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If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
- Doug Floyd

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What if it were only an illusion?
Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.
Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity
is our fear of the future -
our fear of the unknown.
Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Keep a grateful journal. Every night,
list five things you are grateful for.
- Oprah Winfrey

 

Don't dream it, be it.
- the movie Rocky Horror Picture Show

We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Like a bird in flight, your life can soar
above the troubles of the world.
Breathe deep, choose, and break the shackles of your past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible

All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene

May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.
May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.
May your essence be the nectar of the open blossom of your joy.
May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Consider adopting the ongoing practice of zero-based gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground
as you reach for the stars.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy

I argue thee that love is life.
And life hath immortality.
- Emily Dickinson

Yielding is the way of the Tao.
- Lao Tzu

We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure about you.
We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
- Marianne Williamson

Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,
happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
- The Buddha

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Count Your Blessings.
- Og Mandino

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa

Choose to Dance Lightly With Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When life is too easy for us, we must beware
or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A mind at peace, a mind centered
and not focused on harming others,
is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
- Wayne Dyer

The greatest force in the human body
is the natural drive of the body to heal itself -
but that force in not independent of the belief system.
Everything begins with belief.
What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
- Norman Cousins

It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Don't go through life - grow through life.
- Eric Butterworth

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin

The ego lives by comparisons...
The ego cannot survive without judgment.
- A Course in Miracles

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb

We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- The Buddha

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

One service to need heals an ancient wound.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha

Happiness comes when I remember that others' opinions of me
are just their opinions - nothing more.
I find happiness in moving toward my goals
regardless of the applause or the jeers of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
- Saint Bartholomew

I lay aside the battles within my own mind,
and grant myself peace.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

It is always a good day to be grateful for all of life -
grateful for large blessings and small.
Especially to be grateful for the symbolic blessings -
the rainbows and butterflies that come into our lives
when we least expect and most need them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

I'm becoming more and more myself with time.
I guess that's what grace is.
The refinement of your soul through time.
- Jewel

When God closes a door, he opens a window.
- Anonymous

Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower.
Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

In your days - things like this happen to you...
You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake,
and life whispers to you, "I know you're tired -
but I don't want you to miss this."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well
can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

We are each of us angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius

A person without a sense of humor
is like a wagon without springs.
It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha

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