"UTOPIA You think there is no Utopia? My dear, you're suffering Myopia! For in this Real World can live The option to take or to give. If you give all your money, your fortune might wane, But in giving your love, you can only gain. For the Source of Love remains so vast You can give it all, yet the wealth will last. When Love is returned, joy has no limit Only your holding back can dim it. Your may not hear me, but I must tell Your create your own Heaven or Hell. The distance is short, a mere foot apart The greatest journey from the head to the heart."

- Gurunam Kaur Khalsa

"True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess."

- Louis Nizer

"ACCEPT Be still--listen, A small voice will Speak to you. Be still --hear, That your challenges will Be smaller, your path Will be smoother. Be still--accept, The invitation from Spirit To step into newness."

- Carolyn W. Darlington

"Give My Soul a Heavenly Hush Let me tarry as I go: if not my feet, my heart be slow. As I run from rush to rush give my soul a heavenly hush -- That I may touch instead of shove, That I may see those needing love. In passing may I leave a glow; of kindly words that help peace grow."

- Gail McCoig Blanton

"The happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a a certain set of attitudes."

- Hugh Downs

"As I see it, every day, you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself."

- Adelle Davis

"The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones."

- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

"Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"A wish to be well is a part of becoming well."

- Lucius Seneca

"Here's your protection for whatever comes: Find something to be happy about every day, and every hour if possible, moment-to-moment, even if only for a few minutes."

- Greg Braden

"You will never be happier than you expect."

- Betty Davis

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."

- Mark Twain

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love."

- Barbara DeAngelis

"Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success."

- Alonzo Newton Benn

"The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body."

- Patrick J. Buchanan

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."

- Anna Sewell (1820-1878), Black Beauty, 1877

"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes."

- Harold B. Lee (1899-1973)

"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations."

- Steve Allen

"Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place."

- Rosalynn Carter

"I slept and dreamt that life was a joy, I awoke and saw that life was service, I acted and behold, service was joy."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."

- The Earl of Chesterfield

"A Better Me The me I wish that I could be Would never harm a soul, Could never speak in angry tones, Or have a selfish goal, And no more wrong or harmful deeds I'd ever want to do, If this perfect ideal me Could be a picture true. The me I wish I could become Will never really be, But simply wanting such a thing Will make a better me."

- Hilda Sanderson

"Maturity is the capacity to love, to care about other people in the broadest sense ... and to continue to increase this capacity beyond our families to the community, to the state, to the nation, and to this shrinking little world."

- Dr. William C. Menninger

"Love as much as you can - it may hurt but it helps us grow. Give all you have - you may be poor but you will be content. Always forgive - your heart cannot afford not to. Teach what you know and learn what you don't - stay open to all you can."

- author unknown

"Love as much as you can - it may hurt but it helps us grow. Give all you have - you may be poor but you will be content. Always forgive - your heart cannot afford not to. Teach what you know and learn what you don't - stay open to all you can."

- author unknown

"Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time."

- Henry Beston

"Every gun that is made,every warship launched,, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than thirty cities ... We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than eight thousand people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

- Dwight David Eisenhower

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."

- Brian Tracy

"The journey is the reward."

- Greg Norman

"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."

- Spanish proverb

"To be ready is very much, to be able to wait is still more, to take advantage of the right moment is all."

- Schnitzler

"Count That Day Lost If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And, counting, find One self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard, One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went-- Then you may count that day well spent. But if, through all the livelong day, You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay-- If, through it all You've nothing done that you can trace That brought the sunshine to one face -- No act most small That helped some soul and nothing cost -- Then count that day as worse than lost."

- George Eliot

"A long journey home... Many lives? Our lessons learned? Perfecting Our Soul!"

- H. Olesky

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people ... and your very flesh shall be a poem."

- Walt Whitman

"TODAY Be grateful now for little things. The flowers, a tree, a bird that sings. For friends and loved ones far and near For health, for strength, for all held dear. And thank the Lord, to whom we pray, Whose love goes with us every day. Just try your best in all you do And the best in turn comes back to you. Be grateful, thankful, loving, kind And joy in living each day you'll find. Whate'er you do, whenever you go, Trust in the Lord. He loves you so."

- Art Murray

"No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"HERMIT CRAB I pick out the shell I want to live in and then its up to me to grow into it."

- unknown

"Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside."

- Eckhart Tolle

"MYSELF I have to live with myself, and so, I want to be fit for myself to know; I want to be able as days go by Always to look myself straight in the eye; I don't want to stand with the setting son And hate myself for the things I've done. I don't want to keep on a closet shelf A lot of secrets about myself, And fool myself as I come and go Into thinking that nobody else will know The kind of man I really am; I don't want to dress myself up in sham. I want to go out with my head erect I want to deserve all men's respect; But here in the struggle for fame and pelf, I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to think as I come and go That I'm bluster and bluff and empty show. I never can hide myself from me, I see what others may never know, I never can fool myself -- and so, Whatever happens, I want to be Self-respecting and conscience free."

- Edgar Albert Guest

"The Beginning of the Beginning The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

- H. G. Wells

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"When there is peace in each person there is peace on earth."

- Michael Roads

"Morning Song Every morning when you rise Sing some merry song; The one that is the cheeriest And brightens up the dawn. Make a smile that's happy With eyes that ever gleam And always keep your spirit Prepared for every dream"

- Joan Stephen

"Service is the rent we pay for living. It is not something to do in your spare time; it is the very purpose of life."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"The Ten Commandments of Mother Earth I. Thou shalt love and honour the Earth for it blesses thy life and governs thy survival. II. Thou shalt keep each day sacred to the Earth and celebrate the turning of its seasons. III. Thou shalt not hold thyself above other living things nor drive them to extinction. IV. Thou shalt give thanks for thy food, to the creatures and plants that nourish thee. V. Thou shalt educate thy offspring for multitudes of people are a blessing unto the Earth when we live in harmony. VI. Thou shall not kill, nor waste Earth's riches upon weapons of war. VII. Thou shalt not pursue profit at the Earth's expense but strive to restore its damaged majesty. VIII. Thou shalt not hide from thyself or others the consequences of thy actions upon the Earth. IX. Thou shalt not steal from future generations by impoverishing or poisoning the Earth. X. Thou shalt consume material goods in moderation so all may share the Earth's bounty."

- Author Unknown

"THE POND You are the pond. Its essence is water. A pebble is thrown into the pond, But it does not change the essence. The pebble floats through the water And lands at the bottom The water is unchanged. The pebble has simply passed through. You are like a pond Whose essence is unlimited love. Anger, resentment may pass through you But your essence is unchanged, A ripple upon the surface A sensation, a feeling, passing through. Return to your essence. You are unchanged by what passes through. There is no resistance, no attraction. There is just the pond, water. There is just you, limitless love."

- Beth White

"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."

- Jonas Salk (1914-1995)

"Life's Lessons I learn, as the years roll onward And leave the past behind, That much I had counted sorrow But proves that God is kind; That many a flower I had longed for Had hidden a thorn of pain, And many a rugged bypath Led to fields of ripened grain. The clouds that cover sunshine They cannot banish the sun; And the earth shines out the brighter When the weary rain is done, We must stand in the deepest shadow To see the clearest light; And often through wrong's own darkness Comes the very strength of light."

- Author Unknown

"Happiness for me is to know that my life has meaning and purpose, and that every day my life touches others in a positive way - whether to make them laugh or learn or both at once."

- Deanna Mascle

"Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

- George Eliot (1819 –1880), Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story, Scenes of a Clerical Life, 1857

"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."

- Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.)

"You don't find happiness, you make happiness."

- David Leon Hardt

"Remember, there is not true happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."

- OG Mandino

"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be."

- Socrates

"THE LIGHT OF INTEGRITY The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the full light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day to day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way."

- Heraclitus, Greek poet, philosopher

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955)

"Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day."

- Mario Andretti

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

- Frederick Keonig

"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body."

- Henry David Thoreau