Contentment

"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place."

The Sun

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."
~Pablo Picasso~ 

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
~Buddha~

 "When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."
~Wilma Rudolph~

Tucson

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
~Charlotte Whitton~

Twain

"In twenty years, you will be more disappointed by what you didn't do than by what you did."

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

Grow

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~Alice Walker

Acceptance

“Accept, then act. Whatever the present moment contains, embrace it as if you had chosen it. This will miraculously change your whole life.” ~Eckhart Tolle

Who you Truly are

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ~Carl Jung

Simple

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~Confucius

Anaïs Nin

“When one is pretending the entire body revolts.”

Sylvia Plath

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”

Chinese Proverb

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”

Steve Maraboli

“Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”

Morissette

"I'll give you countless amounts of outright acceptance, if you want it.

I will give you encouragement to choose the path that you want, if you need it.

You can speak of anger and doubts your fears and freak outs, and I'll hold it.

You can share your so-called shame filled accounts of times in your life, and I won't judge it.

And, there are no strings attached to it.

You can ask for space for yourself and only yourself, and I'll grant it.

You can ask for freedom as well or time to travel, and you'll have it.

You can ask to live by yourself or love someone else, and I'll support it.

You can ask for anything you want anything at all, and I'll understand it.

And, there are no strings attached to it

I bet you're wondering when the next payback shoe will eventually drop.

I bet you're wondering when my conditional police will force you to cough up.

I bet you wonder how far you have now danced you way back into debt.

This is the only kind of love, as I understand it, that there really is.

You can express your deepest of truths even if it means I'll lose you, and I'll hear it.

You can fall into the abyss on your way to your bliss, I'll empathize with.

You can say that you have to skip town to chase your passion, and I'll hear it,

You can even hit rock bottom have a mid-life crisis, and I'll hold it.
And, there are no strings attached

You owe me nothing for giving the love that I give

You owe me nothing for caring the way that I have

I give you thanks for receiving, it's my privilege

And you owe me nothing in return."

Smith

"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."

Hate

"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law." ~James Baldwin~

James Baldwin

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."

Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

Ram Dass

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

Rumi

"Whoever is calm and sensible is insane!"

Jung

"The basis of all neurosis is the avoidance of legitimate suffering."

Anniversary

"You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free" ~Thich Nhat Hanh~

William Blake

"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."

Maya

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”

clever

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~Rumi~

Forget Safety

“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.” ~Rumi~

Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.”

Rabi'a

"I am fully qualified to work as a doorkeeper, and for this reason: What is inside me, I don't let out; What is outside me, I don't let in. If someone comes in, he goes right out again-- He has nothing to do with me at all. I am a doorkeeper of the Heart, not a lump of wet clay."

R Emerson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment"

proverbs 22:7

"Just as the rich rule the poor, 

so the borrower is slave to the lender."

Rumi

"The cure for pain is in the pain"