"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."
— Laozi

"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
— Audrey Hepburn

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. "
— Oprah Winfrey

"May the sun
bring you new energy by day
May the moon
softly restore you by night
May the rain
wash away your worries
May the breeze
blow new strength into your being
May you walk
gently through the world and know
its beauty all the days of your life."
— Apache Blessing

"try and expect nothing,
but be OPEN for anything.
Don't look far for happiness,
but never settle for anything less.
"
— C. S

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."
— Edith Wharton

"You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others."
— Chinese Proverb

""There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

-The Art of Mending"


"
— Elizabeth Berg

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou

"Try a little harder to be a little better."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
— Gustave Flaubert

"Always do what you are afraid to do."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self Reliance)

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a journey, not a destination."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every artist was first an amateur. "
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson