Relax

"Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it."

Osho

Choices

"You are your choices."

Seneca

Two options

"At any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety."

Abraham Maslow

Answers

"It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll."

Donald Miller

Value

"Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value."

Albert Einstein

Joy

"Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson."

Alan Cohen

Celebrate

"Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings."

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Into the dark

"Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy."

Elizabeth Gilbert

Find

"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe."

Dalai Lama

Forever

"Forever is composed of nows."

Emily Dickinson

Light from within

"People are like stained glass windows, the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the nights, the brighter the windows."

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Touching ground

"Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground."

Chogyam Trungpa

On Acceptance

The Guest House

"This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond."

Jalal ad-Din Rumi

Grace

"Courage is grace under pressure."

Ernest Hemingway

Leaving Behind

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

Pericles

Awareness

"Only that day dawns to which we are fully awake."

Henry David Thoreau

Love Yourself

‎“Love yourself - accept yourself - forgive yourself - and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”

Leo F. Buscaglia

Mystical Experience

"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science."

Albert Einstein

Reality

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

Philip K. Dick

Each Morning

"Each morning when i open my eyes

I say to myself:

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

I can choose which it shall be.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

Groucho Marx

Manifestation

"When conditions are sufficient, the thing manifests, and when they are not sufficient, the thing remains hidden."

Gautama Buddha

Change the Way

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

Mary Engelbreit

Art of Living

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”

Havelock Ellis

Beauty

"If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us."

Daisaku Ikeda

Whatever

"Whatever the past has been, you have a spotless future."

Unknown

The beginning

"Making the beginning is one third of the work."

Irish Proverb

Fall

"Whenever you fall, pick something up."

Oswald Avery

To live

"To live is to die over and over again."

Pema Chodron

Fight

"Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists."

Eckhart Tolle

Courage

"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

La première répétition

"Mais que peut valoir la vie, si la première répétition de la vie est déjà la vie même?"

Milan Kundera

Coming back

"If going away is what it is to be a monk

then coming back

really

really

is what it is to be a Buddha.

But surely you can only really come back

if you've really gone away."

Ko Un