"Heaven on Earth is a Choice you Must Make, Not a Place we Must Find" ~Wayne Dyer

When you explore the unknown, beautiful things can happen.

Love is the ability & willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves. - Wayne Dyer

"Passion is energy.  Feel the power that comes from focusing on what exites you" - Oprah Winfrey

What is faith then but persistent hope in the midst of relentless Doubt - Andromeda

"Moral convictions may have little to do with moral judgements that one could justify to others in terms of their effects on happiness or suffering.  They arise instead from the neurobiological and evolutionary design of the organs we call moral emotions."

"People have got feelings that give them emphatic moral convictions, and they struggle to rationalise them after the fact."

- the blank slate

"The universal is present in the individual.
Just so, liberation comes from recognising:
the subtle in the gross,
the unity in diversity,
the similarity in differences,
the truth in untruth,
the light in darkness,
the life in death.
This is real liberation."

- Nityananda 1961

"Only those actions which are beyond the scope of the mind have merit." - Bodhidarma

"Impress people with you inquisitive mind, not your vast knowledge"

"One can make love a great deal better when one doesn't speak of love" - Hoosier School-Master 1871

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started.  The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain

"There is nothing wrong with cleaning windows, as long as you make a good job of it." - Anonymous

"Participate or shut up" Plato

"Perseverance is a great element of success.  If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck." - Joseph Addison

"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.  We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. " Wilma Rudolph

"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success.  he can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively." - Anonymous

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps" - David Lloyd George

"In the universe, there is an immeasurable and indescribable source which those that live of the source call intention... and that absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link. Sorcerers are not only concerned with understanding and explaining that connecting link, but they are especially concerned with cleansing it of the numbing effects brought about by all of the concerns of living at ordinary levels of consciousness." Carlos Castaneda

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” - Anonymous

Dalai Lama when asked: “What thing about humanity surprises you the most?” answered:

‘Man Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money; then sacrifices his money to recuperate his health; he is so anxious about the future that he doesn't enjoy the present, as a result he doesn't live in the present or the future; he lives as if he’s never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.’

"We learned a long time ago that there was not a Satan or Devil lurking in the background, but we also learned that everything has an opposite - so what is the opposite of God? So I said to one of the Guides the other day "There is an opposite to everything, and if God is the ultimate "good guy" then there must be an ultimate "bad guy". After a short wait the most beautiful voice I have ever heard said "I am everything" The opposite of course is 'nothing' " . - Anon

"What if you slept, and what if, in your sleep you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? What then?" -- Deepak Chopra

"People will believe what they want to believe, for the reasons they want to believe it. For this reason, the burden of proof may be heaver on those that question the prophet, than those who believe. "

- Nostradamus decoded

“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.” ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“It takes one person to forgive; it takes two people to be reunited.” ~ Lewis B. Smedes ~

“Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” ~ Charles Horton Cooley

“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.“ ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” ~ Amelia Earhart

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” ~ Winston Churchill

“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?” ~ Ayn Rand

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.” ~ Buddha ~

“Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.” ~ Nelson Mandela

An approximate answer to the right question is worth a great deal more than a precise answer to the wrong question. ~ The first golden rule of mathematics, sometimes attributed to John Tukey

“Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” Lyman Abbot

“We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them.” ~ Author Unknown

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for it, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.” - Dr Adrian Rogers 1931 – 2005; Conservative Southern Baptist Pastor

 “Live your own life because you die your own death.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

 

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

 

"You wake up with a dream, and then you kill it every day"

"We adore chaos because we love to produce order."

"If you make all your decisions from a place of love, then you will never again make a wrong choice." ~ Rachel Bermingham ~

"You see, fantasy is what people want, but reality is what people need." Lauryn Hill

"Be creative with today's solutions without creating tomorrow's problems "

"Quiet people aren't the only ones who don't say much. "

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. " - Sydney J. Harris

"There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore... And who always will. So, don’t worry about people from your past, There’s a reason why they didn't make it to your future. "

"Saying goodbye is never easy, but it is a neccessary step to saying hello again." Gohan, Dragonball