Breath of life

Where there is love there is life. 

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Breathe in love. 

Right Heart

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt 

The right heart will lead to the right actions. 

What do you see?

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. 

~ Henry David Thoreau 

In the city, it can be rare to notice nature all around. 

Ebb and flow

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow 

in our veins of happiness and unhappiness. 

~ Virginia Woolf 

Where inside does your happiness live? 

One Moment

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. 

~ Pearl S Buck 

Focus on one moment at a time.  

Find Bliss

To be happy – one must find one’s bliss. 

~ Gloria Vanderbilt

What makes you truly happy? 

Go Wrong

Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. 

~ Voltaire 

When things go wrong, choose to correct them. 

Fresh Start

Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.

 ~ LM Montgomery 

Each day is a fresh start. 

Finding Love

 We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – 

but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

~ Walter Anderson 

Do you include love and joy on your list of goals. 

Smile

We can live without religion and meditation, 

but we cannot survive without human affection.

~ Dalai Lama 

Smile: save a life.

That's logic

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, 

and merciless to fallacy in logic. 

~ Thomas Huxley 

Think through decisions before making them, rather than regretting them after. 

Music

Music is the shorthand of emotion. 

~ Leo Tolstoy 

Let music move you. 

Friends

The best time to make friends is before you need them. 

~ Ethel Barrymore

A real friend tells you the truth. 

Want

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, 

for there is never want where there mind is satisfied.  

~ Lucretis 

To everything a purpose. 

Learn more

There is frequently more to learn from the questions of a child than from the discourses of a man. 

~ John Locke

An open mind learns for every situation. 

Hope wins

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. 

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. 

~ Helen Keller 

Move forward with hope for a better day. 

Stung

When you go in search of honey you must expect to get stung by bees. 

~ Joseph Joubert 

Consider the plus and the minus of every situation. 

So What

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favourite things to say, So what! 

~ Andy Warhol 

If you can't do anything about it, why worry. 

Love is

Love is friendship set on fire. 

~ Jeremy Taylor 

Be genuine in every action. 

Getting Better

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? 

~ Rumi 

Make yourself a better you every day. 

The Art of Being

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. 

~ Gautama Buddha 

Great awareness comes when the mind and body are one. 

Listen

Without music, life would be a mistake. 

~ Friedrich Nietzche 

Feel the emotions in music. 

Real Honesty

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has net with the just criticism 

that honesty is not a policy. The real honest man is honest 

from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

~ Robert E Lee 

Do what is right because it is right. 

Gain Respect

Knowledge will give you power but character respect.

~ Bruce Lee 

Virtues light the way on the path of Solid Happiness. 

Faith to Believe

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble 

but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

~ Norman Vincent Peale 

Know what you can and cannot do. 

Life

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, 

and he who understand it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

~ Henry David Thoreau 

Participate in life; don't just observe it. 

Be Yourself

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. 

~ Oscar Wilde 

Better yourself: the more you will like you. 

Rise up

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Keep walking toward your goals. 

New Year Goals

Picture yourself in your mind’s eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you’ll be doing when you’ve reached your goal.

~ Earl Nightingale 

Design a plan. Work the plan. 

Fly

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. 

~ Leonardo da Vinci 

Heaven waits. 

Happy 2014

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

~ Leo Buscaglia

Make 2014 the best year yet.