"Is the life I'm living the life that wants to live in me?"

-- Parker Palmer

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. -- Albert Schweitzer

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. -- Tracy Chapman

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. 

~e.e. cummings

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

Stephen King

"If I had one gift that I could give you, my friend, it would be the ability to see yourself as others see you, because only then would you know how extremely special you are." 


~ B.A.Billingsly ~

"Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature"

~ Gerard De Nerval

‎"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind." 
~ W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."
~ Oprah Winfrey

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles; it empties today of its strength.

Mary Engelbreit

Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. 

~ Swedish Proverb

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.  Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

~ Dalai Lama

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

~ William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

"It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others."

—Marianne Williamson (Our Greatest Fear from the book "Return To Love", 1992)

“A human being is part of a whole called by us ‘the 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 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 (1879-1955)

"It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
Kahlil Gibran

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy, a whole heart, and a free mind."

(Pearl S. Buck)

"The air smelled of sun-warmed bark and apple buds raring to blossom and get on with life.  Overhead, a million baby leaves danced in the breeze."

Kathy Reichs

"It is sometimes a mistake to make the climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you climb, you can either succeed or fall. But there is a third option: Sometimes when you fall, you find out you can fly."
 –NG
(via Benjamin LaBrot, founder of Floating Doctors)

"The triumph of anything is a matter of organization."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.