Zero Expectations

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have. 

~ Stephen Hawking

Serenity has a direct relationship with the lack of expectations. 

Yes

Thank you for this most amazing day, for the leaping green spirits of trees, and the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. 

~ ee cummings

Say YES.

X

I believe in brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street. 

~ Malcolm X 

To move forward, we need to travel with like-minded people. 

Warm Smile

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. 

~ William Arthur Ward 

Let kindness be your religion. 

Happiness

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that a greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstances but by our disposition. 

~ Martha Washington 

Happy is a choice. 

Victory

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you by angels or demons, heaven or hell. 

~ Buddha 

Small victories as we grow into the person we want to be. 

Universal Law

Live your life as though your every act were 

to become universal law. 

~ Immanuel Kant

Train yourself to think better, act better, be better. 

True Course

Follow your honest convictions and stay strong. 

~ William Thackeray 

Stay true to the course set. 

Smile

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. 

~ Paramahansa Yogananda 

Smile at the day. 

Remember

We do not remember days, we remember moments. 

~ Cesare Pavese

What will you remember from today? 

Quality of Thought

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. 

~ Marcus Aurelius

How is the quality of your inner physical and spiritual life? 

Happiness

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind. 

~ Ovid 

What do you need to free yourself from? 

Plenty

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. 

~ William Feather 

Do you stop to smell the flowers? 

Obvious

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. 

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

What obvious fact is blocking your way to happiness? 

Nobody Need Wait

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. 

~ Anne Frank 

What are you waiting for? 

Music

Music creates order out of chaos. 

~ Yehudi Menuhin

Does the music speak to you? 

Love

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. 

~ Oscar Wilde 

Love blooms. 

Kinship

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

~ Mark Rothko

Where do you feel kinship? 

Happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. 

It comes from your own actions. 

~ Dalai Lama 

What actions will lead you to happiness? 

Joy

Find a place inside where there's joy, 

and the joy will burn out the pain. 

~ Joseph Campbell

Is there joy down in your heart? 

Improve

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. 

~ Sir William Jones 

Improvement in small ways makes big changes. 

Honesty

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. 

~ Thomas Jefferson

Do you have the capacity to be honest? 

Grow

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

Grow into a better version of you. 

Fun

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. 

~ Walt Disney 

What is fun for you? 

Energy

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time or any of your space. 

~ Johnny Cash 

Use your energy for good. Correct the past and go forward. 

Happiness

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. 

~ Omar Khayyam

Happy is the byproduct of right action. 

Devotion

Through devotion,your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable. 

~ Saint Frances de Sales 

Devotion to progress. Keep moving forward. 

Comfortable

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. 

~ John F Kennedy

Push through for spiritual growth. 

Being

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. 

~ Joseph Campbell 

In the quiet moments, are you comfortable? 

Answer

It’s where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are. 

~ Joyce Carol Oates 

Accept the evidence of who you are.