You can accomplish great things in your life by asking the simple question,

“Will this step take me closer to what currently nourishes me?”

That question implies that there is room fo change, and that

you have permission to change your path.

–Marney Makridakis

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

– Dr. Seuss

Trust your hunches.

They’re usually based on facts

filed away just below the conscious level.

–Dr. Joyce Brothers

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line

between work and play.

–Arnold Toynbee

Your only obligation
in any lifetime is to
be true to yourself.
Being true to anyone else
or anything else
is not only impossible,
but the mark of a false messiah.

– Richard Bach

There is so much in the world for us all

if we only have the eyes to see it,

and the heart to love it,

and the hand to gather it to ourselves.

–L. M. Montgomery

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

–Carl Jung

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,

the master calls a butterfly.

–Richard Bach

Nothing is worth more than this day.

–Goethe

My definition of success has nothing to do with what I do,

or what I have,

it’s about who I am being.

–Barbara L. Lazarony

To transform from the caterpillar

to the butterfly

you must change your mindset

to KNOW that you can fly.

–Barbara L. Lazarony

How?

Of course you don’t know yet.

But allow yourself to imagine…

and in due time little one,

all will be revealed!

–Barbara L. Lazarony

On being true to yourself

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself

any direction you choose.

You’re on your own.

And you know what you know.

And YOU are the guy

who’ll decide where to go.

–Dr. Suess

To be fully alive

fully human

and completely awake

is to be continually thrown

out of the nest.

–Pema Chodron

Year’s end is neither
an end nor a beginning
but a going on,
with all the wisdom
that experience can instill in us.

–Hal Borland

One resolution I have made,
and try always to keep, is this:
To rise above the little things.

– John Burroughs

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self.

All sin is easy after that.

–Pearl Bailey

Ideas are a dime a dozen.

People who implement them are priceless.

–Mary Kay Ash

Trying without doing is wishing rather than choosing.

You either have a plan in place or you are choosing not to act.

–David Richo

Trust can grow with practice,

especially that of choosing to be trustworthy,

whether or not others may be.

–David Richo

You are what you think about all day.

-Allen Ginsberg

There is no chance,

no destiny,

no fate,

that can circumvent

or hinder

or control 

the firm resolve

of a determined soul.

–Ella Wheller Wilcox

Be conscious of what you say to yourself–

and others–

because when you change your language,

you change your life.

–Jessica Weiner

A good time for laughing is when you can.

–Jessamyn West

Once you decide what you want, you make a commitment to that decision.

–Oprah Winfrey

A great wind is blowing,

and that gives you either

imagination or a headache.

–Catherine II

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

–Phyllis Bottome

Some questions don’t have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

–Katherine Graham

If you want to be happy,
set a goal that
commands your thoughts,
liberates your energy,
and inspires your hopes.

– Andrew Carnegie

I discovered I always have choices even if it’s only a choice of attitude.

–J. Kowls

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

–Eleanor Roosevelt

For when I can love all of me,
I will love all of you.

– Debbie Ford

By choosing not to allow
parts of ourselves to exist,
we are forced to expend
huge amounts of psychic energy
to keep them beneath the surface.

– Debbie Ford

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves.

–Sarah Ban Breathnach

Honk if you like peace and quiet.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

To err is human, to arr is pirate.

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You’re never too old to wear something silly.

The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!

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We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

(Boy, we’ve got some big shoes to fill!)

Happiness is not an accident.

Nor is it something you wish for.

Happiness is something you design.

–Jim Rohn

When we learn how to be truly present

with our joy and our sorrow,

with our longing and our desires,

layer upon layer of our selves

and the world are revealed.

– Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Go confidently in the
direction of your dreams!
Live the life you’ve imagined.

– Henry David Thoreau

If you could write a new story about yourself, what would it be?

A fairy tale,

A romance,

An action adventure,

A Whodoneit,

or

A kitchen Sink drama?

–Barbara L. Lazarony

ON A DAY WHEN THE WIND IS PERFECT

On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a
day.

My eyes are like the sun that makes promises;
the promise of life
that it always
keeps

each morning.

The living heart gives to us as does that luminous sphere,
both caress the earth with great
tenderness.

This is a breeze that can enter the soul.
This love I know plays a drum.  Arms move around me;
who can contain their self before my beauty?

Peace is wonderful,
but ecstatic dance is more fun, and less narcissistic;
gregarious He makes our lips.

On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open
and the love starts.

Today is such
a day.

–Rumi

Love does not just sit there,

like a stone;

it had to be made,

like bread,

remade all the time,

made new.

–Ursula K. Le Guin

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.
–Ursula K. Le Guin

As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget
that the highest appreciation
is not to utter words,
but to live by them.

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy