Secret

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles Schulz

Growth

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. Washington Carver

Wisdom

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. Rumi

Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life

Build your life brick upon brick. Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion. Tao

Safe Boundaries

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. Unknown

Love

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Obligation

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. Albert Einstein

Peace

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa

Courage

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist

Country and Religion

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine

Thoughts

Let a man (or woman) strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he; this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness. Upanishads

Compassion

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival. Dalai Lama

Insecurity

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

Adjust

You cannot direct which way the winds of adversity will blow, but you can adjust your sails. Shantidasa

Gratitude

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur Ward

Hang On

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Thomas Jefferson

Life

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings. Krishnamurti

Worry

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. Arthur Somers Roche

A Friend

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand, but touches your heart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I Love You's

There are never enough 'I love you's.” Lenny Bruce

Kind Gesture

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. Steve Maraboli

Borrowed

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed - borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves. Osho 

Be Kind

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

Calmness

Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. Shunryu Suzuki 

Listen

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments. Frederick Buechner

Living

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde

Gain

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty. Dalai Lama 

Bravery

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. Brené Brown

Free

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. Nelson Mandela

Right Now

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now? Jack Kornfield