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  • #1
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #2
    Rachel Carson
    “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

  • #3
    Joseph Campbell
    “You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
    Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

  • #4
    Pema Chödrön
    “Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.”
    Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

  • #5
    Walt Whitman
    “A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #6
    Maya Angelou
    “When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #7
    Mercedes Lackey
    “If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
    Mercedes Lackey

  • #8
    Pema Chödrön
    “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
    Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

  • #9
    Robert A. Heinlein
    “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
    Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

  • #10
    Debasish Mridha
    “No one is responsible for your inner peace and inner joy except for you.”
    Debasish Mridha

  • #11
    “In the heart or every caregiver is a knowing that we are all connected. As I do for you, I do for me.”
    Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

  • #12
    “Beautiful moments in life need no words for description. Living those moments and feeling the beauty suffices.”
    Mamur Mustapha

  • #13
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #14
    Victoria Holt
    “Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
    Victoria Holt

  • #15
    Lemony Snicket
    “A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

  • #16
    Auguste Rodin
    “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
    Auguste Rodin

  • #17
    Alan W. Watts
    “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
    Alan Wilson Watts

  • #18
    Booker T. Washington
    “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
    Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

  • #19
    Michelle    Moore
    “If you haven't done much giving in your life-try it and see how you feel afterwards.”
    Michelle Moore, Selling Simplified

  • #20
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #21
    Jennifer Donnelly
    “Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.”
    Jennifer Donnelly, A Northern Light

  • #22
    Craig D. Lounsbrough
    “Every tomorrow is an outcome of what I do today, and the beauty of it all is that today is happening all the time.”
    Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

  • #23
    Carl Sagan
    “Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
    Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

  • #24
    John Muir
    “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
    John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

  • #25
    Maya Angelou
    “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #26
    Dean Koontz
    “Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.”
    Dean Koontz

  • #27
    Eckhart Tolle
    “I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
    Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

  • #28
    Amy Leigh Mercree
    “Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others.”
    Amy Leigh Mercree, The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, and Soulmates

  • #29
    Jeffrey Fry
    “Living in the past is a place that has no future.”
    Jeffrey Fry

  • #30
    “Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
    R.J. Palacio, Wonder



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