Tag Archives: 2013

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it. -Pema Chödrön

Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don’t really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends … Continue reading →

It is either easy or impossible. – Salvador Dali

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. ―Immanuel Kant

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. … Continue reading →

When you are afraid, just train! When something doesn’t feel right, just train! When you don’t believe in yourself anymore, just train! The only think that won’t betray you is your training. –Sakaki

If I offer you a glass of water, and bring back a cup of ice, I’m trying to teach you patience. And also that sometimes you get ice with no water, and later you’ll get water with no ice. Ah, … Continue reading →

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. ― E.E. Cummings

Do the thing and you will have the power. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. ― Ray Bradbury

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. ― Steve Jobs

Creativity takes courage. ― Henri Matisse

The things that we love tell us what we are. ― St. Thomas Aquinas

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ― John Steinbeck

Life has a funny way of testing you to see if you really want, what you say you want. ― Turcois Ominek

Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind. And mind can only see things that already written in heart. ― Toba Beta

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ― Mahatma Gandhi

I dwell in possibility… ― Emily Dickinson

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart. ― Paulo Coelho

A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself. ― Steve Lopez

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. ― Gary Snyder

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ― Tom Stoppard

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ― Maya Angelou

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? ― John Keats

One can’t be on the topmost rung of a ladder from before, it takes time to reach it, to climb it, one at a time. We struggle so that in this process of climbing we can learn, so that we … Continue reading →

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ― Mark Twain

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. ― Yogi Berra

We see in order to move; we move in order to see. ― William Gibson

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them. ― Czesław Miłosz

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. ― Lauren DeStefano

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. ~Author Unknown

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ― Paulo Coelho

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying. ― Sarah Dessen