The Answer

Always we hope someone else has the answer. Some other place will be better, it will all turn out. This is it. No one else has the answer. No other place will be better, and it has already turned out. Lao Tzu

Tranquility

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

Mourning

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. Edmund Burke

Service

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Marion Wright Edelman

Count

If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy. Unknown

Friendship

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving. Osho

Hope

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness. Rumi

Hope

Hope is the physician of each misery. Irish Proverb

The Song

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Henry David Thoreau 

Magic Things

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. W.B. Yeats

Silence

You have spent your whole life with elegant speeches.

For sometime you should walk alone in the gardens of silence. Rumi

Be Yourself

Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. Henry David Thoreau

Character

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.  Helen Keller

Giving

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou

Peace

Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. Marianne Williamson

Attitude

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Charles Swindoll

Jealousy

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. Unknown

Now

Grow from the past, but grab hold of now. Now is always evolving. Rumi

Work

A feeling of aversion or attachment to something is your clue that there's work to be done. Ram Dass

Excuses

Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them. John Wooden

Good Enough

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. Carl Rogers

Mind

A great Tibetan teacher of mind training once remarked that one of the mind’s most marvelous qualities is that it can be transformed. Dalai Lama

Prayer

Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul. Rumi

Bait

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. Friedrich Nietzsche

Love

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert Heinlein

Gentle People

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Garrison Keillor

Home

We're all just walking each other home. Ram Dass

Today

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again! Rumi 

Worry

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. Swedish Proverb

Treasures

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder

Mind

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha

Settled

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meditation

Meditation is painful in the beginning, but it bestows immortal bliss and supreme joy in the end. Swami Sivananda 

Quiet Waters

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. Hans Margolius

Determination

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Solitude

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe. Percival

Success

Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others. Danny Thomas

Preparation

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Thomas Dreier

Kindness

Men are only as great as they are kind. Elbert Hubbard

Love

Love takes off masks that we fear we can't live without and know we can't live within. James Arthur Baldwin

Art

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. don Miguel Ruiz

Friends

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless. Rumi 

Insecurity

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. Steve Furtick

Flow

The meaning of life is to live moment to moment. Just follow the flow of life from childhood to old age. Be born when it is time to be born and die when it is time to die. Zhuang Zi

Suffering

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh

Growing Up

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.  Dag Hammarskjöld

Great Works

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson

Rationalizing

Avoid rationalizing your own errors and mistakes. Because if you rationalize, you protect them. Then they will be repeated. Osho

Ground

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground, be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. Rumi

Ends

There is no end worse than the end of hope. Doug Kelsey