Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

    Einstein

We cannot control the wind, but we have the power to adjust the sails.

- Chinese Proverb

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

- Vincent Van Gogh

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?

- Sai Baba

There is a God part within each person. That's the Soul. It is magnificent. It is divine. It is not crippled. It is perfect. It is aware. And the Soul's nature is joyful. When you experience joy, you are experiencing your true self.

- John-Roger

At any moment you have two voices in your head: one that tells you that you can't, and another that tells you that you can. Which will prove true? The one you give the most attention to. The one you act on. The one you make a stand for.

- Alan Cohen

It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

- Mozart

Ah...mirth....the sound of youth, no matter your age.

- Samuel Clemens

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

- The Buddha

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathingÃÆ’¢â‚¬”that's why we recommend it daily.

- Zig Ziglar

Letting love flow through is very easy. All you do is move to a neutral position - not one of belief or disbelief, not one of judgment or prejudice, but one of receptiveness. As soon as you judge, you strike against love.

- John-Roger

If you are having difficulties in a relationship, look at whether you are trying to control the person and wanting them to be different than they are.

Set them free, allow them to behave the way they behave. It is not your place to interfere with their life expression as much as it is your place to not allow interference to your life expression.

Have you considered that this is a test for you? Have you considered how you would pass the test?

Look for the living truth. Relax and be patient as you experience the living truth. Always be loving in all ways.

- John Morton

The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

It is important to remember that you do not have to agree with something to accept it. You can disagree with the situation and still accept that that's the way it is.

- John-Roger

Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love.

- Rumi

Be devoted to your own spirit within, to your own Soul.

- John-Roger

Your cup may runneth over - but give from the overflow. Keep what's in the cup for yourself - so that you can take care of yourself.

- Iyanla Vanzant

...Heatlh is the Greatest of Human Blessings. Let food be your medicine.

-Hippocrates

The joy you seek outside is hidden within you. Uncover it. The Shakti, the divine creative energy, surges within you and is you. Experience it and you will know that there is no happiness greater than that of your own Self.

-Swami Muktananda

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing Light of your own Being.

-Hafiz

There is but one temple in the Universe... and that is the human body. Nothing is holier than that high form. We touch heaven, when we lay our hand upon the human body.

-Thomas Carlyle, Philosopher

If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

-Mohandas K. Gandhi

If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.

-Robert Kaplan

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

-Ruth Ann Schabacker

Success is never final, failure is never fatal, it's courage that counts.

-Sir Winston Churchill

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

- Henry Van Dyke

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind is like the wick of a lamp illumined only through its own radiance.

- Milarepa - Drinking the Mountain Stream

The heart is the hub of all sacred places.
Go there and roam.

- Nityananda

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

- Thomas Edison

Nothing is as liberating as joy. It frees the mind and fills it with tranquility.

- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Every blade of grass has an angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow! Grow!'

- The Talmud

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

- Maya Angelou

Love constantly. Love in all ways.

- John Morton

Always remember: Joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. It is vital.

- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Four Rules For Life; Show up. Pay attention.
Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

-Angeles Arrien

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.

- John Marks Templeton

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

- Marianne Williamson

I know God will not give me anything I cannot handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.

- Mother Teresa

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

- Golda Meir

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

- Thomas Carlyle

If the heart sings a song of love, go.
If there is no response or there is doubt, steer clear.
This is your guide.
This is love leading you.

- John-Roger

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

- Comte de Buffon

You are a child of the Universe,
No less than the moon and the stars;
You have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
No doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.

- Max Ehrmann

I offer you this prayer for all the difficult relationships in our lives: God, grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the person I can, and the wisdom to know that person is me.

- Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey

Forgiveness for ourselves is the journey from guilt over what we have done or not done to the celebration of what we have become.

- Joan Borysenko

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

- Oriental Proverb

Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

- Doug King

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

- Carl Bard

The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have.

- Leonard Nimoy

We probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

- Olin Miller

When you get to the place where you would worry, Stop and pray.

- Edgar Cayce

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

- Joseph Campbell

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

Every thought we think is creating our future.

- Louise L. Hay

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you look at life as being a ladder, you can visualize each "problem" as a rung in that ladder. If you take away the problem, you may take away your potential growth. You learn from your experiences, and often you learn more from your negative experiences than your positive experiences. Those experiences that hit at you and shake you are often the most effective areas of learning.

- John-Roger

While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance.

- Hans Bos

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

- E. E. Cummings

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

- Rumi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mahatma Ghandi

Your dispositions, aptitudes, and attitudes reflect your intentions. Your intentions create the reality that you experience. Until you become aware of this, it happens unconsciously. Therefore, be mindful of what you project. That is the first step toward authentic power.

- Gary Zukav from Seat of the Soul

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Mahatma Gandhi

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

- John Muir

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

-Doug Larson

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer up somebody else.

-Mark Twain

It is a human tendency to look outside ourselves for recognition and approval. But as you've seen, when you do that, you are living from the outside in. In the long run you'll be dissatisfied.

Letting love lead is living from the inside out. That's the way to true fulfillment.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye

It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

-Moliere

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

- Shakti Gawain

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

-Dale Carnegie

There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

- Mother Teresa

It is more skillful, more intelligent, more wise to WELCOME WHAT IS and then experience how quickly - if the present moment is challenging - how quickly help comes - from within you, but also sometimes from without - as a helpful event, as a sudden thing that happens - just the right thing! Because this is the ALIGNMENT with the Totality. At this deeper level you are ONE with the One Consciousness. You are That.

- Eckhart Tolle

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

- Marcus Valerius Martial

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

- Michael Bridge

The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well.
As a matter of fact I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!
-Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

There is no remedy for love but to love more."

-Thoreau

Some day after we have mastered the winds, the waves and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the history of the world, humans will have discovered fire.

-Teilhard de Chardin

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

- Henry David Thoreau

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.

-Leo Tolstoy

Any thought that is not filled with love seems unholy.

Gide

Right now, we are appearing as the very light of consciousness, alive as love, although we may require some training, like an artist would, to fully offer our self as love's gift.

-David Deida

To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.

-Pablo Neruda

When I think of you,
fireflies in the marsh rise
like the soul's jewels,
lost to eternal longing,
abandoning my body
-Izumi Shikibu

Pillowed on your thighs in a dream garden,
little flower with its perfumed stamen,
singing, sipping from the stream of you --
sunset, moonlight -- our song continues.

-Ikkyu Sojun

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

-Rainer Maria Rilke

One has really nothing in the world to fear. One becomes fearless when one understands the power of the soul.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Listen with the ears of the angels, and you can hear the angels speak.

- John-Roger

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

-Mother Teresa

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

- Seneca

First we receive the light, then we impart it. Thus we repair the world.

- Kabbalah

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

- Robert G. Ingersoll

Whatever you think of me is none of my business.

- anon

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
- Charlie Chaplin

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

- Martin Luther

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

- Karl Barth

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

- Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan

Be glad that you may clear the past karmas with the gradualness of embers slowly burning until ashes are all that remain. And even the ashes become the dust that scatters with the next breeze that comes and are dissolved by the rains. You are what remains when all else is dispersed and washed away.

- John Morton

Go to your sacred place, find out who you are and what you were sent here to this earth to do (then do it).

- Mayan Elder Hunbatz Men

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

- William A. Ward

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

- Katherine Mansfield

Joy is abundant when the heart is being shared freely.

- John Morton

Take your heart out into the vast fields of light and let it breathe.

- Hafiz

Keep a green tree alive in your heart and a songbird may come to sing there.

- Chinese Proverb

Your work now is to find your fire and rekindle it - and then to let it burn.

- Oprah Winfrey

May the long time sun shine upon you,
All love surround you,
And the pure light within you,
Guide your way home.
- anon

First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win.
- Gandhi

Our Deepest Fear
by Marianne Williamson
from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? 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 around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.


Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

- George Carlin

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

- Kahlil Gibran

Many of us spend our whole lives
Running from feeling
With the mistaken belief
That you cannot bear the pain.
But you have already borne the pain.
What you have not done
Is feel all you are beyond that pain.

- Kahlil Gibran

We also often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

- Dalai Lama

Use everything that happens as an opportunity to direct you into your own evolvement.

- John-Roger

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

- Albert Schweitzer

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

- Lauren Bacall

There is a light in this world,
a healing spirit
more powerful than any darkness we may encounter.
We sometime lose sight of this force
when there is suffering, and too much pain.
Then suddenly,
the spirit will emerge
through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call
and answer in extraordinary ways.

- Mother Teresa

The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Humanity's flaw is that we can deteriorate; but our virtue is that we can improve.

- Hasidic saying

Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.

- St. Francis de Sales

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.

- Ovid

It never occurred to me to doubt myself.

- Katharine Hepburn

Now sweet one, be wise, Cast all your votes for dancing.

- Hafiz

Peace, happiness, and love represent the inner world.

As you tune to that inner world, you may begin to experience peace. The emotions subside; the mind becomes quieter. You may feel the Spirit touch you; you may hear a voice whisper, "Peace, be still." You will know that you are awakening to your true self more and more.

- John-Roger

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Happiness is formless; it cannot be fitted into the frame of our demands. We insist upon this wife or husband, this career or achievement, this home, this security, excitement, or distraction. Even if we get our demands, we are no happier than before; we have merely covered our unhappiness. It is still there, and it will inevitably show itself when change occurs. We must break the frame altogether, and just let life happen; then, we enter an amazing new world whose existence we never before suspected.

- Vernon Howard

The only person who behaves sensibly is my tailor.
He takes my measure anew every time he sees me.
All the rest go on with their old measurements.

- George Bernard Shaw

Don't resist the negativity within you. Love it. Loving will purify and lift all negativity.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye

Argue for your limitations... and they are yours!

- Richard Bach

The great essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

- Joseph Addison

Acceptance is not a passive state. Far from it.
Acceptance is active because it requires you to be highly
attentive. Acceptance has infinite subtleties and shadings.
When you truly walk through the door of acceptance, you will
experience joy and peace. You will be in the now. You will
find yourself in your loving.

- John-Roger with Paul Kaye

One is considered the best yogi who regards every being like oneself and who can feel the pain and pleasures of others as one’s own.

Bhagavad Gita 6:32

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them.

- Epictetus, c 200 AD

The major problems of our time are systemic; they cannot be understood in isolation. They need a systemic, or holistic, approach to be solved.

- Fritjof Capra

People have tried so many techniques and approaches and rules and regulations to get to God. Loving is the approach that works.

- John-Roger

Whether you believe you can or cannot do something, you are right.

- Henry Ford

Come my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Spirit is that vast stillness which is behind all created things.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn’t ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

- Lin Yutang

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to indure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

- Blood of the Martyr

There is the Game of Life and the Game of Love.
Most people are playing the Game of Life,
trying to make life work.
Life already works.
How we bring loving into it is the big key.
That's playing the Game of Love,
and it's by far the bigger game.

- John-Roger

Do not underestimate the power of treating yourself to what you yourself believe is important.

- Victoria Moran in 'Lit From Within'

In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.

- Deepak Chopra

Life is what happens while you're making other plans.

- John Lennon

Meditation is running into reality. It does not insulate you from the pain of life. It allows you to delve so deeply into life and all its aspects that you pierce the pain barrier and go beyond suffering.

- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Mindfulness in Plain English

We mistakenly believe that if our partners love us that they will react and behave in certain ways-the ways we react and behave when we love someone.

- John Gray

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
and no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You...you may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possession
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of Man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You, you may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will live as one.

- John Lennon

As we are looking for ourselves, we often see ourselves in others who are open to reflect. We then love them, not just for who they are, but for that reflection of our love in them. What we're really saying is, "When I'm with you, that place inside of me that is loving awakens."

- John-Roger

When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.

 Rudolf Bahro

Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent upon your prosperity consciousness. As you conceive of more, more will come into your life. I love the visualization of standing at the seashore looking out at the vast ocean and knowing that this ocean is the abundance that is available to me.

- Louise L. Hay

...many people are waiting for prosperity. It cannot come in the future. When you honor, acknowledge, and fully accept your present reality - where you are, who you are, what you are doing right now - when you fully accept what you have got, you are grateful for what you have got, grateful for what is, grateful for Being. Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity. It cannot come in the future. Then, in time, that prosperity manifests for you in various ways.

- Eckhart Tolle

Life

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Mary Manin Morrissey

You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Susannah Clark

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Cicero

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller

Life's more amusing than we thought.
Andrew Lang

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Hansen, Grace

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Hubbard, Elbert