Courtesy of Alan Ayers
Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
- Leo Buscaglia
We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path,
and we will never be happy if we live someone's else's idea of life.
- James Van Praagh
The greatest gift one can give to another person
is a deeper understanding of life and the ability
to love and believe in self.
-Chantal
The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones
with the most credentials, the most money, or the most awards.
They are the ones that care.
- Charles Schultz
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and
pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
- John Muir
There is not a person on the face of the earth
who can steal your joy, strength, or dream
unless you allow it.
- Ashleigh Austin
Remembered joys are never past.
- James Montgomery
It is such a comfort to drop the tangles of Life
into God's Hands and leave them there.
- Unknown
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a
way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them
and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Listen to the beating of your heart.
The people you love are there inside...
Where all things matter most,
They live on.
- Unknown
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers,
the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters,
and teach some of us more than we can ever learn
from books.
-John Lubbock
Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to dance in the rain!
- Vivian Greene
Quiet Heals.
Adopt the pace of Nature:
Her Secret is Patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All things must come to the soul from its roots,
from where it is planted.
- Saint Teresa of Avila
Live each day in the present, and make it beautiful.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing
because you can only do a little.
- Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845)
Only when the last tree has been felled, the last river
poisoned, and the last fish caught, man will know that he
cannot eat money.
- Cree Saying
(Plant a tree to celebrate a Life well-lived.)
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows
in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in
silence... we need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life,
for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
- Bertrand Russell
There is a common ground that kindred spirits walk...
shared thoughts that forever bind their souls.
- Unknown
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.
Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
And the sky of the sky of a tree called life;
Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide.
And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.
I carry your heart.
I carry it in my heart.
- E.E. Cummings
If you love somebody enough, you can still hear
the laughter after they're gone.
- Unknown
If love could have saved you,
you would have lived forever.
- Unknown
Wherever you go, take your whole heart along.
All that matters is this moment.
... the eyes are the windows of the soul.
- Max Beerbohm
It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast.
Enjoy Life... this is not a rehearsal.
Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.
- Mark Twain
Live as if you were to die tomorrow;
Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
But now I know that the skin just veils the soul
For I have seen, the face of love
The grace of God, the face of love.
- Jewel
(From her song Face of Love,
Joy: A Holiday Collection album)
"What is Real?" asked the Rabbit one day...
"Does it mean having things that buzz inside you
and a stick-out handle?"
"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse.
"It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves
you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but
really loves you, then you become Real."
- Margery Williams, Velveteen Rabbit
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles
between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in
your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just
live in a world but a world lives in you.
- Frederick Buechner
May you take time to reflect with gratitude and to
love and appreciate those whom God has chosen
to cross your Life's path.
- Ashleigh Austin
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- Marcel Proust
I would rather have one rose and a kind word
from a friend while I'm here
than a whole truck load when I'm gone.
Flowers are like people --- if you really love them,
they'll love you back.
- Ashleigh Austin
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
- Old Rose, from Titanic
We try to give what little we have to somebody who hasn't got it,
and maybe they try to give us back some of what they have that
we haven't got. That's what love is. That's all it is.
- Anne Rivers Siddons
Life is precious. There is no time to leave important words unsaid
or a kindness undone.
- Flavia
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently
back to yourself.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past,
your future, the arms of love gather you together.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has
the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of
genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the
other is always maintained and preserved.
- M. Scott Peck
Some people give without asking and remember every kindness.
Perhaps this is love in its purest form.
- Flavia
Many persons have the wrong idea about what constitutes
true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
When we give of ourselves, we share the finest gift of all.
- Flavia
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without
and know we cannot live within.
- James Baldwin
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to
what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your
soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
God determines who walks into your life...
it's up to you to decide who you let walk away,
who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go.
-Unknown
Love never reasons but profusely gives;
gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
and trembles lest it has done too little.
-Hannah Moore
Do small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa
Love is the highest respect.
Love means caring for somebody more than yourself.
It is putting somebody else's pleasure and happiness and
well-being above your own. It is sacrificing yourself for
another and enjoying doing it. It is knowing someone's
every fault and blemish and not caring.
No one can define it; it just is.
- Dorothy Dix (1860-1951)
I believe in the Sun when it is not shining.
I believe in Love even when I cannot feel it.
I believe in God even when He is silent.
The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.
- Leonard Nimoy
Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over,
it became a butterfly.
- Proverb
Life is not measured by the number of breaths
we take, but by the moments that
take our breath away.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the LIFE in your years.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living
tomorrow.
- Euripides
Live so that when your children hear these words
they think of you...
Fairness, Caring, Integrity, Honesty, Love, Trust.
- Anonymous
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains
and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
- Mother Teresa
You don't stop playing because you grow old...
You grow old because you stop playing.
The soul would have no rainbow,
had the eyes no tears.
-John Vance Cheney
Is your heart and spirit bitter or better
because of Life's journeys?
Some people, no matter how old they get,
never lose their beauty - they merely move it
from their faces into their hearts.
- Martin Buxbaum
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced;
live your life so that when you die,
the world cries, and you rejoice.
- Cherokee Saying
A mother holds our hand for a while...
but our heart forever.
Life gives us friends so we can share the growing up...
and growing down and old.
There are no goodbyes of the heart.
Home is where your story begins.
-Annie Danielson
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw,
or hold so fast,
as love can do with a twined thread.
-Robert Burton (1577-1640)
"And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the
mind.
"Caring and seeing with the heart," answered the
soul.
- Flavia Weedn
We are all perpetual students of research and discovery
at the University of Life where we never fully complete
our courses and never receive our diplomas.
I'd rather have roses on my table,
than diamonds on my neck.
Giving up doesn't
always mean you
are weak . . .
Sometimes, it means you are strong
enough to let go.
A friend is someone who knows the song in
your heart . . .
and can sing it back to you even when you
have forgotten the words.
They say it only takes a minute to find
a special person ...
an hour to appreciate them ...
a day to love them ...
but an entire lifetime to forget them.
More to Come!
