No matter what has transpired in your life up to this point, no matter what you are facing, no matter what feels “wrong,” you are fundamentally okay, worthy, and secure in this very moment, even if you don’t know it or feel it...

~Jon Kabat-Zinn



When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step into the darkness of the unknown. Faith is knowing that one of two things will happen. There will be solid ground to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

  ~Author Unknown



There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle.

~Albert Einstein



Problems call forth our courage & our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage & our wisdom.  When we desire to encourage the growth of the human spirit, we challange & encourage the capacity to solve problems...

~Scott Peck



It is better to light candles than to curse the darkness.
It is better to plant seedsthan to accuse the earth.
The world needs all of our power and love and energy,
and each of us has something that we can give.
The trick is to find it and use it,to find it and give it away.
So there will always be more.We can be lights for each other,
and through each other's illuminationwe will see the way.
Each of us is a seed,a silent promise,
and it is always spring.

~Merle Shain.



A crisis is a gift, an opportunity, and perhaps a manifestation that life loves us, by beckoning us to go beyond the dance we presently perform...
~Leslie Lebeau



The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering...and have found their way out of the depths.  These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with
compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.

~Elisabeth Kubler Ross




The trials and tribulations of ordinary life are quite possibly the best teachers we can have. These are our regular opportunities for growth, times of exploring ways to deepen our faith and hope, of more fully understanding our journey, of responding to questions of ultimate purpose. Quite literally these are our most outstanding opportunities to renew the soul.

~Jay B. Heyman




Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow.
~May Sarton



When you get into a tight place and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and the time
that the tide will turn.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe




Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

~Tori Amos



Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

~Helen Keller



Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

~Gary Zukav



What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

~Thomas Crum




"Courage does not always roar.  Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I WILL TRY AGAIN TOMORROW...

~Mary Anne Radmacher




Everything will be okay in the end...If it's not okay then
it's not the end.

~Unknown




In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.

— Stuart Wilde




Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

~Corita Kent




Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

~ Lesley Hazelton




The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

~ Ben Okri




Tragedies serve as an express elevator to spirit.

~Dan Millman




Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

~ Charles Jones




Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

~ Jerry Gilles




You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

~Dan Millman



If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.

~Bhagavad-Gita




Hate is not conquered by hate. Hatred is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.

~Dammapada, Buddhist scripture





Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

~Kahlil Gibran





Your life is a sacred journey. And it is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way. You are on the path... exactly where you are meant to be right now.

~Caroline Adams




Tell me what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
~Mary Oliver