Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
When as wood is to the carpenter, bronze to the sculptor, so our own lives are the proper material in the art of living. Epictetus
Justice is what love looks like in public. Cornell WestWholeness happens while we’re fragmented. We are walking incomplete John Paul LederachWhen the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain. Wolfgang HasselmannLife is full of mystery. The mystery is our invitation to let go and to embrace uncertainty with the fullness of our being. This is how hope becomes our bearing. It’s how it becomes our compass in uncertain times. Joe PrimoPerhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path. Katherine WolfThe buffer between hope and despair is gratefulness. Joe PrimoI choose power for the good. I choose to step into my personal power; I am ready, willing and able to step into my personal power and to live a life where I am grounded in my personal power, which I choose to use for the good. Oath of the GrandmothersGratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. Anne LamottWherever you are is the entry point. KabirLife meanders like a path through the woods. We have seasons when we flourish and seasons when the leaves fall from us, revealing our bare bones. Given time, they grow again. Katherine MayI am rewarded to continue doing what I do that helps the world.Sometimes you feel foolish, even look foolish, but you do the thing anyway.Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. RumiEverybody can be great because anybody can serve. Martin Luther King Jr.Don’t let any place that you are standing frighten you.Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. Max ErhmannSee how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun – how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa. Talk softer to yourself.When you are comfortable on your path, it doesn’t matter where it leads.And this is all I can see from the windows – hills, rocks, and sea. The few things I need for comfort – bread, milk, cheese, and wine. I have enough books. I have enough firewood.More behind us than ahead of us. Paths chosen that define us. Enough time left to change.If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change Wayne DyerIn a gentle way, you can shake the world. – Mahatma GandhiExplore your own higher latitudes. ThoreauWhat of my future self is in me right now?My greatest skill has been to want little. Henry David ThoreauIt’s a wonderful freedom, travelingMy heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires – Hazrat Inayat KhanCome forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher. William WordsworthSo Every Day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you. Mary OliverToday, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — RumiCelebrate everything There is always a new miracle around the cornerReading is essential for those who wish to rise above the ordinary. Jim RohnThe spirit is the conscious ear. Emily DickinsonWe need the tonic of the wilderness. ThoreauAll truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. Friedrich NietzscheBe as wild as the wind and shine like the stars I am a living, walking scientist of my lifeTrust thy self: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. Katharine HepburnTraveler, there is no path, the path is made by walking. Antonio MachedKeep chasing your bliss. Keep following that story inside you.The real happiness of life is to enjoy the present without any anxious dependence upon the future. Seneca Life begets life, energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that we become rich. Sarah BernhardtYou don’t know where you’re going. You’re flowing. But if you’re a river, it feels fine to not know where you’re goingI only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out til sundown, for going out I found, was really going in. John MuirWell done is better than well said. Benjamin FranklinWe make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. Winston ChurchillLook deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. Albert EinsteinWe need to become more comfortable with waiting to fill what’s empty with what’s authenticWhen you don’t know what to do, my best advice is to do nothing until clarity comes. Getting still, being able to hear your own voice and not the voices of the world, quickens clarity. Oprah WinfreySalt water is the cure for everything - sweat, tears or the sea.A woman’s place is anywhere she jolly well wants to go. Harriet Chalmers Adams I want to be all used up when I die. George Bernard ShawSuccess seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. William Feather I choose to sow seeds of joy and peace in the lives of everyone I meet.Your purpose is to help us render this great work together. And we’re waiting and excited for you to show up!Forgive yourself for not loving all of who you are
And I found good within myself, and I loved her fiercely.
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter.
