"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."

Compassion is not a religous business, it is a human business.

Happy Birthday Mom

"Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others."

Happiness is not something ready made, it comes from your own actions.

"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space."

Old Friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful.

The more we care for the happiness of others the happier we will be.

Dalai Lama

Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, peforming an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existance.

Hana Rose Zadra

Reach for your dreams and they will reach for you.

The Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

David Brower

There is more inside you than you dare think.~David Brower

The Buddha

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

Jean Houston

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

The Buddha

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Katherine Anne Porter

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage to fulfill it.

Buddha

Live in Joy, In love,

Even among those who hate.

Live in joy, In health,

Even among the afflicted.

Live in joy, In peace,

Even among the troubled.

Look within.

Be still.

Free from fear and attachment,

Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

David McNally

The willingness to create a new vision is a statement of your belief in your potential

Buddha

One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?"

"No", answered Buddha.

"Then are you a healer?"

"No", Buddha replied.

"Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.

"No, I am not a teacher."

"Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated.

"I am awake", Buddha replied.

Gertrude Stein

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Keorapetse Kgositsile

What you already know is merely a good departure point.

Zen Buddhist Proverb

Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.

After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.

Dan Zadra

The dream is not up there in the sky or the stars. It's right here in your heart.~Dan Zadra

K.T. Jong

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

Polly Adler

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.

Buddha

There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred,

No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart,

And no joy like the joy of freedom.

Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions,

And freedom your greatest joy.

Look within.

Be still.

Free from fear and attachment,

Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

Elizabeth David

Dreaming is a way of traveling hopefully.

H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

Marsha Norman

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

H.H. The 14th Dalai Lama

Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.