Feasts For The Eyes / Wisdom For The Soul

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be Kind. Always.
Robin Williams

We are all half-baked experiments – mistake-prone beings, born without an instruction book into a complex world…we’re all bozos on the bus. This, in my opinion, is cause for celebration. If we’re all bozos, then for God’s sake, we can put down the burden of pretense and get on with being bozos…it is so much more effective to work on our rough edges with a light and forgiving heart.
Elizabeth Lesser

Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way we cope with it, is what makes the difference.
Virginia Satir

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
Madonna

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
Kiana Tom

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

True power, happiness, and well-being are found in the fine art of gratitude. Being grateful for what you have, for things just as they are.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler  

Sitting silently, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
Osho     

Words transform. Speak only with a good purpose. Say only things that serve you and others. Choose your words wisely.
Robert G. Alle

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
Baba Ram Dass

He or she who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao-Tzu 

Better than a thousand useless words is one single word that gives peace.
The Dhammapada

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Scott Adams

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have eyes to see them…
John Ruskin

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
Earl Gray Stevens

Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.
Native American Proverb

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
M. Scott Peck

Be kind, and think about people around you.
Betty White

A walk in nature walks the soul back home.
Mary Davis

Family is the most important thing in the world.
Princess Diana

The best way to persuade people is with your ears--by listening to them.
Dean Rusk

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An overall guideline might be this: When in doubt, always err on the side of compassion.
God through Neale Donald Walsch

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Robert Baden-Powell

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box.
Robert Fulghum

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
Ann Lander 

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson

My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.
Paul Dunn

When you forgive, you in no way change the past -- but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison

The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.
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Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Compassion never ends, love never stops, patience never runs out in God’s world. Only in the world of man is goodness limited.
In My World, goodness is endless.
God through Neale Donald Walsch

So many years of education, yet nobody ever taught us how to love ourselves and why it’s important.
Ralph Smart

It’s not the load that weighs you down, it’s the way you carry it.
C.S. Lewis

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours!   
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
Teddy Roosevelt

Love gives all and requires nothing.
God through Neale Donald Walsch

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breath and have the faith that everything will work out.

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If you laugh a lot, when you get older, your wrinkles will be in the right place.
Andrew Maso 

You’re never fully dressed without a smile.
Anni 

Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.
Maya Angelou

Be kind to everyone…Always.
Willie Garson 

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.
Dr. Seuss

Spend the day appreciating every little thing that comes your way, and you’ll end the day feeling deeply grateful for your life.
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An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.
Goi Nasu

People have a right to basic survival. Even if they do nothing. Even if they contribute nothing. Survival with dignity is one of the basic rights of life. I have given you enough resources to be able to guarantee that to everyone. All you have to do is share.
God through Neale Donald Walsch

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Elvis Presley

You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.
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Being a human is a mess. The more that we recognize that, the more we can feel better about our own messes.
Ann Garvin

Fall seven times and stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln

You only have control over three things in your life – the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take.
Jack Canfield  

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
Rumi

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

I mean you can’t lose in this game. You can’t go wrong. It’s not part of the plan. There’s no way not to get where you are going. There’s no way to miss your destination. If God is your target, you’re in luck, because God is so big, you can’t miss.
God through Neale Donald Walsch

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu

You're the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Maya Angelou

If you would like to be broken open – if you want to pursue a Phoenix Process of the highest order – I would recommend raising children. Parenthood is a clumsy yet majestic dance in the flames.
Elizabeth Lesser

In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself.
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Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day.
Alice Morse Earle

Nothing gets done when we’re telling each other how wrong we are. Just ask yourself: Has anyone ever really changed your opinion by getting in your face and yelling at you or saying to you how wrong you are? Usually that doesn’t change hearts or minds.
Mike Enzi

Life’s deepest experience is the joy that fills our hearts when we love and give to others.
Elizabeth Lesser

We must do everything because it brings us joy and peace, from the job we have to the clothes we wear.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes 

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.                                                                                                              Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John R. Wooden

Life is about being, not doing.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler 

For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Andy Rooney

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.  
Michael J. Fox

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot, and realize how blessed you are for what you have.
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to leave the world a better place... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Erich Fromm

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

If we don’t go looking for what lies beneath the surface of our lives, the soul comes looking for us.
Elizabeth Lesser

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return but because of who you are.
Harold S. Kushner

Your intuition knows what to do. The trick is getting your head to shut up so you can hear.
Louise Smith

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.  
Henry Ford and Edward Everett Hal 

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius

Laughing is, and will always be, the best form of therapy.
Dau Voire  

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo F. Buscaglia

The best place in the world is inside a hug.
J. Quest

No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart
Shanina Shai 

My definition of success is only one thing: joy. If you don’t have joy, you don’t have success.
Deepak Chopra

Your greatness is not what you have, but in what you give.
Alice Hocker

One of the biggest mistakes we make is assuming that other people think the way we think.
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I believe that the only true religion consists of having a good heart.
Dalai Lam 

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
Sukhraj S. DhillonI

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a president and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.
Wayne Dyer

If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.
Julian Assange

One of the biggest fears of dying is the fear of being alone. But you are never alone. People you have loved will be there to help you.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett 

Get mad, then get over it.
Colin Powell

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. And the grace of God is the glue.
Eugene O’Neill

If you don’t feel a peace, it’s time to surrender
If life doesn’t flow, it’s time to surrender
If you feel that you’re responsible for everything, it’s time to surrender
If you want to change what cannot be changed, it’s time to surrender
Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler 

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi

We can learn to live lives where anger is a feeling that passes, not a state of being.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler

Live life with no regrets and no resentments.
Whatever happened in the past, forgive yourself and others. Choose love.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
C. JoyBell C.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison