What do you see?

Perspective shows beauty. 

Forever is composed of now. 

~ Emily Dickinson

Respect

Respect creativity where it happens. 

Men are respectable only as they respect. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Important Moments

Adjust the plan for what happens spontaneously; it is important. 

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. 

~ Henry Miller 

Create your future

Be aware of the present to create a better future. 

The past cannot be changed. The future is in your power. 

~ Mary Pickford 

Courage

Have the courage to dream.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. 

~ C.S. Lewis 

Interesting

Continue with what is interesting to you. 

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. 

~ Clara Schumann

Begin

Begin at the beginning. 

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. 

~ Jose Ortega y Gasset

Alone

Some alone time is good, healthy and useful. 

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. 

~ Thomas Jefferson 

Directly to the Soul

Simple beauty is all around you. 

There is nothing that makes its way more directly 

to the soul than beauty. 

~ Leo Tolstoy 

Patterns in Life

Recognize the patterns in life. 

Choose to maintain them or change them. 

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. 

~ Junichiro Tanizaki 

What do you sing?

Sing about your journey. 

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops...at all. 

~ Emily Dickinson 

Decide What Makes You Happy

Decide what makes you happy;

 Do what makes you happy;

Be happy. 

There are two ways of being happy. We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. 

~ Benjamin Franklin 

Plant a Seed

Nurture Nature 

A new word is like a fresh seed sown 

on the ground of the discussion. 

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sing A Song

Listen to the song in your heart. 

Those who wish to sing always find a song. 

~ Plato 

Learn Daily

Learn from everything & everyone. 

Those who know how to think need no teachers. 

~ Mahatma Ghandi 

Greetings

Greet those who travel along the same path.

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 Buscaglia

Little Things

Every little thing counts. 

Fairy roses, fairy things, turn out sometimes troublesome things. 

~ William Makepeace Thackeray 

Excited About Life

Excitement & enthusiasm are contagious. 

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning, you're not old. 

~ Rosalyn Yalow 

Beyond Reality

Beyond what is right in front of you, is your dream. Reach for it. 

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. 

~ Napoleon Hill 

Shine

Be the Sunshine. 

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, 

and man cannot live without love. 

~ Max Muller 

Solutions

Nature offers solutions.

All life is an experiment. 

The more experiments you make the better.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Vast Truth

Live Boldly. 

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. 

~ Isaac Newton 

Healing

With time there can be healing. 

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. 

~ Marcel Proust 

Grow by Experience

With each experience grow & learn. 

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. 

~ Samuel Smiles

Keep Going

Just keep moving forward! 

They can because they think they can. 

~ Virgil 

Reflection

Take time to review the situation. 

He that will not reflect is a ruined man. 

~ Asian Proverb 

What do you wish to accomplish?

Consistent even progress leads to Solid Happiness. 

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. 

Correct Thinking

Think Correctly. Be Happy. 

To find yourself, think for yourself. 

~ Socrates 

Be Present

Be Present in Today. 

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. 

~ James Dean 

Dream Life

Dream Big. Dream Happy. 

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. 

~ Henry David Thoreau