“If you can be happy, smiling and dancing, even though pain visits you in some form, you could adjust your attitude so you are more positively focused. Then you are less conscious of the pain because you are focusing on something pleasant. You are focused on the positive.”
— John Morton
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
— Aristotle
“Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.”
— Andrew Schneider
“We are not what we know. We are what we are willing to learn.”
— Council on Ideas
“The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.”
— Julia Cameron
“For all those years you’ve protected the seed. It’s time to become the beautiful flower.”
— Stephen C. Paul
“Life does’t get better by chance it gets better by change”
— Unknown
“The future, higher evolution will belong to those who live in joy, who share joy, and who spread joy.”
— Torkom Saraydarian
“Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.”
— Sathya Sai Baba
“Finding a moment of mindfulness in your day can lead to a boost in happiness.”
— Rowland, Z. Wenzel, M. & Kubiak, T.
“An understanding nature frees others to recognize their goodness “
— Unknown
“To have abundance in Soul does not mean having lots of things; it means having access to, and communication with, the essence of all things. Once you are in touch with that, you have all things inside you. You don’t feel any lack. You have fullness and gratitude, and you walk free, knowing that whatever you need will come to you.”
— John-Roger
“Being aware of my impact on nature, I remind myself that I am a complete and peaceful Soul “
— Unknown
“The purpose creates the machine.”
— Arthur Young
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
-— Marcel Proust
“It’s work only if I say it’s work but it’s play if I say it’s fun.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
— Dale Carnegie
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
— Walt Disney
“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it.”
— Mark Twain
“If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life.We are having fun, we don’t get bored, we don’t have frustrations.”
— don Miguel Ruiz
“No matter how bad people may seem, they possess at least one virtue. Be like the humming bird and pick out the sweetness of everyone’s character.”
— Unknown
“Confusion is primarily emotional reaction that floods the mind with too many areas of choices. Write them down on a piece of paper, positive and negative for each choice. Write them down and cross them out and see what you come out with. If they’re the same, throw a dart. If it hits one you don’t like, you’ll know it and you say, “I didn’t like it.” Then go to the other one you liked anyway.”
— John-Roger
“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.”
— Sydney J. Harris
“We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart.”
— Elizabeth J. Canham
“If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.”
— John Steinbeck
“I want to know the thoughts of God; the rest are details.”
— Albert Einstein
“If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.”
— Stephen Covey