The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit. -- Alan Cohen

The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields. -- Alan Cohen

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -- Anais Nin

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -Anais Nin

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. -- Albert Einstein

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

He that would live in peace and ease must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. --Ben Franklin

Circumstances don't matter. Only state of being matters. -- Bashar

If you are going to pursue revenge, dig two graves. -- Chinese proverb

Whatever your problem, it is but a test in love. If you meet that test through love, your problem will be solved. If you do not meet that test through love, your problem will continue until you do! Your problem is your initiation in love. --Catherine Ponder

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. --C. S. Lewis

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. --Carlos Castaneda

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.--Wayne Dyer

It's not about being better than someone else, but about being better than you were before. --Wayne Dyer

A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems!"--- Homer Simpson

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

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. --James Branch Cabell

EGO

All humans have ego, and it is one of the greatest mysteries to those of us who have never experienced duality. Make no mistake, ego is the antithesis of love, and many of you know this. It is the balance of this ego with love that is critical. All of these duality attributes are appropriate, given to you in love, imprinted upon your very biology. It is what you do with it that is so honoured. Ego, tempered with love, becomes appropriate. It is in it's raw, untempered form that it becomes the enemy of love. Think about it. Isn't it odd that a poison becomes a healing substance when love is added? That's the way it is with ego. ~Kryon, as channelled by Lee Carroll, Book VI~

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. Lily Tomlin

"Each one has to find its peace from within. And peace, to be real, must be unaffected by outside circumstances." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment." ~Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. --Mohandas Gandhi

If someone wants "A" to happen, yet they prepare for "B," they will always get "B." Prepare for "A" -Mike Dooley

"Some people just have big hearts,and with this gift they're very often able to feel, offer, and show far more love than they receive from those around them. Which, at times, is a heavy load to bear. So today I'd like to remind them, and especially you, that the sun asks not that the moon and planets help brighten each day, but relishes her role as a keeper of the light and a bringer of the dawn. A role much like your own." - Mike Dooley (tut.com)

People, when given a chance smile, skip, and dance. They create, play, and laugh. They care, share, and love. And the ones who don't, haven't yet realized that chances are something you give yourself. - Mike Dooley

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. --Mark Twain

"The ancients have stolen all our really good, new ideas." Mark Twain

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. -- Mark Twain

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth. --Mark Twain

"You can live each day in a world filled with 'problems,' or rise each morning and embrace a world filled with unseen solutions...eager for you to find them. The decision is yours...both worlds exist. The one you choose is the one you will create." ~Michael McMillan

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. --Mother Teresa

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

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. -- Richard Bach

"Argue for your limits, and sure enough, they’re yours" - Richard Bach

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. --Richard Bach

"Space and time are illusions, and they do not factor in. Indeed, you may see the entire infinity of the universe around you now as a consciousness unit in its own right, and that is important. There is ultimately only one Consciousness Unit, and its varying pulsations are simply distortions of its Oneness. When you see the many different consciousness units of many different gradations of [ apparent ] size and vibration, what you are really seeing is simply the differentiation of Oneness by its own free-will decisions" --------Ra /Wilcocks

Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. --Robert Fulghum

"I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society." ~Sasha Azevedo

"People will forget what you say, but they will never forget how you make them feel." ~Tom Asacker

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on." ~Thomas Jefferson

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny. ~Unknown

The life you lead is the lesson you teach. -- Source unknown

"Dear God, please help me to accept the truth about myself today, no matter how beautiful it is" -source unknown

Until you dream, there isn't a mold. Until you speak, there isn't a promise and until you move, there isn't a path. Do these simple things and you manifest the universe as you know it. -- Unknown

"They do me wrong who say I come no more .When once I knock and fail to find you in; For every day I stand outside your door, And bid you wake, and rise to fight and win. Wail not for precious chances passed away; Weep not for golden ages on the wane; Each night I burn the records of the day, At sunrise every soul is born again. Laugh like a boy at splendors that have sped, To vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb; My judgments seal the dead past with its dead, But never bind a moment yet to come." Poem by Walter Malone, titled "Opportunity"

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? -- W. Somerset Maugham

Why are you unhappy? because 99% of everything you do is for your self --and there isn't one! -- Wei Wu Wei