Drowning

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. Paulo Coelho

Seek

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.  Rumi

Words

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain

Peace

You cannot have peace in your outer life unless and until you have first established peace in your inner life. It is in the inner world that everything starts. Sri Chinmoy

Starting

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein

A Philosophy

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say about me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier. Anthony Hopkins

Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman

Time

 The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore

Problems

We all have problems. The way we solve them is what makes us different. Unknown

Living in the Present

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this. Henry David Thoreau

Strength

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi

Love and Fear

An old man sits on a granite step. He plucks a treasured guitar. The strings throb with feeling; He needs no audience to open his heart. Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Marianne Williamson

Believe

Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt

Mysteries

One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Albert Einstein

Anticipation

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. Herodotus

Decisions

Every day, you must make decisions. Everything you do will have irrevocable effects upon your life. Before you go down any path, consider carefully. Rivers rarely reverse course. Tao

Courage

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. Clare Boothe Luce

Happily Ever After

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. Margaret Bonano

Old Habits

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'. Wayne Dyer

Simplicity

Keep your life simple because the more you get, the more complicated it becomes. Joe Coyhis

Journey

We’re still not where we’re going, but we’re not where we were. Natasha Jasefowitz

Folly

Come, let us give a little time to folly… and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure. Saint Bonaventura

Hope

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. George Weinberg

Sweetness

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. Rumi

Difficult Times

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. Isak Dinesen

Rich

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

Best We Can

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or the life of another.—Helen Keller

Greatest Good

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli

Growing

Most of us reach adulthood with leftover pain no person could ever fix. We learn grown up responses by accepting our load of pain and by asking others for help. Intimacy and companionship reduce the weight. We tell our friends about our burdens, and we learn what they are carrying. In the process we grow in wisdom and maturity. Unknown

Very Special Favor

God wants from me a very special favor: He wants me to teach my mind how to smile all the time. Sri Chinmoy

Limits

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus; and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee