more thoughts to heal...
to soothe... to inspire


"set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it"

Brian Tracy


"you are responsible for your intention, not your reception"

Amy E. Smith


"life is the dancer and you are the dance"

Eckhardt Tolle


"never apologize for showing feelings. when you do so, you apologize for the truth"

Benjamin Disraeli


"you can choose to believe in anything, and that includes believing in yourself"

Don Miguel Ruiz


"the deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain"

Kahlil Gibran


"the greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to ourselves"

Michel De Montaigne


"go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you've imagined"

Henry David Thoreau


"the most courageous act is still to think for yourself...aloud"

Coco Chanel


"when the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift"

Saul Bellow


"whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  boldness has genius, power and magic in it"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"i am here to live out loud"

Emile Zola


"you have to believe in yourself. that's the secret"

Charlie Chaplin


"and the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom"

Anais Nin


"to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

Oscar Wilde


"i'm not in this world to live up to your standards and you're not in this world to live up to mine"

Bruce Lee


"the best way to predict the future is to create it"

Abraham Lincoln


"how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world"

Anne Frank


"when you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself"

Paulo Coehlo


"you have the right to be yourself....here and now"

Jonathon Livingston Seagull


"the creative adult is the child who survived"

La Reina Rata


"the only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be"

Ralph Waldo Emerson


"above all, don't fear difficult moments. the best comes from them"

Rita Levi~Montalcini


"no teacher, preacher, parent, friend or wiseman can decide what's right for you~just listen to the voice that speaks inside"

Shel Silverstein


"be fearlessly authentic"

Shannon Alder


"the only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things"

Veronique Vienne


"you had the power all along"

Glinda the Good Witch~Wizard of Oz


"the pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, the realist adjusts the sails"

William Arthur Ward


"do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace"

14th Dalai Lama


"love is the great miracle cure. loving ourselves works miracles in our lives"

Dr. Louise Hay


"if you don't allow a feeling to begin, you also don't let it end"

Geneen Roth


"you can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf"

Jon Kabat-Zinn


"if you don't acknowledge what you've been through—where are you coming from?"

Dr. Susan Duma


"there is nothing you need to do. there is nothing you need to be, except who you really are"

Don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements


"somewhere in my youth or childhood I must have done something good"

Sound of Music


“the truth is like a lion...set it free and it will defend itself”

Augustine


“the curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change”

Carl Rogers


“if you don't like the road you're on—start paving another one”

Dolly Parton


“we all wear two faces. what counts is what they mask”

Batman


“you need a good support system in order to heal”

13 Reasons Why


the devil whispers “you can't withstand the storm”  the warrior responds
“I am the storm”

Unknown