The only reason to pay any attention to history is to make the now and the future better. -- Alan Cohen

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievementof one's values." --Ayn Rand

"We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. - Anne Frank

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." - Carl Jung

“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” -- Abraham H. Maslow

"You cannot help people by permanently doing for them, what they could and should do themselves." --Abraham Lincoln

"Do not judge and you will never be mistaken."
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Nothing is good or bad but by comparison."
-- Thomas Fuller

"The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know." - Blaise Pascal

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations. ~ Elliott Larson

Truth is compelling not by argument, but by experience. - Alan Cohen

CBS Report on the Dangers to Liver of High-Fructose Corn Syrup http://ping.fm/msXG4

The best index to a person's character is . . . how he treats people who can't do him any good. -- Abigail Van Buren

“The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?”
-- Oprah

"Each one has to find peace from within. And peace – to be real – must be unaffected by outside circumstances." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal."
Mike Ditka

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." Wayne Dyer

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." -- Albert Einstein

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him." Henry Stimson

That best portion of a good man’'s life,
his little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Chinese proverb

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."
Willie Nelson

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself." Galileo

One of the best ways to realize that age is an illusion is to have your body get older and realize that you are who you always have been. - Alan Cohen

"Love is not only something you feel. It is something you do." David Wilkerson

"Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts." -- Elbert Hubbard

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and
more numerous than those of the body. - Cicero

"Happiness is wanting what you want, getting what you get, and hoping that the two will coincide." -- Howard Mumford Jones

Actions, projects, relationships, and institutions founded in truth flourish. Those not founded in truth collapse. Thank goodness.Alan Cohen

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement & methodical physical exercise save & preserve it. Plato

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." - Seneca

"Smile, it's free therapy." -- Doug Horton

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." - Buddha

"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance." -- John Petit-Senn

"Heaven on earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find." -- Wayne Dyer

"Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth." - Thich Nhat Hanh

If pleasing people were the key to happiness, you would be happy for doing that by now. - Alan Cohen

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily." Mike Murdock

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
-- Moshe Dayan

"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape."
-- Source Unknown

"Often he who does too much does too little."
-- Italian Proverb

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time." -- Sydney Smiles

"We need to be the change we wish to see in the world." - Mohandas Gandhi

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively
and fearlessly upheld. - Dot Thompson

"Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing."
-- Henriette Anne Klauser

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body." - Seneca

"Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts." -- Eknath Easwaran

"The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Making peace with ourselves is like building an inner house of peace and welcoming the God of peace
to dwell there forever. -- John Dear

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.
- Alan Cohen

"It's not what you do once in a while; it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."
Jenny Craig

"Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends."
Courtland Milloy

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
-- Confucius

"Laughter is the Best Medicine" - http://bit.ly/c7hczm

"Enlightenment is not about imagining figures of light but of making the darkness conscious."
-- C.G. Jung

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Thoreau

To fear or fight evil is to empower evil. - Alan Cohen

"The more you know, the less you need." Aboriginal Saying

Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding
our deepest treasure. - Maria Rainer Rilke

There is no more important step u can take than to define ur life's purpose. It develops ur sense of belonging to our universe.Arnold Patent

Our purpose is hidden in our joy, our inspiration, our excitement. As we act on what shows up in our life our purpose shows up. - James King

"We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier." Walter Savage Landor

All the joy in the world comes from focusing on the well-being of others; all the suffering in the world comes from focusing on our own.unknown

Never give up your quest to find true love - starting with loving yourself. - Alan Cohen

Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard Thurman

God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. -- Empedocles

This Common Food Ingredient Is As Addictive as Cocaine? http://ping.fm/ed865

"A Walk in the Park" - http://bit.ly/c0Sjbs

Your task is not to look for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong

Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision. Brian Tracy

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." Abraham Lincoln

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.
- Richard Carlson

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
- Dalai Lama

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean. Yogananda

Happy International Women's Day - grateful for all the inspiring, loving and strong women I have in my life...

"When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you’re giving it power."
-- Anthony de Mello

"An honest heart possesses a kingdom." - Seneca

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." James Michener

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." ~ Thomas Alva Edison

"Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be." Emmanuel

When you remember that everything is possible, you wield the sword that cuts through mediocrity into magnanimity. -- Alan Cohen

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.
-- J.K. Rowling

'As quoted on Oprah.com -Author & Life Management Expert Vaishali' http://ping.fm/gGVIK

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. *Mark Twain

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. -Dale Carnegie

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way." --Grace Murray Hopper

"There is an essential goodness and sanity in every human being, no matter how insane their outward behaviour might be." - Eckhart Tolle

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ~ Maya Angelou

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." Josh Billings

When you realize that nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you! -- Lao Tse

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.Mother Teresa

Just saw a panel truck for an interior/exterior painting business call "A Brush With Greatness" - so cool...

The responsibility for both present and future is in our own hands. If we live right today, then tomorrow has to be right.-- Eknath Easwaran

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started."-- David Allen

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." -- Don Marquis

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.B T Washington

You are not here to duplicate and replicate. You were born to initiate. -- Alan Cohen

"Throw Away Your Measuring Stick!" - http://bit.ly/cjdLb7

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”

"Life is what I make it, always has been, always will be." Grandma Moses

"Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail."-- John Donne

"Life does not happen to us, it happens from us."
-- Mike Wickett

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."
Katharine Hepburn

Deja vu is your future self doing a past life regression. -- Mellon-Thomas Benedict

"The present moment is always perfect even when we're fighting it mentally, emotionally and physically."
-- Mary Allen

"When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves." -- Victor Frankl

All evil vanishes for he who keeps the sun in his heart. -- Hindu proverb

"Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace." - Buddha

"Michael Jackson - Earth Song [Official Music Video]" - http://bit.ly/bZN2Pr

The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try." -- Malcolm F. MacNeil

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington