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By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Anais Nin

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

C. S. Lewis

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working.

Pablo Picasso

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama 

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don’t sit looking at it - walk.

Ayn Rand

Time can be slowed if you live deliberately. If you stop and watch sunsets. If you spend time sitting on porches listening to the woods. If you give in to the reality of the seasons.

Thomas Christopher Greene, I’ll Never Be Long Gone: A Novel 

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

Henry van Dyke

American author and educator. (1852-1933)

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

Keith Richards

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

Walt Whitman

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Benjamin Franklin

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Vincent van Gogh

I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Frida Kahlo

Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.

 L. Reid

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese Proverb

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

Albert Camus

love the life you live.live the life you love.

Bob Marley

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Vincent Van Gogh

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your own love and affection.

Buddha

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubenstein

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.

Mooji

There are two core fears: losing what you have, and not getting what you want. There is one solution: Falling in love with where you are.

Jeff Foster

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.

Willie Nelson

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campell

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

William Walsh

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

Paulo Coelho​

I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind - just your heart melting into my heart, no words

Osho

When the power of love overpowers the love of power, the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

Maya Angelou

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

W.P. Kinsella