"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." - Barack Obama
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama "Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point." - Harold B. Melchart
"I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt." - Virginia Satir
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy
"Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." - Charles M. Schulz
"Optimism is an expectation of the future, but hope is a way of experiencing the present. Optimism argues with the predictions of cynicism and bitterness, and is often proved wrong. Hope rejects cynicism and bitterness as unhelpful, and is perennially proved right." - Doug Muder "Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." - Barack Obama
"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled." - Barack Obama "You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit -- the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us -- the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this -- when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers -- it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help." - Barack Obama
"Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning." - Jean Shinoda Bolen
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid." - Audre Lorde
"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it." - Marian Anderson "When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible." - Alain "We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how we are doing, whether we seem centered or off course ... we need the nourishing company of others to create the circle needed for growth, freedom and healing." - Wayne Muller
“Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long-run.” - Seth Godin
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” - Earl Nightingale
“We are not unlike a particularly hardy crustacean. . . With each passage from one stage of human growth to the next we, too, must shed a protective structure. We are left exposed and vulnerable -- but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before. These sheddings may take several years or more. Coming out of each passage, though, we enter a longer and more stable period in which we can expect relative tranquility and a sense of equilibrium regained.” - Gail Sheehy
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” - Aristotle
“There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.” - Ruth Stout
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." - Victor Hugo
"Life is to be enjoyed, and not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival." - Willard Gayvil "So many conditions of happiness are available; more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run to the future in order to get more." - Thich Nhat Hanh "Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself." - Tony Robbins "Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our mind and hearts would open and we could see another possibility." - Iyanla Vanzant
"If we can get to the place where we show up as our genuine selves and let each other see who really are, the awe-inspiring ripple effect will change the world." - Terrie M. Williams
"Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you is a lift-shifting exercise." - Martha Beck
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." - Vaclav Havel "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, nor this thing nor that, but simply growth." - W. B. Yeats
"Happiness, not in another place, but this place...not for another hour, but for this hour." - Walt Whitman
"Out of difficulties grow miracles." - Jean De La Breye're
"There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness." - Pearl S. Buck
"I knew life began where I stood in the dark, looking out into the light." - Yusef Komunyakaa
"It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better." - Francois Jacob
"You are full of unshaped dreams...You are laden with beginnings...There's hope in you..." - Lola Ridge
“It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ” - Ursula Le Guin
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope." - Samuel Johnson
"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up." - Anne Lamott
"No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead." - Oprah Winfrey
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all" - Emily Dickinson
"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats." - Iris Murdoch "The capacity for uplift is part of what makes us essentially, euphorically human." - Jessica Winter Every moment you get is a gift. Spend it on things that matter. - Positively Positive, Facebook
"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but they seize us." - Ashley Montagu
"The only joy in the world is to begin." - Cesare Paves
"Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries." - Theodore Roethke "Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle." - Wislawa Szymborska
"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." - Rumi
"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint...and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh
"Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life." - Sarah Ban Breathnach "This moment is always the best one in which to express your care for others." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
"This moment is your life. It is the process of living, the journey, that is life itself, and we often wish away our lives by focusing only on what tomorrow could, should, would bring." - Sarah Ban Breathnach "Today, and every day, take as your personal mantra: 'I am what I am, and what I am wonderful.' - Sarah Ban Breathnach "Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson
"We spend most our lives cutting down our ambitions because the world has told us to think small. Dreams express what your soul is telling you, so as crazy as your dream might seem -- even to you -- I don't care: You have to let that out." - Eleni Gabre-Madhin "To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another - that is surely the basic instinct...! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!" - Barbara Kingslover "All we have is all we need. All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are" - Sarah Ban Breathnach "Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live." - Sarah Ban Breathnach
“In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.” - Dorothea Dix
"You have to speak your dream out loud." - Kelly Corrigan
“There is peace in the garden. Peace and results.” - Ruth Stout
"What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, "I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it." - Linda Ellerbee
"People underestimate their capacity for change. There's never a right time to do a difficult thing." - John Porter
“To change who you are, change who you think you are.” - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"If you live the questions, life will move you into the answers." - Deepak Chopra
"Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out." - Tina Turner
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.” - Gail Hamilton
"Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"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." - Thich Nhat Hanh
“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” - Joseph Campbell
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” - Aristotle
"If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me." - Tony Robbins
"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." - Thich Nhat Hanh "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." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and witness a condition of happiness you have, happiness comes." - 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 now." - Thich Nhat Hanh
"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?" - Thich Nhat Hanh
"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed." - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game." - Michael Jordan
”It is God’s Kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.” - Rumi
"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky" - Buddha
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates
