We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
Susan Cain  

The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Douglas Clegg  

We rise by lifting others.
Robert Ingersoll  

Anything or anyone I could lose by telling the truth was never mine anyway. I’m willing to lose anything that requires me to hide any part of myself.
Glennon Doyle  

If you are given the gift of growing older, accept it with grace, because not everybody gets it.
Sheryl Lee Ralph   

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.
Robin Wall Kimmerer  
from Stories For Life (stories.life) 

In daily life, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.
Brother David Steindl-Rast

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
Will Rogers   

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in being, instead of lost in your mind.
Eckhart Tolle 

Don’t let the world silence the whispers of your heart.   
author unknown 

The biggest challenge we face is shifting human consciousness. The planet doesn’t need saving. We do.
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez    

Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
J. Krishnamurti 

Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.
Michael Burke   

Truth is, beauty and heartache are present everywhere humans exist, and as a homeless friend once wisely advised, “It’s all a matter of putting on your perspecticles.”
Dave LaBelle  

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Martin Luther King Jr  

Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Rachel Carson  

Perhaps true wisdom is in trying hard and being contented, and maybe amused, with the result.
Grady Means  

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard

The planet doesn’t need more “successful” people. The planet desperately NEEDS more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers & lovers of ALL kinds.
1 Million Women  

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you’re the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson  

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney  

Ultimately, all real communication is about truth. And ultimately, the only real truth is love. That is why, when love is present, so is communication. And when communication is difficult, it is a sign that love is not fully present.
God through Neale Donald Walsch  

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
author unknown

Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow  in Australia.
Charles Schulz  

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.
Bikram Choudhury   

Live your life. And, forget your age.
Norman Vincent Peale 

The most beautiful and profound way to change yourself is to accept yourself completely, as imperfect as you are.
Maxime Lagace  

In order to heal, we must first forgive… And sometimes the person we must forgive is ourselves.
Mila Bron   

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.
Theodore Roosevelt    

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
Paulo Coelho 

That is the only thing I need my children to know about themselves: Nothing will destroy them. So I do not want to protect them from life’s fires; I want to point them toward the fire and say, “I see your fear, and it’s big. I also see your courage, and it’s bigger. We can do hard things, baby. We are fireproof.”
Glennon Doyle  

We are all entangled, integrated, dependent on each other and the more-than-human world around us. We are a part of nature, so for us to thrive, nature must thrive.
from Stories For Life (stories.life)

Truth has an elegance that startles the heart to its own reawakening.
God through Neale Donald Walsch  

Don’t aim to be normal, aim to be true.
author unknown   

People don’t have to love you. But when you look in the mirror, you’d better love what you see.
Sheryl Lee Ralph   

You have not failed until you quit trying.
Gordon B. Hinckley

Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.
Charles Cook  

If my heart is always wandering the hills and oceans of faraway places, my eyes of envy will rob me from seeing the unique beauty surrounding me right here.
Dave LaBelle  

Love in not a because, it's a no matter what.
Jodi Picoult

You change your life by changing your heart.
Max Lucado

Everything I Need to Know I Learned From My Dog:
When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.
Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy.
author unknown  

My great-grandfather had a line that he often quoted: ‘I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.’
A. G Sulzberger  

Yes, the world is crazy. If it doesn’t make sense to you, you’re right. It really doesn’t make sense.
The point is not to complain about it. The point is not to give up hope. The point is this: The world doesn’t make sense, but you can make sense. You can find personal meaning.
Kent M. Keith   

I went looking for my dreams outside of myself, and discovered it’s not what the world holds for you, it’s what you bring to it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Don’t think about what you don’t have. Embrace and enjoy what’s in front of you.
Henry Winkler   

People often live in the past and worry about the future. But the past is something we can’t change and the future is something we can’t really control. As all philosophers will point out, the key is to be in (and appreciate) the now.
Grady Means  

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.
Desmond Tutu  

What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.
Elizabeth Gilbert  

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
George Michael     

The Universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;  everything that you want, you already are.
Rumi   

The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me. I quit spending my life trying to control myself and began to trust myself. We only control what we don’t trust. We can either control our selves or love our selves, but we can’t do both. Love is the opposite of control. Love demands trust.
Glennon Doyle  

You’re not supposed to win or lose arguments. You’re supposed to reach a mutual understanding and agreement. Otherwise, you both lose.
author unknown

The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited, or erased. It can only be accepted.
author unknown

Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive.
Paulo Coelho

Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Steve Jobs   

Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. 
Confucius

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain