Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. —James Allen People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They ... Read more
Kindness and Compassion
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is ... Read more
Learning and Growth
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors —Louisa May Alcott I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's ... Read more
Letting Go
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. —Buddha Of ... Read more
Life and Living
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. —Alfred Adler When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that ... Read more
Living with a Positive Attitude
Living with a positive attitude paints your world in bright colors and attracts positive energy. Here's what you need to do: Realize you have the ... Read more
lone • li • ness
if you pause to listen carefully you can hear the silence in my house fan blades whirl above to ease the buttery warmth of summer days gone wild as ... Read more
Loneliness
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. —Brendan Francis I used to think the worst ... Read more
Love and Relationships
I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and ... Read more
Loving Myself
I wish I had always felt like this somewhere between early and late feeling pure and at peace gazing in the mirror staring hard at roots and eyes ... Read more
Loving Yourself
A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be ... Read more
Making Lemonade
You know the old saying: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. It’s relatively easy to be positive, motivated, and engaged when all is going ... Read more
Making Mistakes
Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. —Weston H. Agor There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on. —William Blake As ... Read more
Mean Brother Rising
Mean brother rising like a werewolf moon from somewhere under my bed. I remember it well. I hated the price. At my expense, a month’s worth of ... Read more
Miracle Man
He stands tall beneath an emerald canopy of aged pine strong in body mind and spirit he is at one with nature dark eyes miss nothing in the wooded ... Read more
Miracles
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see. The reward for this faith is to see what you believe. —St. Augustine When the first baby laughed for the ... Read more
Mommy, You OK?
I read somewhere once that the only way to know true happiness is to experience deep sorrow. I’ve had my share of pain. I watched my parents die and ... Read more
Music
When the music changes, so does the dance. —African proverb Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is ... Read more
My Heaven on Earth
"All that in this delightful garden grows, should happy be, and have immortal bliss." —Edmond ... Read more
My Reiki Trade
I am usually on the giving end energy there my prayer in place hands warm with gentle touch eager to please and ease the tensions of his day. Tonight ... Read more
Native American Symbolic Circles
"Love settles within the circle, embracing it and thereby lasting forever, turning within itself." —Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux The Sacred ... Read more
Native American Wisdom
The Great Spirit is in all things: He is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us; that ... Read more
No Options
Shattered to bits like a broken mirror scattered shards too small to fit lying in pieces like missing parts to a puzzle never found two hearts of a ... Read more
Oceanwave
We came together fingers laced like parts of a puzzle on me like paint on the wall shadows played my heart clung to his words dripping with honey bees ... Read more
One Last Night
“Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.” —Sylvia Robinson Be still take care my bleeding heart the end ... Read more
Open Mind, Open Heart
If you want to live the peaceful life you imagine, you must start now. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on ... Read more
Out of Sight
"Out of sight, out of mind." —John Heywood, 1562 While I was gone lilacs bloomed in another place a joke was told and someone laughed. Now the ... Read more
Patience and Perseverance
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. —John Quincy Adams We are what we ... Read more
Poetry and Poems
Quotes, proverbs, and other words of wisdom on poets, poems, and prose With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a ... Read more
Regret
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have ... Read more
River Song
I hold a piece of calm here by the shore to skim along his prose like smooth stone. . . . He says he waits for me in his world . . . He tugs and pulls ... Read more
Senses Affected
Disappointment is a man you wanted to love who did not feel the same. Smells like sour milk or funeral flowers. Sounds like a plead quiet and ... Read more
Serendipity
Anticipation laced with expectations and a wary heart blinded breathless by the sunlight melted into calm ease when I saw him smile. Him—pleased? And ... Read more
Silence
Give me the loneliest spot on earth, Where not a living step shall come; And not a form of human birth Shall break the quiet of my home. —Eliza ... Read more
Singing in the Rain
It's raining . . . a cold, steady rain that wouldn't be half-bad if the wind wasn't blowing like mad. I'm choosing to stay positive. Once indoors ... Read more
Slow Down to Savor Life
I've been known to tell people that I'm so busy, I don't have time to breathe. It might be an exaggeration, but there are some days when I simply have ... Read more
Something Blue
O, the joy of spring! Look what I found tucked away in the big blue spruce in our front yard. “To find the universal elements enough; to find the ... Read more
Sonrisas in June
I have no clothes. Nothing fits. I’ve lost a little weight. OK . . . not some . . . quite a bit. They say I’m looking great. They ask me what my ... Read more
Success and Failure
Eighty percent of success is showing up. —Woody Allen Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me ... Read more
Talent and Creativity
All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise. —Anne Bronte Everybody is a genius, but if ... Read more