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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...

It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.

- Vivian Greene

Every child comes with the message

that God is not yet discouraged of man.

- Rabindranath Tagore

The greatest mistake you can make in life

is to be continually fearing you will make one.

- Elbert Hubbard

If we have no peace,

it is because we have forgotten

that we belong to each other.

- Mother Teresa

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Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is an adventure.

I can only wonder what treasure

awaits at the top of the path.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,

so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

- Joseph Campbell

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

- Rabindranath Tagore

He who is contented is rich.

- Lao Tzu

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

- Lao Tzu

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal

with the intent of throwing it at someone else;

you are the one who gets burned.

- The Buddha

Choose the World You See,

and See the World You Choose.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

- John F. Kennedy

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,

instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

- Judy Garland

Clouds come floating into my life,

no longer to carry rain or usher storm,

but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Rabindranath Tagore

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.

- Helen Keller

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,

you gotta put up with the rain.

- Dolly Parton

The future belongs to those

who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,

of most of the people you see every day,

is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

- Theodore H. White

If you aren't in the moment,

you are either looking forward to uncertainty,

or back to pain and regret.

- Jim Carrey

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

- Joseph Campbell

He who knows others is wise.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

- Lao Tzu

What we think, we become.

All that we are arises with our thoughts.

With our thoughts, we make the world.

- The Buddha

Change what you see,

by changing how you see.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Footprints in the sands of time...

Where have you been?

Where are you going?

Why are you going there?

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

the courage to change the things I can;

and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The essence of life is not in

the great victories and grand failures,

but in the simple joys.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter

for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are never too old to set another goal

or to dream a new dream.

- C. S. Lewis

People only see what they are prepared to see.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

- Aristotle

Individually, we are one drop.

Together, we are an ocean.

- Ryunosuke Satoro

The life of inner peace,

being harmonious and without stress,

is the easiest type of existence.

- Norman Vincent Peale

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

- Bertha Calloway (attributed)

Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A good traveler has no fixed plans,

and is not intent on arriving.

- Lao Tzu

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever you do, do with kindness.

Whatever you say, say with kindness.

Wherever you go, radiate kindness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.

- Yiddish Proverb

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.

- Marianne Williamson

Lord, grant that I might not so much

seek to be loved as to love.

- St. Francis of Assisi

Courage doesn't always roar.

Sometimes courage is the quiet voice

at the end of the day, saying,

"I will try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.

We give our own meaning to time as to life.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.

- Yiddish Proverb

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.

When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,

you can enroll the world.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May the world be kind to you,

and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,

and it is the one flesh of all humankind.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a reflection of intent.

Love reflects love.

Hate reflects hate.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Write your Sad times in Sand,

Write your Good times in Stone.

- George Bernard Shaw

There are no facts, only interpretations.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dance Lightly With Life:

Today is your day to

dance lightly with life,

sing wild songs of adventure,

soar your spirit,

unfurl your joy.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every wall is a door.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you don't know where you're going,

any road will take you there.

- Lewis Carroll

(Alice in Wonderland)

What lies behind us and what lies before us

are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Try a new perspective on diversity.

Across the country and around the world,

we are all one.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love,

there are always miracles.

- Willa Cather

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Helen Keller

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow

and unexpected weather of all sorts -

a gardener still plants.

And tends what they have planted ...

believing that Spring will come.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

He is richest who is content with the least,

for content is the wealth of nature.

- Socrates

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Faith is taking the first step,

even when you don't see the whole staircase.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Play with life, laugh with life,

dance lightly with life,

and smile at the riddles of life,

knowing that life's only true lessons

are writ small in the margin.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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