"If you want rainbows, 
you've got to put up with the rain"

Dolly Parton

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whomever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

Jalal ad-Din Rumi, 1207-1273
Persian Poet and Sage

"The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart.
 So fill your heart with good things
 and good things will follow you for the rest of your life."

Scott Murray

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

Edward De Bono,
Maltese physician, educator

"We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parentheses in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other, and this moment will have been worthwhile."

Deepak Chopra, M.D.

"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope  to have in the future."

Charles Franklin Kettering,
American electrical engineer and manufacturer

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Winston Churchill, British statesman, prime minister, author

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: 
the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared
and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."

David Ben-Gurion, 
State of Israel's first prime minister

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead."

Frank Gelett Burgess, American writer, illustrator

"We do not see things as they are,
we see them as we are...
In other words, vision is actually an outpouring of an inner way of seeing things"

Dr Jacob Liberman
Author of Light: Medicine of the Future

"There is only one moment and that's the one happening now, 
as you sit here reading this"

Barefoot Doctor
'Barefoot Doctor's Handbook
for the Urban Warrior'

"If you woke up this morning with more 
health than illness,
you are more blessed than the million who will not survive the week.

If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place 
to sleep,
you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank or in your wallet,
you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, 
you are blessed because the majority can,
but most do not."

Author Unknown

"To defend one's self against fear is simply
 to ensure that one will, one day, be
conquered by it; fears must be faced."

 James Arthur Baldwin

"You cannot be grateful and bitter.  
You cannot be grateful and unhappy.  
You cannot be grateful and without hope.
You cannot be grateful and unloving.
So by all means, be grateful."

Author Unknown

"True joy is not an emotional state. It is not that which one feels when some desire is satisfied, nor when everything at last goes well. It is inward; it is of the soul".

J. Donald Walters