Keep On Keeping On

“Keep on beginning and failing.

Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose--

Not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”


-Anne Sullivan

Welcome It All

"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
Some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
Who violently sweep your house
Empty of its furniture,
Still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
For some new delight."

-Rumi, 13th century mystic

Scatter Joy

"Scatter Joy"

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams Come True

"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true."

-Richard Bach

Accepting Others

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."

-Anne Frank

Go For It!

"What would you attempt to do
if you KNEW you could not fail?"

-unknown

Overcoming Resistance

"Kites rise highest against the wind--not with it."

-Sir Winston Churchill

Navigating Life's Choices

"It's like the man who comes to the tree at the fork in the road and says, 'Which way shall I go, this way or that?' Go! Take one way and go!"
-Guru Rhh

You Are Always Doing Your Best

“Now that you have reached a new level of being, you may be tempted to look back at the past with regret. You may think of the many higher, more loving ways you could have handled some things. Yet those very incidents provided you with the growth that allows you to now see a better way of behaving.

…Everything that happens is meant to help move you into your greater self…If it had not been for those incidents in the past you would not be who you are now.”

-Sanaya Roman, Living With Joy

Taking Yourself Lightly

"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous."

-Margot Fonteyn

Making a Fresh Start

"Transcendence is the power to be born anew, to make a fresh start. to turn over a new leaf, to begin with a clean slate, to enter into a state of grace, to have a second chance.

Transcendence makes no reference to the past, whether your past has been overflowing with victories or filled with defeats. When you enter a state of transcendence you are able to create a new life, unburdened by both the victories and the defeats of the past.

Transcendence is more than just the accurate realization that the past is over. It is also a realignment of all dimensions of yourself with the very source of your life."

-Robert Fritz

Getting Back In Balance

"We must not...ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot forsee."

-Marian Wright Edelman

Opportunity Is Knocking!

"If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page."

-Mark Houlahan

Listening To Yourself

"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it, it got even stronger..."

-Saul Bellow

Pampering Ourselves

"Yes, there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."

-Kahlil Gibran

Giving Thanks

"I thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes."

-e.e. cummings

Living Your Passion

"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."

-Anais Nin

Honoring Your Truth

"Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives."

-Sara Paddison

Being Your Own Best Friend

"To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance."

-Oscar Wilde

Giving Yourself Friends

"A friend is a present you give yourself."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Awakening To Your Desires

“Imagine living one day from the center of your being, from the center of love, doing exactly what you want--
releasing everybody’s desires for you, bringing any responses to them into your heart center and...doing what is loving to yourself. Picture this now.”

-Sanaya Roman

Loving What Is

"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is 'the quiet acceptance of what is.'"

-Wayne Dyer

Accepting Your Love

”If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.”

-Louise L. Hay

Celebrating Your Beauty

"People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."

-St. Augustine

Being Simply Happy

"As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full."

-Yogananda

Loving What You Do

"...for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?"

And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

-Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios

Being True To Yourself

"Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer."

-Barbara Kingsolver