5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 31st, 2012

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Be yourself. The world worships the original." - Ingrid Bergman

"Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 30th, 2012

"LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy." - Rumi

"I am a Farmer of the Heart." - Rumi

"I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute." - Maya Angelou

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true." - Robert Brault

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from." - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 29th, 2012

"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more." - Louis L'Amour

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” - Rumi

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, BE IN LOVE.” - Rumi

"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third." - Marge Piercy

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” - Robert Brault

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 28th, 2012

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” - Mother Teresa

"Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody." - Rumi

"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every HEART." - Rumi

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing" - Dale Carnegie

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination
and life to everything." - Plato

Garden of Ninfa, Italy.
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Etretat Cliffs, Normandy, Italy.
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5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 27th, 2012

"Don't take it or yourself too seriously—it's just life. You're allowed to make mistakes, screw things up and fall down (which everyone does and always will). Be kind to yourself in this process. Remember your intentions (those states of being and authentic desires) are what you're truly after, not the specific outcomes or actions." - Mike Robbins


"When you correct your mind, everything else will fall into place." - Lao Tzu

"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives." - Louise Hay

"Maybe you are searching among branches for what only appears in the Roots." - Rumi

“You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are.” - Eckhart Tolle

"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions." - Peace Pilgrim


Siblini, Marche, Italy.
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5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 26th, 2012

"No self-judgment, no self-criticism and no self-dislike allowed today! None of it! You are who you are, and who you are is perfect, just as it is." - Ed and Deb Shapiro

"Write down the area of your life that most needs your attention right now, and then write out the details of your soul's vision for this part of your life. What does it look like? How will achieving your goal change your life? How will it change the lives of those around you? When you reach your goal, when you fulfill that desire, what will you make room for? Take a few minutes to write it all down." - Debbie Ford

"The stuff is like an anchor—you have to hold on to those memories because they are what has made you who you are—but you have to start putting those things in perspective so you can move into life as an adult." - Peter Walsh

"You can have a do-over starting today. But you have to get over the feeling that it's too late." - Jean Chatzky

"Every day is an opportunity to learn something or discover something or someplace. Be curious, play, go out on a limb, walk a different way to work, try a new food at dinner and keep learning and growing." - Sandra Magsamen

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 25th, 2012

"Build on past successes, be grateful for what you do have, and know that this, too, shall pass. It's only for the now. Whatever we're facing, it's not forever." - Dave Pelzer

"When it comes to exploring your creative side, it's very easy to think of all the reasons you can't do it—you don't have the time, you don't have the money, etc.—but if you are truly passionate about expressing yourself, you can find a way. When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning. Take the next step and the next until what you've dreamed about begins to become reality." - Marcus Buckingham

"What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder." - Oprah Winfrey

"This is a day to separate what does work for you from what is no longer needed. Time to toss out old regrets, useless feelings or past resentments." - Ed and Deb Shapiro

"You can use the infectious effects of a grin to jump-start an optimistic outlook in yourself by sending others what you want them to lob back at you. A kind word to the man behind the deli counter can get your day bouncing in the right direction." - Lise Funderburg

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 24th, 2012

"Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities. ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond." - Deepak Chopra

"Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis." - Martha Beck

"Every challenge offers the opportunity to think a new flavor of thought and feel a new flavor of emotion. The more varied the flavors of life you get to taste, the more interesting, layered, educated and world-experienced you'll be. Admittedly, you won't like every flavor. But hey, you don't need to go near that flavor ever again. Instead, indulge in flavors you know you're passionate about! And don't be afraid to taste something that might look funny—you never know!" - Karen Salmansohn

"I know for sure that I don't want to live a shut-down life—desensitized to feeling, seeing and the possibility of experiencing joy on every level. I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible." - Oprah Winfrey

"Find time to reconnect with the woman you used to be—the one your partner fell in love with. Make time for old interests, forgotten girlfriends and grooming rituals. Take long walks through the woods or along the shore. ... Activities such as these recharge your independence and reconnect you to your femininity—things we often lose track of in the stress of day-to-day life." - Dr. Laura Berman

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 23rd, 2012

"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living." - C. G. Jung

"Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others, and to surprise and delight ourselves instead." - Katrina Kenison

"Compared to that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself -
Finite infinity." - Emily Dickinson

"Whenever you're tempted to dwell in the past, repeat this single word: forward. Brainstorm one positive thought and action to use to keep you moving forward. When you're tempted to indulge in a negative, regressive behavior, swap it for one that will move you forward." - Karen Salmansohn

"I believe that when you stop renewing and are no longer open to change and the possibilities that continually unfold, you stop being alive and are just getting through the years." - Oprah Winfrey

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 22nd, 2012

"It is only alone, true alone that one bursts apart, spring forth." - Maria Isabel Barreno

"To be Silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing; expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself...When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless." - Virginia Woolf

"Aloneness is an opportunity, a state brimming with potentiality, with resources for renewed life...In the space of aloneness -perhaps only there- a woman is free to admit and act on her own her desires." - Florence Falk

"Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and mood in a room by himself." - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

"Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own." - Oprah Winfrey

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 21st, 2012

"Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket." - Norman Vincent Peale

“To go fast, row slowly.” - Norman Vincent Peale

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.” - Norman Vincent Peale

"Problems can provide insights and give lessons in how you can grow" - Henrik Edberg

"....Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." - Matthew 6:34(NIV)

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 20th, 2012

"Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Help other people to cope with their problems and your own will be easier to cope with." - Norman Vince Peale

"If you think lack you tend to create a condition of lack. Shift your thought pattern to one of abundance and believe that God is now in the process of giving you the abundance you need." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones." - Norman Vincent Peale

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 19th, 2012

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford

"One must be compassionate to one’s self before external compassion." - Dalai Lama

"It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." - Bruce Lee

"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Live your life and forget your age" - Norman Vincent Peale

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 18th, 2012

"We’re swallowed up only when we’re willing for it to happen." - Nathalie Sarraute

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." - Oprah Winfrey

"Thank you
For teaching me wrong from right and
encouraging me to keep my dreams in sight
For showing me to not let obstacles keep me
down
And for creating a smile from of my frown
For saying that you care about me
And for showing just how special love should be
For wiping my tears away when I’m feeling sad
And for calming me down when I tend to get mad
For helping others with the good that you do
And for teaching me that I should help others, too
For hugging me when I am feeling blue
And whispering into my ear “I love you”
Thank you, family, for all that you do
I don’t know where I would be if it weren’t
for you." - James Malinchak

“When you come down to it, all you have is yourself.” - Pablo Picasso

"Let food be your medicine." - Hippocrates

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 17th, 2012

"...by accepting what is given to you, you complete the circle of love." - Lori Moore

"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." - Louisa May Alcott

"Friends are there to heal the wounds
To pull you out of saddened tunes
To brighten up your cloudy skies
To clear up fictitious lies Friends are there with open arms
To comfort you and block the harms
To keep your secrets hidden away
To entertain you when you want to play Friends are there, smile or tear
Friends are there, happiness or fear
Friends are fun and friends are clever
And the ties that bind friends will last forever." - Harmony Davis

"Friendships multiply joys and divide grief." - Thomas Fuller

"A friend...Is someone who believes you when nobody else will." - Ashley Parole

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 16th, 2012

"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it! Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." – Howard Thurman

"After the verb “to love,” “to help” is the most beautiful verb in the world." - Bertha Von Suttner

"Where there is great love, there are always miracles." - Willa Cather

"Love is something eternal." - Vincent van Gogh

"Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections; some literally give their blood...but everyone has something to give." - Barbara Bush

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 15th, 2012

“The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.” - Mohandas K. Gandhi

“What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,' or 'good' and 'evil,' and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?” - Sam Harris

“We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.” - Pema Chodron

“Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people's choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they've received and what problems they are facing.” - Michael Lerner

“The most powerful moral influence is example. ” - Huston Smith

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 14th, 2012

“Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just; by doing self-controlled acts, we come to be self-controlled; and by doing brave acts, we become brave.” - Aristotle

"What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory." - Oprah Winfrey

“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.” - John Locke

“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.” - Marshall McLuhan

"Before you pull up your tent stakes and tight roll your sleeping bag, give Mother Nature another chance. Camping really can be a vacation like no other—in a good way." - Heather Hatfield

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 13th, 2012

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” - E. E. Cummings

“No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.” - Marian Wright Edelman

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need." - Tao Te Ching

"I use memories but I will not allow memories to use me." - Deepak Chopra

“A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.” - Felix Adler

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 12th, 2012

"The mental and physical space we create by letting go of things that belong in our past gives us...the option to fill the space with something new." - Susan Fay West

“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.” - Joan Didion

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” - Frederick Douglass

“A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.” - Cardinal De Retz

“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.” - Mohandas K. Gandhi

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 11th, 2012

"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all..." - Krishnamurti

"When we...go back into the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and staggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment." - Pam Vredevelt

“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” - Abraham Joshua Heschel

"You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you." - Sarah Ban Breathnach

“The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.” - Eric Hoffer

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 10th, 2012

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?” - Jane Nelson

"We must be willing to let go of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us." - Joseph Campbell

"We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know we could do better." - Kathryn Schultz

“That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.” - William J. H. Boetcker

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 9th, 2012

"In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world." - Deepak Chopra

"Holding on is believing that there's only a past; letting go is knowing that there's a future." - Daphne Rose Kingma

"The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointment of the past that bind our spirit." - Jack Kornfield

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all." - J.K Rowling

“When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 8th, 2012

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

"Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Accept yourself the way you are – the perfect you and the not-so-perfect you can co-exist in perfect harmony." - Vibha Dhawan

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"The only way to fight evil is to wrap it with love, just like only water can tame a blazing fire." - Vibha Dhawan

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 7th, 2012

"Believe in yourself and take the leap of faith; it’s never too late to start being who you’ve always wanted to be." - Vibha Dhawan

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." - Thomas Jefferson

"Let go of your ego, it only poisons your heart." - Vibha Dhawan

"All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

"Age is a state of mind. It is said that “if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter." - Vibha Dhawan

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 6th, 2012

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Love needs to be set free like the passing wind. The more you try to hold on to it, the faster it will escape you. Stop seeking it and you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see that it’s always been around and always will be." - Vibha Dhawan

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving." - Henry Ford

"The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change." - LeBron James

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 5th, 2012

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Magic exists within each of us, all it needs, is to be acknowledged and believed in to come to life." - Vibha Dhawan

"Laugh more often; let your vibrant smile tell your fabulous story." - Vibha Dhawan

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs

"Don’t overlook the flawless today in the hopes for a perfect tomorrow." - Vibha Dhawan

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 4th, 2012

“When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.” - Bonaro W. Overstreet

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." - Henry Ford

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

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 3rd, 2012

“If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” - Mark Twain

We are all something, but none of us are everything.” - Blaise Pascal

“To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.” - Sidonie Gruenberg

“If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.” - Carla Gordon

5 Quotes To Brighten And Sweeten Up Your Day - July 1st, 2012

“If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.” - John Steinbeck

“They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.” - Mohandas K. Gandhi

“Self-respect knows no considerations.” - Mohandas K. Gandhi

“It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.” - George Eliot

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” - Carl Rogers