Thought for Today - Cheerfulness

"The one who possesses cheerfulness becomes like a magnet of goodwill." ~Thought for Today-UK

Alice in Wonderland - flowers

"You can learn a lot of things from the flowers." ~from the movie Alice in Wonderland

Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh

"Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment."

"Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more." ~

"Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive." ~

"Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." ~

"People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore." ~

"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"To be loved means to be recognized as existing." ~

"We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality." ~

"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?" ~

Quotes on Happiness

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." ~Aristotle

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us." ~Ashley Montagu

"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." ~Jaques Prevert

"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats." ~Iris Murdoch

"The only joy in the world is to begin." ~Cesare Pavese

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis." ~Margaret Bonanno

"The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight." ~Epictetus

"Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life." ~Marcus Aurelius

"I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully." — Anna Howard Shaw

Lou Holtz Quotes

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." ~Lou Holtz

"Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by." ~Lou Holtz

"When all is said and done, more is said than done." ~Lou Holtz

Vaclev Havel - conviction

"It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out." ~Vaclev Havel, Former Czech President

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross - specific purpose

"You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose." ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Elizabeth Lesser -prayer

"Prayer is like a conversation between friends separated across time and space." ~Elizabeth Lesser

Amy Bloom Quotes

"Change is as inevitable as rain in the spring. Some of us just put on our raincoats and splash forward." ~Amy Bloom

"Our capacity to love is not limited; time is a constraint and so is energy, but love that makes your life better gives you more of what you need." ~Amy Bloom

Oscar Wilde Quotes

"A different language is a different vision of life." ~Oscar Wilde

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." ~Oscar Wilde

“A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.” ~Oscar Wilde

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." ~Oscar Wilde

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." ~Oscar Wilde

“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding” ~Oscar Wilde

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise" ~Oscar Wilde

Jim Rohn Quotes

"By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free." ~Jim Rohn

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." ~Jim Rohn

"No one else "makes us angry." We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude to a test." ~Jim Rohn

"Successful people engage that creative part of their minds and ask, "Well, I wonder how else I can look at this problem? I wonder how else I could deal with this decision? I wonder what other possibilities I have there?" ~Jim Rohn

William Shakespeare Quotes

"God, the best maker of all marriages,Combine your hearts in one." ~William Shakespeare

"Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?" ~William Shakespeare

"Love comforteth like sunshine and rain." ~William Shakespeare

"This above all, to thine own self be true." ~William Shakespeare

Derreck Kayongo - idea

"It's not good enough for us to complain about what other people aren't doing for us. It's important that we all band together, think of an idea and pursue it." ~Derreck Kayongo

Eli Khamarov - expectations

"The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations." ~Eli Khamarov

George E. P. Box - models

"All models are false but some are useful." ~George E. P. Box

AskDivineMother - heart

"I want you to come out of the thinking mind and into the heart. This is where your intelligence is. The Infinite Intelligence is in your heart." ~AskDivineMother

Peter Ustinov - Love

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." ~Peter Ustinov

Thornton Wilder

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." ~Thornton Wilder

Tenzin Gyatso - Laws of Reasoning

"The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not." ~His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso

David Whyte - Well

"A well, a place where the water springs eternal all year round, is a very real, blessed place to stop and think." ~David Whyte

Thought for Today - True Greatness

"The one who can adjust to any situation with humility possesses true greatness." ~Thought for Today-UK

Gaston Bachelard - home

"One of the beautiful things about a home is that it is a place where you can dream about your future, and that a good home protects your dreams; it is a place where you feel sheltered enough to risk yourself in the world." ~Gaston Bachelard

David Hawkins - humility

"A universal characteristic of genius is humility." ~David Hawkins

Sophia Loren - mother

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child." ~Sophia Loren

Andy Rooney - child in your arms

"Having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world." ~Andy Rooney

Claude Brown - Land

"For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?" ~Claude Brown

Zaldy V. Galletes - giving and receiving

"You will never know the real feeling of receiving without experiencing the real reason of giving." ~Zaldy V. Galletes

Matthew Arnold - be thyself

"Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery." ~ Matthew Arnold

Nietzsche - heart

"One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head, too." ~Nietzsche

Mark Epstein - desire

"We fear desire because it can loose us from our moorings, but we need desire because it lets us know who we are." ~Mark Epstein, MD

P.D. Ouspensky - life

"It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning." ~P.D. Ouspensky

Helen Fisher - open heart

"To those who are jaded about finding a mate, clichéd as it may sound, I urge you to keep an open heart." ~Helen Fisher, Anthropologist

Liel Kolet - child

"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child." ~Liel Kolet

Nurse Arlene - figment of imagination

"A lot of postpartum women fall into a delusional state by believing that they've lost some weight since delivery simply because their clothes feel "a bit looser". However, reality sucks in when you go to the shop to buy a new set of wardrobe because you "deserve" a new line of fashion since your weight loss only to find out that the supposed shedding of kilogram was all but a figment of your imagination." ~Nurse Arlene

Connie Willis - choir

"It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a choir." ~Connie Willis

Adelle Davis

“We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.” ~Adelle Davis

Lise Funderburg - reflection

"I no longer look at every reflection of myself and see a map of disappointments. I see vigor, curves and force, an organic tumble of sensual, sexual energy. I stand straighter. I breathe deeper. My heart opens.” ~Lise Funderburg

Ralph W. Sockman - knowledge of wonder

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." ~Ralph W. Sockman

Alex Tan - wash with tears

"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again." ~Alex Tan

Benjamin Disraeli - mother of truth

"When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth." ~Benjamin Disraeli

Albert Einstein Quotes

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." ~Albert Einstein

"A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change through out the years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them just as you remember them. That is why I think a photograph can be kind." ~Albert Einstein

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves." ~Albert Einstein

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." ~Albert Einstein

"Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better." ~Albert Einstein

"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." ~Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. ~Albert Einstein

"To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self." ~Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." ~Albert Einstein

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." ~Albert Einstein

"...we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things we create in common" ~Albert Einstein

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." ~Albert Einstein

"When the solution is simple, God is answering." ~Albert Einstein

Cliff Robertson - place of hopes and dreams

"There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean the grime of life, a place that waits for us to stay and look inside that we might see the truth." ~Cliff Robertson

Martin Luther King Jr. - circumstances

"We need a qualitative shift in our souls as well as a quantitative shift in our circumstances." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Steven Wright - distance

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." ~Steven Wright

Buddha Quotes

"What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now." ~Buddha -

"With our thoughts we make the world." ~Buddha

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." ~Buddha

Tom Robbins - perfect love

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." ~Tom Robbins

George Bernard Shaw Quotes

"As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

“The great secret…is not having bad manners or good manners…but having the same manner for all human souls.” ~George Bernard Shaw

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." ~George Bernard Shaw

"This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." ~George Bernard Shaw

Tambra Barillo -

"Those around you will know that you are for peace, not just through good intentions but by the way you conduct your life on a daily basis." ~Tambra Barillo

Charles Swindoll

"Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit." ~Charles Swindoll

Robert H. Shaffer - candles to lit

"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit." ~Robert H. Shaffer

Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will." ~Henri Frederic Amiel

"Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you." ~Henri Frederic Amiel

Kyle Schmidt - feelings

"I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it." ~Kyle Schmidt

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." ~

"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill." ~Mahatma Gandhi on Killing

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." ~

"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking." ~

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

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~Mahatma Gandhi

Joha - sky is blue

"You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere" ~Joha

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people" ~

"Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow." ~

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help." ~

"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe"~

"Let's "greet this day with a forgiving spirit!" ~Abraham Lincoln

“People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”" ~Abraham Lincoln


"This nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."~Abraham Lincolm

~Abraham Lincoln

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes

"Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates." ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"In my world all is well." ~Sri Nisargadatta

Derreck Kayongo

"It's not good enough for us to complain about what other people aren't doing for us. It's important that we all band together, think of an idea and pursue it." ~Derreck Kayongo -

Christopher P. Cranch - spirits

"We are spirits clad in veils." ~Christopher P. Cranch

Anatole France Quotes

"Change is the essence of life." ~Anatole France

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." ~Anatole France

Lauren Hutton -

"I just try to do my best to look good—get enough sleep, stay healthy, have fun with makeup—then forget about it! If you obsess about your looks, it kills your spirit." ~Lauren Hutton

Ann Landers - humanity

"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most important piece of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'" ~Ann Landers

Oscar de la Renta - Thank You

"Every morning when I come out from my bedroom, I look outside and say, 'God, thank you.'" ~Oscar de la Renta, Fashion Designer

Thomas Jefferson - attitude

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude." ~Thomas Jefferson

Swami Vivekananda - wrong path

"On a day when you don't come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling down the wrong path." ~Swami Vivekananda

Djamellah Occena - being honest

"Being vocal sometimes puts you in trouble but being honest is more important and stressful free." ~Djamellah Occena, FB

Sarah Ban Breathnach - Thank You

"When our hearts are broken, we don't think we have much to be thankful for. We don't have to be smiling when we say 'Thank you.'" ~Sarah

Rumi Quotes

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." ~Rumi

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." ~Rumi

Yehuda Amichai - hiding

"Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding." ~Yehuda Amichai

Wislawa Szymborska - book of events

"Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle." ~Wislawa Szymborska

Theodore Roethke - mysteries

"Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries." ~Theodore Roethke

Nigella Lawson

"I think what ages a face most is disappointment and a lack of enjoyment. So I try to do what I love." ~Nigella Lawson, celebrity chef

Sylvia Boorstein - deep breath

"If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible drama of life is happening. And we're in it!" ~Sylvia Boorstein, from Words That Matter

William Winston - made stronger in time

"True love is built and made stronger with time." ~ William Winston

Suze Orman

"The first step in starting over is standing up for your rights. " ~Suze Orman

Madeleine L'Engle - ;pve

"Oh, I love I love I love! I cried inside myself. So many people, so many things! Music and stars and snow and weather! Oh, if one could always feel this warm love, this excitement, this glory of the infinite possibilities of life!" ~Madeleine L'Engle from Camilla

Deniz Inan - parents

"My parents are the lights which guide me in my life all the time." ~Deniz Inan

Dr Robin Smith - own will

"Give yourself the gift of being your own mother and saying yes to your own will, yes to you own wishes, yes to your own longings. Then, follow that path." ~Dr Robin Smith

Dr Robin Smith - mind and perspective

"Being outside—getting oxygen in your lungs—actually changes not just your body, it can begin to change your mind and your perspective." ~Dr Robin Smith

Ram Dass - ego

"Your ego has all these wants. Your soul has only one want. It wants to get to merge with the Lover. Merge with the One." ~~Ram Dass

Jill Ciment - dying sun

"It is the hour when the light over the sink, a fluorescent meant for washing dishes, suddenly usurps the fire of the dying sun." ~Jill Ciment, Heroic Measures

Eckhart Tolle Quotes

"Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is untouched by time." ~Eckhart Tolle

"If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace." ~Eckhart Tolle

"Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on." ~Eckhart Tolle

"Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found." ~Eckhart Tolle

Elizabeth Kadetsky - achieve much

"You achieve much once you stop telling yourself you can't do things." ~Elizabeth Kadetsky

Dr. Katz - meals

"Slow the pace of your meals. Pay attention to what you're eating. After a pause, you'll likely find that 'mostly full' is full enough." ~Dr. Katz

Christina Rossetti - heart's core

"Rest, rest at the heart's core. Till joy shall overtake " ~Christina Rossetti

Nancy Astor - basic beauty

"Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life." ~Nancy Astor

Mary Chase - different person

"It's quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person — beguiled, enchanted." ~Mary Chase, playwright

James Baldwin Quotes

"A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it." ~ James Baldwin

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." ~James Baldwin

Dr Susan Shumsky - purpose of life

"The purpose of your life is to merge fully with the presence of God. That is your only priority and your only goal." ~Dr Susan Shumsky

St Bernard de Clairvaux - restng place

"We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us." ~St Bernard de Clairvaux

Lemieux - art of living

"The art of living can be observed, and thereby taught" ~Lemieux

Muhammad - night garment

"Do you not see how he has lengthened the shadows The One is he who made the night a garment for you." ~Muhammad

Dr Susan Shumsky - miracle, blessing, joy

"Every moment is a miracle. Every breath is a blessing. Every day is an opportunity for joy." ~Dr Susan Shumsky

James Dean - dream

 "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." ~ James Dean:

Anon - without love

"Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house."  ~Anon

Will Durant - education

"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance." ~Will Durant on Education

Count Leo Tolstoy

"Conceit is incompatible with understanding." ~Count Leo Tolstoy

Hans Christian Anderson - must have

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." ~Hans Christian Anderson

Havelock Ellis - art to learn

"To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach." ~Havelock Ellis

John Burroughs Quotes

"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did." ~John Burroughs

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.” ~John Burroughs

"To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday." ~John Burroughs

Bernoulli - nature

"Nature always tends to act in the simplest way." ~Bernoulli

Kat James - beauty

"Our beauty never forgets its essence." ~Kat James

Jules Renard - hourglass

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties." ~Jules renard.

Brian Tracy

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." ~Brian Tracy~

Leo Burnett - swear off

"To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas." ~Leo Burnett

John H. Miller - attitude

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens." ~John H. Miller

Annie Dillard - how

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." ~Annie Dillard

Lord Chesterfield - pocket watch

"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked." ~Lord Chesterfield

John Jakes - every piece

"Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish." ~John Jakes

Geneen Roth - core beliefs

"The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning and transformation." ~Geneen Roth

Marcus Buckingham - energizing moments

"You can find energizing moments in each aspect of your life, but to do so you must learn how to catch them, hold on to them, to feel the pull of their weight and allow yourself to follow where they lead." ~Marcus Buckingham

Tom Bodett - laughs to forget

"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh." ~Tom Bodett

Arnold Schopenhauer Quotes

"Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control." ~Arnold Schopenhauer

"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character." ~Arthur Schopenhauer

Lao-Tse

"By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever." ~Lao-Tse

Dr Susan Shumsky - child of God

You are a beloved child of God. You are never alone. You are filled with the light of God's love. Be at peace.

David Russell - bridge to cross

"The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn." ~David Russell

William James Quotes

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact." ~William James

"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit." ~William James

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." ~William James

"Wherever you are it is your friends who make your world." ~James, William

George Barkouras - neurosis

"Neurosis is attractive, but health is irresistible" ~George Barkouras

Leah Dancel Quotes

"Motherhood is an exhilarating experience for me. I can't trade it for anything else. Never mind the setbacks and drawbacks. They add colour to the meaning of life".~@lcd, 6 May, 2009, my response to Rosidah's comment.

"I would love to see the United Kingdom where nature is rich in splendour of green and beauty untarnished; divinely sketched." ~Leah Dancel, 9 June 2009

"Dahlias are one of those garden delights that have soft and delicate petals yet beautifully layered by nature and arrayed with multiple colours to attract helpful visitors such as bees who are free to please themselves." ~Leah Dancel, 26 Oct 2009 comment to This is My Blog.

"Death that brings sorrow only happens on earth
But life everlasting brings far more endless mirth." ~Leah Dancel, 3 June 2011
(Comment on Parents Goodbye by Marvin H Lee at The Rhyming Place)

"There's always a way to find life interesting." ~Leah Dancel, 16 June 2011

Standing Bear - man's heart

"Man's heart away from nature becomes hard." ~Standing Bear

Kahlil Gibran Quotes

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." ~Kahlil Gibran

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed". ~Kahlil Gibran

"It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." ~Kahlil Gibran

"It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." ~Kahlil Gibran

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." ~Kahlil Gibran

“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;

For love is sufficient unto love.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." ~Kahlil Gibran

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you YOUR ALL.” ~Kahlil Gibran

Phil McGraw - teach people

"You teach people how to treat you." ~Phil McGraw

Mark Twain Quotes

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." ~Mark Twain

"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul." ~Mark Twain

“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure” ~Mark Twain

"To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble." ~Mark Twain

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." ~Mark Twain"

Ursula K. Le Guin - love like bread

"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new." ~Ursula K. Le Guin

Leo Buscaglia - learning and growing

"Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love." ~Leo Buscaglia

William C. Bryant - virtue

"Remorse is virtue’s root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness." ~William C. Bryant

Rob Williams - peace and happiness

"Finding peace and happiness doesn't depend on getting rid of all conflicts and problems in life rather, finding peace and happiness depends on learning how to deal with those problems and conflicts and knowing how to rise above them to enjoy the good things." ~Rob Williams

Dena DiIaconi - precious gift

"No one knows the mysteries of life or its ultimate meaning, but for those who are willing to believe in their dreams and in themselves, life is a precious gift in which anything is possible." ~Dena DiIaconi

Jules Verne - sea

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides." ~Jules Verne

Vincent Thomas Lombardi - believe in yourself

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." ~Vincent Thomas Lombardi