel that I have not yet grasped its entire meaning. Only richer experience can help me to a fuller understanding. "
~ Mahatma Gandhi"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
~Steven Wright
"A dream you dream alone is a dream. The dream you dream together is a reality." ~ Unknown
"The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves." ~Joseph Campbell"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." ~Epictetus
"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." ~Lawrence G. Lovasik
"I touch the future. I teach." ~Christa McAuliffe
"Either you're part of the problem or you're part of the solution or you're just part of the landscape." ~J.D. Zeik"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."
~Leo F. Buscaglia
"We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world." ~Muhammad Yunus
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." ~ Confucius"A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song." ~ Joan Walsh Anglund
"Choose your intention carefully and then practice holding your consciousness to it, so it becomes the guiding light in your life." ~John Roger"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." ~Lao Tzu
"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies… It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it" . ~ Albert Einstein"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." ~Audrey Hepburn
"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." ~Anonymous
"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume." ~ Jean de Boufflers
"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons."
~Ruth Ann Schabacker"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual -- for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost." ~M. Scott Peck
"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me." ~Carl Sandburg
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." ~Henry Miller"We walk in beauty and we blossom in wisdom, we swim in truth and we fly in joy." ~Darina Stoyanova
"People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them. Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower. Attitudes are the real figures of speech." ~Edwin H. Friedman
Life gives more to those people who see most clearly the beauty and value of what they have.
-- Laura Teresa Marquez
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