Honorable Life

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time. Dalai Lama

Measure of Health

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Avoiding Reality

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand

Polishing

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? Rumi

Illusion

We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness. Thich Nhat Hanh

Work

If we work in marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. Daniel Webster

Blessings

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Charles Dickens

Apology

Never ruin an apology with an excuse. Kimberly Howard

A Miracle

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke

Patience

I have discovered that patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. Joyce Meyer

Discouraged

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. R. L. Evans

Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know now and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand. Albert Einstein

Within

Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight. Lao Tzu

Communication

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw

Joy and Sorrow

Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Kahlil Gibran

Courage

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires ... courage. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great Mistakes

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. Pearl S. Buck

Keep Going

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Rainer Maria Rilke

Amends

If you have behaved badly, repent; make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Aldous Huxley

Reflections

The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. James Allen

The Past

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again. Osho

Pain

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Kahlil Gibran 

Possibilities

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do. Dale Carnegie

Tolerance

To be tolerant in any situation is to make room for goodness to shine--other people's and your own as well. When people are tolerant, there is time for the splendor of trust to shine forth. Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

Coping

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. Virginia Satir

Courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. Erma Bombeck

Prayer

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Kahlil Gibran

Getting & Giving

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

Free

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free. Rumi

Your Space

Make your space as beautiful as you can, because the Great Spirit chooses where it will dwell, and it always chooses beauty over chaos. Native American saying

Friendship

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt