Be Content

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have: rejoice in the way things are. Lao Tzu 

Anticipating Trouble

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. Henry Wheeler Shaw

Wonder

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge. Abraham Joshua Heschel

Flowering

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering ~ Osho 

Encouragement

People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be. Scudder N. Parker

Undisturbed Mind

The undisturbed mind is like the calm body of water reflecting the brilliance of the moon.

Yagyu Jubei

Artists

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

Principles

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles. John Powell

Kindness

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu

Right Road

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. Dag Hammarskjold

Trouble

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Jung

Slowing Down

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing. Sharon Salzberg

Service

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. Muhammad Ali 

Meaningful

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day. Dalai Lama

Emotions

Emotions are like waves. Watch them come and go on the vast ocean of existence. Hindu Proverb

Attachment & Aversion

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. Sogyal Rinpoche

Prayer

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

Get Started

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. Mark Victor Hansen

Self Esteem

If you want to gain self esteem, do esteemable acts. Unknown 

Belief

If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles. Wayne Dyer

Turning Point

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the strength within you that survives all the hurt. Unknown

Miracles

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

Stillness

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found. Eckert Tolle 

Limitations

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Richard Bach

Compassion

Compassion is a sense of caring, a sense of concern for others' well-being. Dalai Lama

Gratitude

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. Rabbi Harold Kushner

Suffering

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. Thomas Merton

Growing

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worry

Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job. Hafiz

Awakening

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly. Chögyam Trungpa

Age

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow